is an introduction to the use of English with emphasis on composition. This course is for students whose first language is not English and who have attained a standard acceptable to the University on an approved language proficiency exam such as IELTS, TOEFL or CAEL. Students completing this course may elect to use it with ENGL 1021 to fulfill the Bachelor of Arts Language Study Requirement.

develops skills in critical reading and writing of academic English, with emphasis on research and writing syntheses from sources, for non-native English-speaking students. Students successfully completing this course may elect to use it with ENGL 1020 to fulfill the Bachelor of Arts Language Study Requirement.

is a foundational course for all university programs undertaken at Memorial University of Newfoundland, since understanding how stories work is fundamental to all disciplines. This course focuses on the language we encounter in our reading and use to record our reading experiences. Emphasis is placed on critical reading and writing: analyzing texts, framing and using questions, constructing essays, organizing paragraphs, conducting research, quoting and documenting, revising and editing. All sections of this course follow Critical Reading and Writing Course Guidelines available at www.mun.ca/hss/crw.

is an examination of prose texts such as essays, articles and reviews. Students write for different purposes and audiences. Emphasis is placed on critical reading and writing: analyzing texts, framing and using questions, constructing essays, organizing paragraphs, conducting research, quoting and documenting, revising and editing. All sections of this course follow Critical Reading and Writing Course Guidelines available at www.mun.ca/hss/crw and build on foundational Critical Reading and Writing content delivered in ENGL 1090.

studies a variety of texts that explore the interaction between individual desires and social identities. Building on foundational critical reading and writing skills acquired in English 1090, students gain further experience with analyzing texts, framing and using questions, constructing essays, organizing paragraphs, conducting research, quoting and documenting, revising and editing. All sections of this course follow Critical Reading and Writing Course Guidelines available at www.mun.ca/hss/crw and build on foundational CRW content delivered in ENGL 1090. Bachelor of Arts students should normally choose the second Critical Reading and Writing course from a discipline listed in the Breadth of Knowledge Requirement, unless pursuing a Major or Minor in English.

studies a variety of texts that explore imaginary (or imaginatively reconstructed) places and the responses of the humans who inhabit them. Building on foundational critical reading and writing skills acquired in English 1090, students gain further experience with analyzing texts, framing and using questions, constructing essays, organizing paragraphs, conducting research, quoting and documenting, revising and editing. All sections of this course follow Critical Reading and Writing Course Guidelines available at www.mun.ca/hss/crw. Bachelor of Arts students should normally choose the second Critical Reading and Writing course from a discipline listed in the Breadth of Knowledge Requirement, unless pursuing a Major or Minor in English.

focuses on the process of reading, on specific strategies and approaches that we take in our encounters with texts and on the ways we report those encounters. Building on foundational critical reading and writing skills acquired in English 1090, students gain further experience analyzing texts, framing and using questions, constructing essays, organizing paragraphs, conducting research, quoting and documenting, revising and editing. All sections of this course follow Critical Reading and Writing Course Guidelines available at www.mun.ca/hss/crw. Bachelor of Arts students should normally choose the second Critical Reading and Writing course from a discipline listed in the Breadth of Knowledge Requirement, unless pursuing a Major or Minor in English.

is an introduction to the work of major authors by detailed study of selected texts. There is an emphasis on the various skills of essay writing.

is an introduction to the work of major authors by detailed study of selected texts. There is an emphasis on the various skills of essay writing.

is a survey of drama from the Greeks to the present day.

is a study of poetry, which aims to increase the student's critical understanding and appreciation of poetry, conducted through an examination of a wide variety of kinds and techniques.

aims to give the students an appreciation of the short story as a literary form. The course will deal with the nature, history and development of short fiction by considering a variety of authors and stories.

requires students to analyze published essays for their aims, strategies, and discourses. Students practice writing as a process of discovery in the context of a learning community: for instance identifying questions to explore, free-writing, finding a focus, drafting, peer-editing, revising, editing. Each student produces a portfolio of revised, edited work.

is a survey of twentieth-century musical theatre. Selected works, presenting different styles and periods, will be examined in detail. There will be a strong, required listening/viewing component to this course. The ability to read music is not required.

addresses contemporary literature consciously pre-occupied with global cultural identities and practices. The writers studied address transnational issues such as migration, environmental and human rights, travel and tourism, and the legacies of European colonialism. All sections of this course follow International Studies guidelines available at www.mun.ca/hss/IS.

is a study of representative Canadian fiction since 1930, including such authors as Ross, Buckler, Davies, Laurence, Atwood, Ondaatje and Findley.

is a study of fiction of Canadian writers since the 1970s.

will introduce Indigenous literature in a social, political and historical context. Beginning with the oral tradition (songs, narratives, legends, and orations), it will focus on different works by North American Indigenous writers: poetry, drama, short stories and novels.

is a survey of representative texts from 1800-1900.

is a survey of representative texts from 1900-2000.

is a survey of American fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry from the Revolution to the Civil War era.

is a survey of American fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry from the Civil War era to the end or the Second World War.

is a survey of American fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry from the end of the Second World War until the present.

is a practical introduction to the descriptive study of the English language with emphasis on syntax.

is a study of the early stages of the English Language: the Indo-European background; pronunciation and spelling, grammar, vocabulary and meaning in Old and Middle English.

is an introduction to principles of directing and acting, through lectures, discussion and stage production.

is an introduction to the fundamentals and vocabulary of design, lighting and stagecraft and film/ video craft, including sound, properties, etc.

is a study of the language and literature of the later medieval period, excluding Chaucer.

introduces the literary sub-genres of science fiction and fantasy. It examines the traditional canonical backgrounds from which popular literatures derive, studies the formulaic patterns and explores the place of science fiction and fantasy in popular culture.

will have topics to be studied announced by the Department.

introduces students to the field of visual culture and familiarizes them with both the vocabulary and the methodologies to examine images critically.

is an introduction to the study of contemporary theory and criticism with an emphasis on its application in the reading of literary texts.

introduces students to the critical analysis of film, focusing on how its elements create style and meaning.

develops students' visual literacy and introduces film theories focused on, for example, reproduction technologies and cultures of spectatorship.

will introduce students to the basic techniques and tools in the writer’s tool box in order to write original fiction, non-fiction and poetry. This course will explore examples of literature from these three genres and give students the opportunity to participate in peer-assessment and workshop critiques in order to develop the necessary skills for critical reading and creative writing.

is an examination of the development and role of the manuscript book during the Middle Ages. Topics covered will include book production and dissemination; authors, scribes and audiences; and various kinds of books (e.g. glossed Bibles, anthologies, books of hours, etc.) and their uses.

will study selections from the considerable corpus of women's writings in the Medieval and Early Modern period, as well as issues which affected women's writing. All selections will be read in English translation.

examines literary writing concerned with relationships between humans and the nonhuman world. Possible topics include human-animal relationships; Indigenous relationships to the land; social justice and environment; traditions of environmental writing in different time periods, locations, and genres; writing ecological catastrophe; imagining the Anthropocene.

is a study of the development of pre-Shakespearean drama, including representative cycle plays, morality plays, moral interludes, comedies, tragedies, folk plays, and royal entries.

is a study of the development of English drama (excluding Shakespeare) from 1580 to 1642.

is a study of eighteenth-century English novels by such authors as Burney, Defoe, Fielding, Manley, Richardson, Sterne and Smollett.

is a study of the development of Canadian literature from its beginnings to the end of World War I.

- inactive course.

is a study of literature from the island of Newfoundland with emphasis on representative writers since 1900.

is a study of a number of representative plays which illustrate the development of modern drama and theatre in Canada.

is a study of the development of Canadian literature from 1945 to 1970.

is a study of recent developments in Canadian literature.

involves the study of creative texts through postcolonial and critical race theories, attending to themes such as Black history and music, theories of Black writing, inter-racial relationships, and anti-racism.

offers a broad overview of works which respond to the global phenomenon of British imperialism, and its persistent international consequences. Utilizing a cross-continental comparative frame, the course addresses the question: what happens when cultures collide? All sections of this course follow International Studies guidelines available at www.mun.ca/hss/IS.

focuses on contemporary writing by established Australian authors. It pays particular attention to the after effects of colonialism and the formulation of national identities.

focuses on major Irish writers in at least two genres.

is a study of tragedies and romances such as Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth, Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest.

is a study of comedies and histories such as Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V.

is a study of plays by dramatists from a range of periods, organized by theme.

is a study of novels and/or short fiction from various periods in American history, organized by theme.

is a study or poetry and verse from various periods in American history, organized by theme.

focuses on the literature produced within a particular political or cultural community in the United States, such as African-American, Hispanic, Asian, Indigenous, feminist, LGBTQ, proletarian, and/or socialist.

investigates the rich literary history of hard-boiled fiction through representative texts and critically explores how hardboiled aesthetic practices continue to get nuanced in relation to changing socioeconomic contexts.

will have topics to be studied announced by the Department.

examines the interrelationships among folklore forms and literary genres, the influence of oral traditions on written literatures, and the theoretical issues raised by these interrelationships. The primary emphasis is on the interpretation of literature from the perspective of folk tradition.

introduces students to the basic elements of Old English grammar and vocabulary through the practice of translating one or more texts from Old English into modern English and the study of the Old English corpus in modern translations.

is a study of representative poems.

is available only as part of the Harlow Campus semester.

considers the various ways the text has been read; as escapist fantasy: as a moral guide, as a political treatise, as a religious tract, as ecological doctrine.

will have topics to be studied announced by the Department.

examines films from various imperial, colonial, national and diasporic cinemas in the context of debates about what constitutes a national cinema.

draws on a variety of writing to examine questions related to the study of gender. Possible topics may include the changing constructions of gender and the intersections of gender with race, class, nationality and sexuality.

offers an introduction to the Gothic mode in a selection of texts from the eighteenth century to the present. Topics covered may include the Gothic’s recurrent themes of sin, sex, violence, and religion; its subversive response to dominant cultures and historical contexts; and its philosophical roots in sensibility, horror, and the sublime.

focuses on the poetry of Newfoundland and Labrador. While the work of early writers will be considered, the emphasis is on the poetry of the twentieth century and of our own century.

explores the ways medieval sources are represented in modern films, and how modern cultural and political concerns influence how these medieval sources are presented. Through a selection of medieval films and their historical and literary inspirations, we will see how films shape our present-day concepts of history, identity, freedom, knowledge, and creativity.

is a course setting women writers in the context of literary history.

will have topics to be studied announced by the Department.

will familiarize students with the study of comics. This course will examine a large selection of comics and current theoretical debates surrounding the relation between word and image, in general, and the workings of graphic narrative, in particular.

will examine the development of science fiction from its beginnings to the present day. It will consider some of the major authors, theories, forms and concerns that have been the focus of the genre.

introduces one of the world's most iconic and instantly recognizable genres. This course explores the fictional frontiers of the Wild West through classics and variants of the genre, showcasing examples that both establish and question myths of the West. In situating the texts alongside historical developments and changing attitudes, the course also situates them regionally along East-West/North-South axes, considering too the Western's position in Western literature.

is conducted as a workshop using models of contemporary writing and the students' own work. Each student will be required to submit work regularly.

is conducted as a workshop using models of contemporary writing and the students' own work. Each student will be required to submit work regularly.

is conducted as a workshop using models of contemporary dramatic writing and the students’ own work. Each student will be required to submit work regularly.

is conducted as a workshop using models of contemporary writing and the students’ own work. Each student will be required to submit work regularly.

is conducted as an online workshop for writers interested in exploring the possibilities for engaging with place through writing creative non-fiction.

students create their own foundational oral storytelling repertoire through a combination of storytelling practice and performance; learning to identify and use a range of oral storytelling techniques; peer response and workshopping; and readings (including contemporary and traditional Indigenous and non-Indigenous modes of the genre).

will permit students to learn to draft and edit short investigative pieces; and they complete an article or essay, and an investigative project that attends to ethics guidelines, research, documentation, interviewing protocols, and writing and editing for a specific context. The course is conducted as a seminar using the students’ own work. Each student will be required to submit work regularly. Some work may be done collaboratively.

uses models from early ballads to contemporary hits and near-misses as a basis for students’ own work. Guest songwriters will be invited to meet with students to discuss their compositions. Students will analyse song lyrics, write their own songs and collaborate on a major class project. The ability to sing or play a musical instrument or to read or write sheet music, while desirable, is not required.

develops the student’s ability to speak on all occasions, formal and informal, expected and unexpected. Students will deliver speeches of varying types and lengths on a regular basis throughout the semester.

focuses on the prose and poetry of representative authors of the period and provides a critical overview of the literary, historical, social, political, and religious context.

focuses on the prose and poetry of representative authors of the period and provides a critical overview of the literary, historical, social, political, and religious context.

is a study of selected works by such authors as Dryden, Swift, Pope, Fielding, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu.

is a study of selected works by such authors as Boswell, Burney, Johnson, Smollett, and Sterne.

is an advanced seminar that studies late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century texts in their environmental, social, political, and cultural contexts.

is a study of selected works by such writers as Carlyle, Dickens, Tennyson, the Brownings, and the Brontës.

is a study of selected works by such writers as Thackeray, Gaskell, George Eliot, Arnold, and the Rossettis.

is a study of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century texts in their social, historical, and cultural contexts.

is a study of representative texts from 1920-1945 in their social, historical, and cultural contexts.

is a study of representative texts from World War II to the present in their social, historical, and cultural contexts.

is a survey of critical approaches to literature, from Plato to the end of the nineteenth century. Students are advised to take this course towards the end of their program.

is a survey of critical approaches to literature in the twentieth century. Students are advised to take this course towards the end of their program.

is an advanced course focusing on such plays as King John, Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V, 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, Richard III, Henry VIII.

is an advanced course focusing on such plays as Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Troilus and Cressida, Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, Cymbeline.

is an advanced seminar in early American literature focused on a key issue, concept, literary movement, or author.

is an advanced seminar in contemporary American literature focused on a key issue, concept, literary movement, or author.

will have topics to be studied announced by the Department.

examines representative plays from Ibsen to the present day, principally of the realist tradition.

examines representative twentieth-century plays from the traditions of expressionism, surrealism, and the theatre of the absurd.

is a study of representative dramatic works of contemporary British drama.

is the analysis, production plans and execution of selected projects.

is a full semester working with a selected play, to culminate in public performance. Students will be required to participate fully in all aspects of the production, except direction, which will be the responsibility of the instructor.

is field-work and transcription; modern linguistic geography; structuralist dialectology; occupational dialects; other recent approaches.

is about how your writing compares to other people's. This course is an opportunity to understand the meaning not only of what you write, but also how. The meaning is sometimes political on a large scale, so we will also learn various methods of measuring styles.

is a detailed study of one or more major texts in Old English, depending on student interest.

is an in-depth study of some of the major writers of the fourteenth century.

is a study of representative texts of the medieval romance genre from the twelfth to the fifteenth century.

will have topics to be studied announced by the Department.

explores post-war, mid-twentieth-century literary works and their filmic adaptations that capture the socio-economic frustrations of the working class (mostly youth) in England, as well as their anger-fuelled ideological commitments to socialist ideals and the anarchistic undermining of figures of institutional authority.

will have topics to be studied announced by the Department.

is a study of representative literary utopias and dystopias, both classic and modern.

examines how island spaces are conceived in both historical and contemporary literary texts. Figured as utopias and dystopias, paradises and penitentiaries, islands have long proved a rich and malleable imaginative terrain for creative writers.

is a study of some of the main concepts in Canadian culture up to World War II as they affect the history and development of Canadian Literature.

is a study of some of the main concepts in Canadian culture since World War II as they affect the history and development of Canadian Literature.

examines a broad spectrum of autobiographical comics taking into account theoretical developments in both comics’ studies and autobiographical studies.

examines a broad spectrum of graphic illness narratives across various media taking into account theoretical developments in comics studies, autobiographical studies, and graphic medicine.

is a seminar course in contemporary Canadian poetry. Students will have the opportunity to study collections by six English Canadian contemporary poets - not just new work by established older writers, but also first collections by younger writers. The work of poets from across Canada will be chosen.

will examine Canada’s early exploration and travel literature and show how it has shaped our contemporary fiction. Early texts may be studied from an anthology of exploration writings, such as Germaine Warkentin's Canadian Exploration Literature: An Anthology. Several contemporary novels will also be studied and may include Wayne Johnston's The Navigator of New York and John Steffler's The Afterlife of George Cartwright.

will have topics to be studied announced by the Department.

is an introduction to bibliographical and textual studies to 1800. Areas covered may include the book as a material object; the history of the book; manuscripts; the spread of printing; the hand-press period; editing of texts; the evolution of the library; origins of intellectual property; freedom of the press; aspects of literary detection, forgery and plagiarism.

is an introduction to bibliographical and textual studies from 1800 to the present day. Areas covered may include the book as a material object; the history of the book; machine-press period; industrialization of printing; globalization of the book trade; intellectual property and copyright; electronic book; digital literacy; digital literatures.

is a workshop for students who wish to write publishable literary fiction. Students will be expected to produce at least 15,000 words during the semester. Regular participation is also required.

is conducted as a workshop uses models of contemporary writing and the students' own work. This course is designed to develop further the technical skill of those students who have reached a high level of achievement in the introductory creative writing course in poetry, English 3901 (or who have a body of work of exceptional accomplishment) and to help them move towards publication in literary journals and chapbooks.

is conducted as a workshop using models of contemporary dramatic writing and the students' own work. Each student will be required to submit work regularly.

is conducted as a seminar using models of contemporary writing and the students’ own work. Each student will be required to submit work regularly.

will have topics to be studied announced by the Department.

is required as part of the Honours program.

is a 3 credit hour course which occurs upon completion of course work in the Diploma in Stage and Screen Technique. The curriculum emphasis is on the application of acquired skills. Continuing the project-oriented structure built into the practical courses, students will be placed with existing projects in the professional communities of film, television, theatre or video.

considers critical issues and approaches in the study of popular culture. It will explore the ways in which everyone is both a user of and is used by popular culture. A variety of critical approaches to studying popular culture will be examined: Production, Texts, Audience, and History.

provides an introduction to theoretical approaches to organization, use and manipulation of language, including semiotics, performativity, mass and group communications, sociolinguistics and interpersonal communication. We will examine notions of influence, rhetoric, social judgment, deception, subject formation, globalization and cultural hybridity within the field of communications.

provides an introduction to the critical study of video games and gaming. Classes will survey the history of games and play in relation to topics such as game design, ethics, industry, gender, race, and emerging technologies.

introduces students to the field of visual culture and familiarizes them with both the vocabulary and the methodologies to examine images critically.

explores the historical, technological, economic and social dynamics associated with the rise of social media.

explores the theoretical, representational, and experiential intersections between modern media and urban cultures. The course will foreground how recent media theory has been shaped by important theoretical works in the study of urban societies.

explores the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence to understand its impact on society. The course will examine AI and the controversies that surround its use in relation to communication, media production, politics, labour, and surveillance.

will have topics to be studied announced by the Program Director.

is an introduction to the principles of television production.

develops the student’s ability to speak on all occasions, formal and informal, expected and unexpected. Students will deliver speeches of varying types and lengths on a regular basis throughout the semester.

engages communication theories, such as interpersonal, organizational, intercultural, or international communication, seeking to understand how and why mediated communication works have found their explanatory power to be useful. The course will aim to analyze various communication theories, apply communication theories to everyday life, write a theoretical literature review, and form sound hypotheses or focused research questions to advance theory.

examines the ways visual culture shapes and is shaped by communication forms and processes.

explores the representational, technological, industrial, and socio-political dynamics associated with ecocritical media studies.

examines the history of media piracy and its influence on media consumption and production, copyright law, and internet regulation. Classes will critically examine media piracy and copyright law across a variety of media industries (publishing, music, video games, film, and television) to explore their legal, social, political, economic, ethical, and cultural implications.

will have topics to be studied announced by the Program Director.

is a full semester working on a selected project, to culminate in the creation of a completed video. Students, working in groups, established by the Diploma in Stage and Screen Technique Program Director, will be required to participate in all aspects of production.

is a one-semester (3 credit hours) internship for senior students in Communication Studies. The purpose of the course is to provide students with opportunities to apply and explore course concepts in various workplace settings. Internships entail a total of 70 hours of fieldwork carried out over the semester. Possible placements include work/training in advertising, public relations, communication coordination, social media marketing, and journalism.

examines a broad spectrum of autobiographical comics taking into account theoretical developments in both comics’ studies and autobiographical studies.

examines a broad spectrum of graphic illness narratives across various media taking into account theoretical developments in comics studies, autobiographical studies, and graphic medicine.