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English Undergraduate Courses

Queen’s English offers small classes at every level of the program.

In this program, you feel a sense of community among students, while also having a wide range of courses to choose from.

We offer a number of Creative Writing courses, all of which can count toward English degrees.

From popular forms like children’s and YA literature to the classics, from Canadian authors to English-language texts from around the world, from medieval poetry to texts written this year, and including many LGBTQ+ and BIPOC voices, you will be able both to follow your interests and discover new ones!

For more questions, please feel free to contact us.

Scrabble board with title of The Elements of Literature

ENGL 100

Introduction to Literary Study

Fall/Winter 2022/2023
Elements of Literature

ENGL 100

Introduction to Literary Study

Summer 2022

ENGL 100

Introduction to Literary Study

Fall/Winter 2022/2023
The Elements of Fiction

ENGL 161

Modern Prose Fiction I: The Elements of Fiction

Fall 2022
Pathways through Fiction

ENGL 162

Modern Prose Fiction II: Pathways Through Fiction

Winter 2023
Open boob with a 3D picture of a Dog and person walking with a red umbrella

ENGL 200

History of Literature in English

Fall/Winter 2022/2023
Upward shot of a library with a big glass window at the top
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ENGL 200

History of Literature in English

Fall 2022
Winter 2023
Poster with different true crime books

ENGL 235

Life Writing (True Crime Memoir)

Winter 2023
The first volume of a book by Jane Austen

ENGL 251

Authors in Context: Special Topics I

Jane Austen and her Contemporaries

Winter 2023
Two men in a mock fight with shields and sticks for a Macbeth production
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ENGL 259

Global Shakespeare

Beyond the Bard

Fall 2022
Luggage

CWRI 272

Writing Memoir: Memoir and Migrancy

Summer 2022: Queen’s Global Summer Initiative

Summer 2022
Environmental Justice Atlas: Multinational Oil Companies on the Niger Delta, Nigeria

ENGL 276

Literature and the Environment

Environmentalism in (Post) Colonial Literature

Winter 2023
Image credit: Edvard Munch, Self-Portrait with the Spanish Flu (1919)

ENGL 277

Literature and Gender

Illness, Disability, and Gender in Modernist Literature

Fall 2022
A hand reaching out to catch a light bulb that is turned on

CWRI 281

Creative Writing I

Fall 2021
Winter 2022
Fall 2022
Red leaf laying on top of an open book

ENGL 284

Issues and Themes in Canadian Literature I

Marginalized Voices in Can Lit: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality

Fall 2022
Artwork by Tsista Kennedy (Anishinaabe), member of Indigenous Friends Association (who features his artwork)
Image taken from https://globalvoices.org/2021/01/21/first-nations-artist-explores-indigenous-futurisms-in-his-woodland-style-work/

ENGL 285

Issues and Themes in Canadian Literature II

Decolonization in Canadian and Indigenous Science Fiction

Winter 2023
Dragon

ENGL 290

Seminar in Literary Interpretation

Beowulf & Grendel

Fall 2022
An illustration from Paradise Lost

ENGL 290

Seminar in Literary Interpretation

Milton's Paradise Lost

Winter 2023
A big whale on the short with a few people around it

ENGL 290

Seminar in Literary Interpretation

Moby Dick

Fall 2022
China Town Story Telling Centre

ENGL 290

Seminar in Literary Interpretation

Reading Chinese Canadian Fiction

Winter 2023

ENGL 290

Seminar in Literary Interpretation

T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land

Fall 2022
A shipwrecked boat

ENGL 290

Seminar in Literary Interpretation

The Tempest

Winter 2023
9 images of Taylor Swift's album covers

ENGL 294

Cultural Studies: Theory into Practice

Taylor Swift’s Literary Legacy (Taylor’s Version)

Fall 2022
Big puffy cloud in the sky

ENGL 296

Introduction to Literary Criticism and Theory I

Fall 2022
Old typewriter

ENGL 297

Introduction to Literary Criticism and Theory II

Winter 2023
Seascape

ENGL 306

The Northern World: Vikings and Saxons

Fall/Winter 2022/2023
Older picture of a town overlooking water

ENGL 330

Restoration & 18th-Century Literature

Fall/Winter 2022/2023
Painting of a shipwreck

ENGL 356

British Fiction of the 19th Century

Fall/Winter 2022/2023
19-century photograph of women

ENGL 357

19th-Century British Literature and Visual Culture

Fall/Winter 2022/2023

ENGL 360

Modern Literature

Fall/Winter 2022/2023
Corner of a bedroom with a window

ENGL 370

Contemporary Literature

Fall/Winter 2022/2023
Why Indigenous literatures matter cover page

ENGL 389

Context North America: Contemporary North America

Indigenous Literatures

Fall 2022
Ripples in a lake

CWRI 393

Intermediate Writing in Prose

Fall 2021
Winter 2022
Fall 2022
Winter 2023
photo that says storytelling

CWRI 397

The Literary Screenplay: Adaption

Winter 2023
Creature in the woods

ENGL 411

Topics in Medieval Literature I

Medieval Monsters

Winter 2023

ENGL 421

Topics in Renaissance Literature I

Polarization in 16th Century Literature

Fall 2022
Older grey and black picture of London

ENGL 431

Topics in Restoration and 18th Century Literature I

Literary London

Fall 2022
Douglass Day Poster

ENGL 446

Topics in Literature of Americas I

Before Harlem: 19th Century African American Literature

Winter 2023

ENGL 451

Topics in Victorian Literature

19th Century Gothic Literature

Winter 2023

ENGL 451

Topics in Victorian Literature

The 19th Century Novel and the Female Subject

Fall 2022

ENGL 451

Topics in Victorian Literature

Victorian Fairy Tales

Fall 2022
An elderly man with his finger up to his mouth

ENGL 451

Topics in Victorian Literature

Victorian Literature After Darwin

Winter 2023
Toronto streetcorner

ENGL 466

Topics in Modern/Contemporary Canadian Literature I

Diaspora Writing in Toronto

Fall 2022

ENGL 466

Topics in Modern/Contemporary Canadian Literature I

Controversial CanLit

Fall 2022
Scotiabank Giller

ENGL 466

Topics in Modern/Contemporary Canadian Literature I

The Scotiabank Giller Prize and Literary Prize Culture

Winter 2023
Mountain from car window

ENGL 467

Topics in Modern/Contemporary Canadian Literature II: The Literary Road Trip

Winter 2022
A black and white photo of a woman

ENGL 471

Topics in Modern/Contemporary American Literature I

American Women Write the Short Story

Winter 2023
Romero’s Night of the Living Dead and a image US Occupation of Haiti

ENGL 476

Topics in Postcolonial Literature I

Zombies in Post Colonial Literature

Fall 2022

ENGL 481

Topics in Indigenous Literatures I

Ancestors Speak: Uncovering Indigenous Stories Through Archival Research

Fall 2022
Protest

ENGL 486

Group III: Special Topics I

Literature in the Anthropocene

Fall 2022
Graphic novel on a table

ENGL 486

Group III: Special Topics I

The Graphic Novel: Visualizing History and Bearing Witness to Trauma

Winter 2023
A girl surrounded by fish being kissed by a skunk

ENGL 491

Topics in Literary Interpretation I

Humans (and Other Animals)

Fall 2022

ENGL 491

Topics in Literary Interpretation I

Literature in a Scientific Age

Winter 2023
Two foot prints in purple

ENGL 491

Topics in Literary Interpretation I

The Literature of Walking

Winter 2023
Island floating above mountains with a purple sky and yellow big sun

ENGL 491

Topics in Literary Interpretation I

Utopias and Dystopias

Fall 2022
Banana and eggplant

ENGL 497

Topics in Literary Criticism and Theory II

Queer Theory

Winter 2023

Department of English, Queen's University

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