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.

ENGL 100

Introduction to Literary Study

Fall/Winter 2022/2023

ENGL 100-001

Christopher Fanning

Introduction to Literary Study

Modern Prose Fiction I: The Elements of Fiction

Modern Prose Fiction II: Pathways Through Fiction

History of Literature in English

Canadian Literature

Introduction to Indigenous Literatures in Canada

Selected Women Writers (post-1900)

Life Writing

True Crime Memoir

Authors in Context: Special Topics I

Jane Austen and her Contemporaries

Global Shakespeare

CANCELLED FALL 2022

Writing the City

Writing Memoir

Writing Memoir: Memoir and Migrancy

Summer 2022: Queen’s Global Summer Initiative

Literature and the Fantastic

Literature and the Environment

Environmentalism in (Post) Colonial Literature

Literature and Gender

Illness, Disability, and Gender in Modernist Literature

Literary Genres

Legends of King Arthur: Medieval to Modern

Issues and Themes in Canadian Literature I

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

Issues and Themes in Canadian Literature II

Decolonization in Canadian and Indigenous Science Fiction

Seminar in Literary Interpretation

Beowulf & Grendel

Seminar in Literary Interpretation

Milton's Paradise Lost

Seminar in Literary Interpretation

Moby Dick

Seminar in Literary Interpretation

Reading Chinese Canadian Fiction

Seminar in Literary Interpretation

T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land

Seminar in Literary Interpretation

The Tempest

Cultural Studies: Theory into Practice

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

Creative Writing I

Introduction to Literary Criticism and Theory I

Introduction to Literary Criticism and Theory II

The Northern World: Vikings and Saxons

Restoration & 18th-Century Literature

British Fiction of the 19th Century

19th-Century British Literature and Visual Culture

Modern Literature

Contemporary Literature

Context North America: Contemporary North America

Indigenous Literatures

Intermediate Writing in Prose

The Literary Screenplay: Adaption

Topics in Medieval Literature I

Medieval Monsters

Topics in Renaissance Literature I

Polarization in 16th Century Literature

Topics in Restoration and 18th Century Literature I

Literary London

Topics in Literature of Americas I

Before Harlem: 19th Century African American Literature

Topics in Victorian Literature

19th Century Gothic Literature

Topics in Victorian Literature

The 19th Century Novel and the Female Subject

Topics in Victorian Literature

Victorian Fairy Tales

Topics in Victorian Literature

Victorian Literature After Darwin

Topics in Modern/Contemporary Canadian Literature I

Controversial CanLit

Topics in Modern/Contemporary Canadian Literature I

The Scotiabank Giller Prize and Literary Prize Culture

Topics in Modern/Contemporary American Literature I

American Women Write the Short Story

Topics in Postcolonial Literature I

Zombies: A Post/Colonial History

Topics in Indigenous Literatures I Cancelled

Literature in a Scientific Age CANCELLED WINTER 2023