Course outlines
Graduate course outlines include descriptions, objectives, required readings, late submission policies, information about assignments and more. All are designed to enable you to plan for and get the most out of your graduate-level course. Browse by year and semester below to find the course outline that you need.
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Fall 2024:
- CULTRST 732 – Foundations in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
- ENGLISH 702A/B – Doctoral Research Seminar
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 710 – Decolonial, Anti-Racist, and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning Otherwise
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 730 – Indigenous Literature of North America
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 734 – Appropriation and Canadian Literature: History, Theory, Controversies
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 775 – Topics in South Asian Literature and Culture
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 792 – Life Writing & Health in the 21st Century
- ENGLISH 798 – Language and Metaphor
Winter 2025:
- CULTRST 733 – Problems in Cultural Studies
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 712 – Future is Indigiqueer: Two Spirit and Trans Writings from Indigenous North America
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 729 – Cultural Studies and the Politics of Cultural Pedagogy
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 761 – Framing Can Lit
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 780 – Engendering the (Queer, Trans, Nonbinary) Early Modern Stage: Then and Now
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 786 – The Novel of Now: Or, How Artists Speak Back to States of Civil Violence and War
- ENGLISH 799A/B – Critical and Creative Approaches to Literary Studies: Sharing Knowledges in/with/for Communities
Spring 2025:
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 770 – Queer Caribbean Writing: Sex, Gender, Politics
Fall 2023
- CULTRST 732 – Foundations in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
- ENGLISH 702A/B – Doctoral Research Seminar
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 710 – Decolonial, Anti-Racist, and Anti-Oppressive Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning Otherwise
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 711– Celebrity/Culture
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 717 – Global Sex
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 748 – Last Things: Life and Death in the Anthropocene
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 780 – Engendering the (Queer, Trans, Non-Binary) – Transnational Early Modern Stage: Then and Now
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 781 – Public Mourning in Canada: What Makes a Life Grievable?
Winter 2024
- CULTRST 733– Problems in Cultural Studies
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 708 – Selfie/Culture
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 721 – Writing, Land, and Place
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 743 – Reimagining Nature: Science and Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 791 – Rethinking Politics: Thinking Past War, Democracy, and Terror
- ENGLISH 799A/B – Critical and Creative Approaches to Literary Studies: Sharing Knowledges in/with/for Communities
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 782 – Seed Stories of Indigenous and Black Survivance
Spring 2024
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 758 – Literature as Witness
Fall 2022
- CULTRST 732 (PDF) – Foundations in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 717 (PDF) – Global Sex
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 746 (PDF) – American Counterculture Literature, 1950-2001: Beat, Hippie, Punk
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 747 (PDF) – Discourses of Empire 1700-1820
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 758 (PDF) – Literature as Witness
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 780 – Engendering the (Queer, Trans, Non-Binary) – Transnational Early Modern Stage: Then and Now
- ENGLISH 798 (PDF) – Language and Metaphor
Winter 2023
- CULTRST 733 (PDF) – Problems in Cultural Studies
- ENGLISH 701 (PDF) – Visionary Women
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 748 (PDF) – Last Things: Life and Death in the Anthropocenes
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 752 (PDF) – Trans-Atlantic Indigeneity: Indigenous Literary Presence in Europe
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 773 (PDF) – “Revolt and Remember”: Resilience in the Postcolonial Environmental Humanities
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 776 (PDF) – Community Engaged Narrative Arts
- ENGLISH 799A/B (PDF) – English in/for/with Communities: Creating Public-Facing Projects
Spring 2023
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 770 (PDF) – Queer Caribbean Writing: Sex, Gender, Politics
Fall 2021
- CULTRST 732 (PDF) – Foundations in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 711 (PDF) – Celebrity Culture: Celebrity / Activism
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 708 (PDF) – Selfie/Culture
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 752 (PDF) – Trans-Atlantic Indigeneity: Indigenous Literary Presence in Europe
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 755 (PDF) – Neoliberalism and the Limits of the Social
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 770 (PDF) – Queer Caribbean Writing: Sex, Gender, Politics
Winter 2022
- CULTRST 733 (PDF) – Problems in Cultural Studies
- ENGLISH 701 (PDF) – Visionary Women
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 734 (PDF) – Appropriation and Canadian Literature: History, Theory, Controversies
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 737 (PDF) – Speaking Pictures: Emblems, Metaphor and Language in Early Modern Writing
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 743 (PDF) – Reimagining Nature: Science and Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 768 (PDF) – Settler Colonial Ways of Seeing
- ENGLISH/CULTRST 775 (PDF) – South Asian/Postcolonial Literature and Theory
Fall 2020
- CULTRST 732 (PDF) – Foundations in Cultural Studies and Critical Theory
- English/CULTRST 706 (PDF) – Fugitive Lives: Documentary Form, Archival Work, and the Demands of the Past
- English/CULTRST 721 (PDF) – Writing, Land, and Place
- English/CULTRST 730 (PDF) – Indigenous Literature of North America
- English/CULTRST 743 (PDF) – Reimagining Nature: Science and Empire in the Long Eighteenth Century
- English/CULTRST 748 (PDF) – Last Things: Life and Death amid the Anthropocenes
- English/CULTRST 758 (PDF) – Literature as Witness
Winter 2021
- CULTRST 733 (PDF) – Problems in Cultural Studies
- English/CULTRST 708 (PDF) – Selfie/Culture
- English/CULTRST 711 (PDF) – Celebrity/Culture
- English/CULTRST 757 (PDF) – Gender, Civility, and Courtliness in Early Modern Europe
- English/CULTRST 761 (PDF) – Framing Can Lit
- English/CULTRST 781 (PDF) – Public Mourning in Canada: What Makes a Life Grievable
- English/CULTRST 791 (PDF) – Rethinking Politics: Thinking Past War, Democracy, and Terror