Courses Offered in 2024-25 and 2025-26

Below are lists of courses expected to be offered (subject to revision) in the 2024-25, and 2025-26  academic years, to help you with the planning of your degree. All other courses in the 200, 300, and 400 levels are offered on a rotating basis over a three-year period. The senior seminars are offered on a priority basis to senior Advanced Majors and Honours students. Other students interested in taking a senior seminar should inquire with the departmental chair, Dr. Joseph Khoury (jkhoury@stfx.ca) or the administrative assistant (@email) about availability and prerequisites.

Courses designated (P) fulfill the pre-1800 degree requirement, and those designated (PPC) fulfill the Postcolonial/Canadian requirement. Descriptions of each course are available on the English Department website. 

Notes: ENGL 100 or 111, or equivalent is required for entrance to all other ENGL courses.

Latest revision on December 6, 2023

Courses Expected to Be Offered in 2024-2025:

• ENGL 100(H) Introduction to Literature and Critical Writing
• ENGL 111 Literature and Academic Writing I
• ENGL 201 Science Fiction and Fantasy
• ENGL 208 Sex, Love, and Literature
• ENGL 215 Principles and Practices of Literary Criticism
• ENGL 223 Creative Writing: Nature, Ecology, Climate Change
• ENGL 226 From Tablets to Tablets: Texts and Technology
• ENGL 248 Climate Fiction and Environmental Literature
• ENGL 259 Gender, Literature and Culture
• ENGL 261 Hollywood Film
• ENGL 267 Introductory Creative Writing 
• ENGL 275 Shakespeare and Sex: Love and Lust
• ENGL 276 Shakespeare on War and Peace
• ENGL 278 Short Turns: The Short Story in Canada (PCC)
• ENGL 279 What’s Canadian about Canadian Literature? (PCC)
• ENGL 280 Introduction to Contemporary Multiethnic Literatures in the United States
• ENGL 297  Swords (new course) (P)
• ENGL 298: Special Topics: Shakespeare's Dark Comedies (P)
• ENGL 309 Film Noir
• ENGL 314 Contemporary Literary Theory
• ENGL 322 Intermediate Creative Writing
• ENGL 325 The American Novel, 1850-1940
• ENGL 347 The Aftermath of Slavery and 21st Century Black Literature: Reading Africa and the African Diaspora (PCC)
• ENGL 355 Restoration and 18th-Century Drama and Prose (P)
• ENGL 398 Special Topics: What Happened to Them Next? 
• ENGL 391 Selected Topics in Literature: TBD (P)
• ENGL 397 Selected Topics in Literature I: TBD
• ENGL 400 Honours Thesis
• ENGL 491 Selected Topics in Literature I: TBD (P) 
• ENGL 492 Selected Topics in Literature II: TBD
• ENGL 497 Advanced Major Thesis
• ENGL 499 Directed Study

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  Courses Expected to Be Offered in 2025-2026:

• ENGL 111 Literature and Academic Writing I
• ENGL 214 Contemporary Film
• ENGL 215 Principles and Practices of Literary Criticism
• ENGL 219 How to Tell a Story
• ENGL 225 Creative Writing for Young Adults
• ENGL 226 From Tablets to Tablets: Texts and Technology
• ENGL 233 Children’s Literature: 1865 to the Present
• ENGL 240 Literature of the Middle East
• ENGL 248 Climate Fiction and Environmental Literature
• ENGL 249 Detective Fiction and Film
• ENGL 253 Coffeehouse Culture of 18th Century England
• ENGL 257 The 21st Century American Novel
• ENGL 267 Introductory Creative Writing
• ENGL 269 Me You Us Them: Self & Society
• ENGL 270 The Romantic Gothic: Poetry and Short Fiction
• ENGL 277 Shakespeare’s Subversive Poetry: A Study of his Narrative Poems, Sonnets, and Love Lyrics
• ENGL 278 Short Turns: The Short Story in Canada
• ENGL 279 What’s Canadian about Canadian Literature?
• ENGL 282 Literatures of Global Justice: Human Rights, Asylum, Self-Determination
• ENGL 302 The Fantastic: Genre and Form
• ENGL 305 TBD
• ENGL 314 Contemporary Literary Theory
• ENGL 315 Fashion and Fetishism
• ENGL 338 Performing Canada
• ENGL 339 Cultural Theory and Popular Culture
• ENGL 356 18th-Century Novel and Poetry
• ENGL 400 Honours Thesis
• ENGL 491 Selected Topics in Literature I: TBD (P) 
• ENGL 492 Selected Topics in Literature II: TBD
• ENGL 497 Advanced Major Thesis
• ENGL 499 Directed Study