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English

King’s University College Western University
London, OntarioCanada
On campus
Full-time
€68,948.21total
 7256 Points
Duration
4 Years
Language
English

Program Description

King’s English programs provide the pleasures and challenges of reading closely literary texts of our own time and many other periods and places. We offer courses in all the major historical periods of English, from medieval through contemporary; national literatures in English, including British, Canadian, American, and Postcolonial; courses in literary theory, drama, popular literature, film, children's literature, creative writing, and more.

In our small classes and seminars, our students acquire knowledge and skills in analysis, writing, and public speaking. Our graduates thereby prepare themselves for careers in, for example, education, publishing, law, marketing, media and communication, public relations, business, and industry.

In addition, the study of English allows us, as Wallace Stevens put it, to find ourselves "more truly and more strange." Come study with us, and see how reading, writing, and thinking about literature can cultivate a lifetime of curiosity, wonder, and pleasure.

From the 2nd year, students can pursue a major, minor or specialization.

There may be additional costs by this University.

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Curriculum

Understanding Literature Today

The study of literature is a way to encounter, understand, and critique our world. Literature presents us with new worlds and unknown others—both human and non-human. In these encounters, we confront, reshape, and grapple with important questions about what it means to be human, live in communities, form identities, and create meaningful and good lives.

Forms of Fiction: Introduction to Narrative

This is a course about two things: storytelling, and learning to be analytical about it, on the one hand, and expressing oneself eloquently once one has acquired these analytical skills, on the other.

The Storyteller’s Art I/II

Is the Internet making us smarter or stupider? Have we sacrificed in-depth analysis for informational breadth? This two-part linked course investigates the impact of new technologies on the storyteller’s art. If storytelling defines who we are and how we relate to the world, what is the status of storytelling in a digital age?

What are the effects of technology on our reading practices and our writing practices? More broadly, ENG1027/8 examines the relevance of the liberal arts as a discipline in an increasingly technocratic world.

Crime Writing Since the Eighteenth Century

Literary representations of crime both reflect and influence changing notions of criminality, policing and justice. This course will trace developments in crime writing in English from the 18th century to the present. Among the sub-genres to be considered are criminal biographies, Newgate novels, detective fiction, true-crime novels, and serial-killer narratives.

Psychology and Literature: Tormented Minds, Twisted Texts

This course investigates the connections between literary story-telling and psychological storytelling, between stories that authors tell about characters and the stories that we tell about ourselves. Examining key psychoanalytical literary texts, this course considers the extent to which psychoanalytic theory employs literary to explain the workings of the unconscious.

Water and Civilization: Literature, Ecology, Activism

This course examines non-fictional accounts of the relationship between water (its management and mythology) and the development of diverse civilizations. This course alternates between historical examples from around the world and a specific focus on the Great Lakes Basin, including a group project for improving the ecology of the Thames.

Shakespeare

Shakespeare remains one of the most influential of English writers. This course studies twelve plays across a range of genres. Instructors may integrate theatre-oriented exercises and/or other dramatic or non-dramatic material, depending on individual emphasis. When possible, the teaching program will include an autumn theatre trip.

Twentieth-Century Drama

The modern period is marked by a number of social, political, and aesthetic tensions. How does theatre remain relevant amidst these pressures, especially as the stage gives way first to the cinema, then to the TV screen, and now to the internet? We will look at texts both canonical and non-canonical, spanning 1890 to the present day.

American Women Writers: 1800 to Present

This course will examine the diverse range of American women's writing and their contributions to the American tradition from the nineteenth century to the present. Representative writers will be studied, with emphasis on major figures such as Fuller, Alcott, Harper, Jewett, Gilman, Wharton, Cather, Welty, Angelou, H.D., Rich, and Morrison.

Creative Writing Workshop

A workshop intended to develop skills in creative writing through individually supervised assignments.

Seminar in Literary Studies: Studies in Solitude and Isolation

This senior seminar examines the cultural relevance of solitude and isolation from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century, from a psychological, philosophical, religious, aesthetic, and political perspective.

Possible texts may include Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, Rousseau’s Reveries of the Solitary Walker, Thoreau's Walden, Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, Maysles' Grey Gardens, and Krakauer’s Into the Wild

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