L.ENG 290 - Canadian Imagination-EC

Credits: 3

An introductory course in Canadian literature, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, with a focus on understanding the fundamental nature and conventions of literature as an art form and field of study, including the ways in which literature both reflects and shapes human experience. Students will engage with the literary works they read by asking questions and discussing them, by writing critical and personal essays, and also, in the case of poetry and drama, by memorizing and reciting poems and passages from plays using performance techniques. Authors may include Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, Sheila Heti, Northrop Frye, Daryl Hine, P. K. Page, George F. Walker, Anne-Marie MacDonald, Gabrielle Roy, Marie-Claire Blais, Tomson Highway, John Glassco, Thomas King, Michel Tremblay, Robertson Davies.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC