Courses Offered in 2025-26 and 2026-27

Below are lists of courses expected to be offered (subject to revision) in the 2025-26, and 2026-27  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 (PCC) fulfill the Postcolonial/Canadian requirement. Please note that in addition to these courses, ENGL 391, 392, 397, 491, or 492 may also be considered in some years. 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 July 9, 2024

Courses Expected to Be Offered in 2025-2026:

• ENGL 100(H) Introduction to Literature and Critical Writing
• ENGL 111 Literature and Academic Writing I
• ENGL 213 Adaptation: Canadian Myths, Film, and Popular Stories
• ENGL 214 Contemporary Film
• ENGL 215 Principles and Practices of Literary Criticism
• ENGL 219 How to Tell a Story
• ENGL 225 Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults
• ENGL 226 From Tablets to Tablets: Texts and Technology
• ENGL 233 Children’s Literature: 1865 to the Present
• ENGL 248 Climate Fiction and Environmental Literature
• ENGL 249 Detective Fiction and Film
• ENGL 253 Coffeehouse Culture of 18th Century England (P)
• ENGL 257 The 21st Century American Novel
• ENGL 259 Gender, Literature and Culture
• ENGL 267 Introductory Creative Writing 
• ENGL 270 The Romantic Gothic: Poetry and Short Fiction
• ENGL 278 Short Turns: The Short Story in Canada (PCC)
• ENGL 279 What’s Canadian about Canadian Literature? (PCC)
• ENGL 282 Literatures of Global Justice: Human Rights, Asylum, Self-Determination (PCC)
• ENGL 290 The Canterbury Tales (P)
• ENGL 302 The Fantastic: Genre and Form
• ENGL 314 Contemporary Literary Theory
• ENGL 315 Fashion and Fetishism
• ENGL 322 Intermediate Creative Writing
• ENGL 329 Studies in Women Writers: Feminisms and Their Literatures
• ENGL 338 Performing Canada (PCC)
• ENGL 339 Cultural Theory and Popular Culture
• ENGL 356 18th-Century Novel and Poetry
• ENGL 391 Selected Topics in Literature: TBD 
• ENGL 397 Selected Topics in Literature I: TBD
• ENGL 400 Honours Thesis
• ENGL 491 Selected Topics in Literature I: TBD 
• 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 2026-2027:

• ENGL 111 Literature and Academic Writing I
• ENGL 201 Science Fiction and Fantasy
• ENGL 208 Sex, Love, and Literature
• ENGL 210 Bodies and Words
• ENGL 213 Adaptation: Canadian Myths, Film, and Popular Stories
• 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 236 Children’s Film and Television
• ENGL 240 Literature of the Middle East (PCC)
• ENGL 248 Climate Fiction and Environmental Literature
• ENGL 249 Detective Fiction and Film
• ENGL 253 Coffeehouse Culture of 18th Century England (P)
• ENGL 257 The 21st Century American Novel
• ENGL 258 Television Today
• ENGL 261 Hollywood Film
• 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 (P)
• ENGL 278 Short Turns: The Short Story in Canada (PCC)
• ENGL 279 What’s Canadian about Canadian Literature? (PCC)
• ENGL 282 Literatures of Global Justice: Human Rights, Asylum, Self-Determination (PCC)
• ENGL 301 European Film
• ENGL 302 The Fantastic: Genre and Form
• ENGL 305 The Later Elizabethan Renaissance
• ENGL 314 Contemporary Literary Theory
• ENGL 315 Fashion and Fetishism
• ENGL 316 How to Judge a Book By its Cover
• ENGL 334 The Western
• ENGL 338 Performing Canada (PCC)
• ENGL 339 Cultural Theory and Popular Culture
• ENGL 347 The Afterlives of Slavery & 21st Century Black Narrative: Reading Africa and the African Diaspora (PCC)
• ENGL 356 18th-Century Novel and Poetry (P)
• ENGL 391 Selected Topics in Literature: TBD 
• ENGL 397 Selected Topics in Literature I: TBD
• ENGL 400 Honours Thesis
• ENGL 491 Selected Topics in Literature I: TBD 
• ENGL 492 Selected Topics in Literature II: TBD
• ENGL 497 Advanced Major Thesis
• ENGL 499 Directed Study