This version of the McGill Department of English, Undergraduate Studies site is deprecated but has been preserved for archival reasons. The information on this site is not up to date and should not be consulted. Students, faculty, and staff should consult the new site using the link below.
The appearance of a course on these lists of recommended courses does not guarantee that the Department running this course and the instructor will grant permission to a student from Cultural Studies to take this course in 2015-16; please always inquire about the feasibility of taking these courses this academic year. Please also verify the term (Fall or Winter) on the Minerva system, as scheduling may change.
There might be other courses in the Faculty of Arts for which you could receive Cultural Studies program credit. If you feel you have identified a course with a strong Cultural Studies methodology and/or list of readings, you must show your advisor the course syllabus in advance and, if he or she agrees, get the advisor’s initialled approval of the course on your program Audit Sheet.
Please verify the terms in which courses are offered (Fall or Winter) on the Department of English website: https://www.mcgill.ca/english/undergrad/2016-2017-undergraduate-courses
Other ENGL courses than those listed here may sometimes fulfill the program requirements given below. If you note a course not listed that seems to fulfill a given requirement, please see an advisor.
Theory and Criticism:
317: Theory of English Studies 1: Philosophical Approaches (Winter)
318: Theory of English Studies 2: Sociohistorical Approaches (Fall)
319: Theory of English Studies 3 (Fall)
352: Theories of Difference (Winter)
Major Figure:
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
345: Shakespeare and Modernity (Fall)
381: French Feminist Filmmakers (Winter)
383: Kennedys (Winter)
410: Ondaatje and Atwood (Fall)
414: David Foster Wallace (Winter)
440: First Nations and Inuit Literature and Media—Ipellie (Winter)
483: Seminar in the Film: Warhol (Fall)
485: David Garrick (Fall)
Canadian Component:
297: Introduction to Inuit, Metis and First Nations Literature, Video and Film (Fall)
327: Development of Canadian Prose Fiction (Fall)
333: Development of Canadian Poetry 2 (Winter)
409: Alice Munro (Winter)
410: Atwood and Ondaatje (Fall)
411: Asian-Canadian Literature (Fall)
440: First Nations, Inuit Literature and Media (Winter)
441: History of Canadian Cuisine (Winter)
Historical Dimension:
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
327: Development of Canadian Prose Fiction (Fall)
336: Postwar British Fiction (Winter)
345: Shakespeare and Modernity (Fall)
371: 19C US Popular Entertainment (Fall)
382: American Film of the 1960s (Fall)
383: Kennedys (Winter)
391: Special Topics in Cultural Studies (Winter)
403: Samuel Johnson (Winter)
415: 1920s American Fiction (Winter)
422: Studies in 19C American Literature (Winter)
423: Literature of the Victorian Fin de Siècle (Winter)
441: History of Canadian Cuisine (Winter)
483: Seminar in the Film: Warhol (Fall)
461: Autobiography and the Novel (Winter)
400-level theoretical component:
390: Political and Cultural Theory (Winter)
458: Theories of Text and Performance 1 (Fall)
459: Theories of Text and Performance 2 (Winter)
460: Comedy (Fall)
483: Seminar in the Film (Fall)
489: Marxist Literary and Cultural Theory (Winter)
Additional courses (others may count as well: please consult an advisor in Cultural Studies):
204: English Literature and the Bible (Fall)
230: Introduction to Theatre Studies (Fall)
280: Introduction to Film as a Mass Medium (Winter)
297: Introduction to Inuit, Metis and First Nations Literature, Video and Film (Fall)
315: Shakespeare (Winter)
320: Postcolonial Encounters (Fall)
330: 19C English Novel (Winter)
336: Postwar British Fiction (Winter)
345: Shakespeare and Modernity (Fall)
381: French Feminist Filmmakers (Winter)
382: American Film of the 1960s (Fall)
383: Kennedys (Winter)
388: Studies in Popular Culture: Reality TV (Winter)
390: Political and Cultural Theory—The Private and the Public (Winter)
403: Samuel Johnson (Winter)
407: What is the Contemporary? (Winter)
408: Novel in South Asia (Winter)
409: Alice Munro (Winter)
410: Ondaatje and Atwood (Fall)
411: Asian-Canadian Literature (Fall)
414: Women in Modern Poetry (Fall)
416: Shakespeare and the Theatre of Conversion (Winter)
421: African Literature (Winter)
423: Literature of the Victorian Fin de Siècle (Winter)
430: Brecht and Churchill (Fall)
431: Latin American Theatre (Winter)
437: Studies in Literary Form—Memoir (Fall)
441: History of Canadian Cuisine (Winter)
444: The Female Public Intellectual (Winter)
460: Comedy (Fall)
467: Seminar in the Actress (Winter)
483: Warhol (Fall)
485: David Garrick (Fall)