This list comprises 2022-23 courses in the Department of English that will be accepted for credit towards your Literature program.
This list applies only to these courses as they are offered in 2022-23. These courses in a different year may not necessarily count towards your Literature program; please check the list for the year in which you took the course.
Courses are listed below by the program requirements they fulfill.
Course descriptions may be found here: https://www.mcgill.ca/english/undergrad/2022-2023-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:
ENGL 317: Theory of English Studies 1: Philosophical Approaches (fall)
ENGL 318: Theory of English Studies 2: Literary Institutions (winter)
ENGL 319: Theory of English Studies 3: Cultural Theory Now (winter)
ENGL 352: Theories of Difference (winter)
Major Author:
ENGL 315: Shakespeare (winter)
ENGL 329: English Novel: 19th Century 1: Charlotte Brontë (winter)
ENGL 409: Studies in a Canadian Author: Don McKay and Canadian Ecopoetry (fall)
ENGL 418: A Major Modernist Author: Virginia Woolf (winter)
ENGL 421: African Literature: Tanure Ojaide: Writing the Postcolonial Condition (winter)
ENGL 440: First Nations and Inuit Literature: Alootook Ipellie (fall)
Literature Before 1800:
ENGL 301: Earlier 18th Century Novel (winter)
ENGL 315: Shakespeare (winter)
ENGL 348: Great Writings of Europe 2: Early European Literature (fall)
ENGL 356: Middle English: Literature of the 15th Century (winter)
ENGL 400: Earlier English Renaissance: Elizabethan Romance (winter)
ENGL 447: Crosscurrents/English Lit and European Lit: Underworlds and Otherworlds (fall)
ENGL 461: Studies in Literary Theory 2: Eros, Confession, and Self-Construction in Autobiography and the Novel (fall)
Canadian Literature:
ENGL 228: Canadian Literature 1 (winter)
ENGL 313: Canadian Drama and Theatre (fall)
ENGL 409: Studies in a Canadian Author: Don McKay and Canadian Ecopoetry (fall)
ENGL 440: First Nations and Inuit Literature: Alootook Ipellie (fall)
ENGL 441: Topics in Canadian Cultural Studies: Canadian Inuit Literature (winter)
American Literature:
ENGL 225: American Literature 1 (winter)
ENGL 326: 19th Century American Prose: American Fiction after the Civil War (fall)
ENGL 422: Studies in 19th C. Am. Lit: Development of the American Short Story (fall)
Backgrounds of English Literature:
ENGL 348: Great Writings of Europe 2: Early European Literature (fall)
ENGL 447: Crosscurrents/English Lit and European Lit: Underworlds and Otherworlds (fall)
Old English:
Medieval:
ENGL 348: Great Writings of Europe 2: Early European Literature (fall)
ENGL 356: Middle English: Literature of the 15th Century (winter)
ENGL 447: Crosscurrents/English Lit and European Lit: Underworlds and Otherworlds (fall)
Renaissance:
ENGL 315: Shakespeare (winter)
ENGL 400: Earlier English Renaissance: Elizabethan Romance (winter)
18C Literature:
ENGL 301: Earlier 18th Century Novel (winter)
ENGL 461: Studies in Literary Theory 2: Eros, Confession, and Self-Construction in Autobiography and the Novel (fall)
Romantic:
ENGL 332: Literature of the Romantic Period 2: The Shelley Circle (winter)
ENGL 423: Studies in 19th Century Literature: British Romanticism, Local and Global (winter)
Victorian:
ENGL 329: English Novel: 19th Century 1: Charlotte Brontë (winter)
ENGL 405: Studies in 19th Century Lit 2: British Lit of the Victorian Fin de Siècle (fall)
ENGL 423: Studies in 19th Century Literature: British Romanticism, Local and Global (winter)
19C American:
ENGL 225: American Literature 1 (winter)
ENGL 326: 19th Century American Prose: American Fiction after the Civil War (fall)
ENGL 422: Studies in 19th C. Am. Lit: Development of the American Short Story (fall)
Modern:
ENGL 290: Introduction to Postcolonial and World Literature (winter)
ENGL 314: 20th Century Drama (winter)
ENGL 394: Popular Literary Forms: Spy Fiction (fall)
ENGL 414: Studies in 20th Century Lit 1: Women and Modern Poetry (fall)
ENGL 418: A Major Modernist Author: Virginia Woolf (winter)
Contemporary:
ENGL 290: Introduction to Postcolonial and World Literature (winter)
ENGL 297: Special Topics of Literary Study: 21st Century American Fiction (fall)
ENGL 336: 20th Century Novel 2: Contemporary British Novel (winter)
ENGL 394: Popular Literary Forms: Spy Fiction (fall)
ENGL 409: Studies in a Canadian Author: Don McKay and Canadian Ecopoetry (fall)
ENGL 421: African Literature: Tanure Ojaide: Writing the Postcolonial Condition (winter)
ENGL 472: Special Topics in Cultural Studies 2: Contemporary Narrative Film and Literature (winter)
Additional courses:
ENGL 360: Literary Criticism (fall)
ENGL 438: Studies in Literary Form: Literature and the Environment (fall)
ENGL 489: Culture and Critical Theory 1: Marxist Literary and Cultural Theory (winter)
RELG 211: Theology through Fiction (fall)
In addition, all of the above courses can count as additional courses on the audit sheet if they are not fulfilling another particular requirement.