This masters-level course introduces a range of internationally celebrated Canadian authors, exploring their work in relation to questions about place and landscape, nationality and migration, community and history.

"9 x 'online anytime' lectures (pre-recorded), with embedded activities. These can be completed in the student's own time.

7 x 90-minute seminars as scheduled on MyCampus

1 x 30-minute individual meeting.

This is one of the Masters options in English Literature and may not run every year. The options that are running this session are available on MyCampus.

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The standard assessments for this course are: 

■ 1500-word close reading exercise - 30%  

■ 3000-word essay - 60%  

■ 7-minute presentation - 10% 

If required, for instance where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, the following alternatives are available: 

■ There are no alternatives to the close reading exercise, but extensions to the deadline can be offered as reasonable adjustment (Students should follow the usual process for extensions). 

■ There are no alternatives to the  essay, but extensions to the deadline can be offered as reasonable adjustment (Students should follow the usual process for extensions). 

■ A recorded presentation or one-to-one presentation / discussion/Q&A with staff (where presentation would normally be in class) as alternative to presentation. 

Further reasonable adjustments may be provided where necessary. Students are encouraged to consult with the course convenor.  

This course aims to:

■ explore the development and diversity of Canadian writing in English over the past hundred years, and discuss the processes by which a national literature is constructed;

■ analyse the politics of literary representations of colonial and postcolonial encounter, of wilderness, and of diasporic and multiethnic communities;

■ enable students to develop individually selected areas of specialised research.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ conduct advanced critical work on Canadian literary texts in relation to geography, history and intercultural exchange;

■ interrogate the issues of race, gender and cultural power which emerge in the attempt to identify national and regional literary traditions;

■ work in sophisticated ways with a range of online text archives and with interdisciplinary scholarly resources in Canadian Studies;

■ communicate responses to the material studied on the course both orally and in written form through coherent and persuasive argument.