Course Offerings - Spring 2014Term
ENGL 010-01
ENGL 100-01
ENGL 100-02
ENGL 100-03
ENGL 100-04
ENGL 100-05
ENGL 100-06
ENGL 100-07
ENGL 100-08
ENGL 100-10
ENGL 100-09
ENGL 100-11
ENGL 100-12
ENGL 100-13
ENGL 100-14
ENGL 100-15
ENGL 100-16
ENGL 100-17
ENGL 100-18
ENGL 100-19
ENGL 100-20
ENGL 100-21
Language Skills
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Brian Ganter
Angela Deziel
Anne Stone
cancelled
Jen Read
Carolye Kuchta
Ian Cresswell
Tim Acton
Dan Munteanu
Crystal Hurdle
Crystal Hurdle
cancelled
cancelled
Kim Minkus
Anne Stone
Kim Minkus
cancelled
cancelled
cancelled
Reg Johanson
cancelled
Ian Cresswell
ENGL 103-01
ENGL 103-02
ENGL 103-03
ENGL 103-04
ENGL 103-05
ENGL 103-06
ENGL 104-01
ENGL 104-02
ENGL 104-03
ENGL 104-04
ENGL 104-05
ENGL 104-06
ENGL 104-07
ENGL 105-01
ENGL 107-01
ENGL 109-01
ENGL 109-02
ENGL 109-03
ENGL 109-04
Studies in Contemporary Literature
Studies in Contemporary Literature
Studies in Contemporary Literature
Studies in Contemporary Literature
Studies in Contemporary Literature
Studies in Contemporary Literature
Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary Fiction
Contemporary Poetry
First Nations Literature and Film
Contemporary Issues in Literature and Culture
Contemporary Issues in Literature and Culture
Contemporary Issues in Literature and Culture
Contemporary Issues in Literature and Culture
Kent Lewis
Kent Lewis
Rae Nickolichuk
Tim Acton
Sheila Ross
Sheila Ross
Robert Sherrin
Tim Acton
Andrea Westcott
cancelled
Dan Munteanu
Dan Munteanu
Tim Acton
Sheila Ross
Brian Ganter
Brian Ganter
Reg Johanson
Carolye Kuchta
Vicky Ross
ENGL 190-01
ENGL 191-01
ENGL 191-02
Creative Writing I
Creative Writing II
Creative Writing II
Crystal Hurdle
Ryan Knighton
Ryan Knighton
ENGL 201-01
ENGL 203-01
ENGL 207-01
ENGL 210-01
ENGL 213-01
ENGL 217-01
ENGL 218-01
English Literature Since 1660
Canadian Literature
Literary Theory and Criticism
Staging Literature: Studies in Drama
World Literature in English
Literature on the Edge
The Art of Children's Literature
Kent Lewis
Rae Nickolichuk
Roger Farr
Ian Cresswell
Kent Lewis
Rae Nickolichuk
Andrea Westcott
ENGL 290-01
ENGL 296-1A
ENGL 296-1B
Creative Writing: Letter and Line
Creative Writing: Writing for the Stage
Creative Writing: Writing for the Stage
Crystal Hurdle
Hiro Kanagawa, Dawn Moore
Hiro Kanagawa, Dawn Moore
ENGL 332-1A
Literature and Society
Reg Johanson
ENGL 010-01
Language Skills
Brian Ganter
This course teaches essential writing, reading, and grammar skills that prepare students for the challenges of universitylevel reading and writing. Students begin by learning to write coherently at the sentence and paragraph levels,
eventually extending these skills to the essay form. Course work takes place through lecture-discussion, short readings
and writing workshops. However, our class will also draw on non-traditional forms of "game learning" (also called
"word games") in which we explore language mechanics and build solid writing skills through play and game-driven
problem-solving. NOTE: This course is not transferable to university but successful completion guarantees admission
to English 100.
Required Texts:
• Ruvinsky, M. Practical Grammar: A Canadian Writer's Resource. 2nd Edition
• College-level Dictionary of the student's choice
• The Gamebook of Writing (made available by instructor)
ENGL 100-01
Academic Writing Strategies
Angela Deziel
In this section of Academic Writing Strategies, we will analyze and evaluate different rhetorical strategies used in a
variety of media forms (print ads, commercials, articles, speeches, etc). The primary purpose of the course is to
introduce students to academic essay writing (summary and critique, research paper) and to help them develop the
necessary skills to produce effective, well-written essays at the university level. The course lectures will emphasize
grammatical and well-reasoned expository writing, essay organization, preparation of research papers, and proper
acknowledgement of sources. Course readings will include essays (which will be analyzed according to principles of
effective writing), instructions on the writing process and documentation methods, and an overview of grammatical
principles. Workshops will focus on identifying and correcting common grammatical errors and will offer students the
opportunity for intensive practice in essay-writing skills. This will include frequent written exercises in the
development of composition skills.
ENGL 100-02
Academic Writing Strategies
Anne Stone
In this section of Academic Writing Strategies, we will focus on readings about the five senses, exploring connections
to memory, culture, and language, etc. Over the course of the semester, you'll write in a variety of academic forms,
including the personal essay, summary, and research paper. Through weekly tutorials, you will improve your grammar,
hone your academic writing, and practice citation use.
Reading List:
• Ackerman, Diane. A Natural History of the Senses. Toronto: Vintage, 1991. Print.
• Stone, Anne. English 100 Coursepack. North Vancouver: Capilano University, 2014. Print.
• Coupe, Rosemary, et al. The Capilano Guide to Writing Assignments. North Vancouver: Capilano University,
2014. Print.
• Copies of other articles will be made available through Moodle.
ENGL 100-03
Academic Writing Strategies
cancelled
ENGL 100-04
Academic Writing Strategies
Angela Deziel
In this section of Academic Writing Strategies, we will analyze and evaluate different rhetorical strategies used in a
variety of media forms (print ads, commercials, articles, speeches, etc). The primary purpose of the course is to
introduce students to academic essay writing (summary and critique, research paper) and to help them develop the
necessary skills to produce effective, well-written essays at the university level. The course lectures will emphasize
grammatical and well-reasoned expository writing, essay organization, preparation of research papers, and proper
acknowledgement of sources. Course readings will include essays (which will be analyzed according to principles of
effective writing), instructions on the writing process and documentation methods, and an overview of grammatical
principles. Workshops will focus on identifying and correcting common grammatical errors and will offer students the
opportunity for intensive practice in essay-writing skills. This will include frequent written exercises in the
development of composition skills.
ENGL 100-05
Academic Writing Strategies
Carolye Kuchta
This section of English 100 develops writing skills in a variety of genres: narration, critical summary, analysis, and
research. Our provocative collection of readings is designed to stimulate investigation into some of the world’s most
pressing concerns: the environment, materialism, discrimination, family dysfunction, ethical deterioration, addiction,
technology, and war. Students will learn essential revision techniques and correct citation. The primary focus of this
class is on improving critical thinking, reading, and writing skills.
ENGL 100-06
Academic Writing Strategies
Ian Cresswell
This course is about writing in English at the first year university level and thus focuses on writing which informs,
explores or persuades. Since composition in this sense draws on various rhetorical strategies and techniques, you will
be required to read and analyze different types of writing. You will also be required to think critically, since without
that there is little point in writing.
Required Texts:
• Lewis, Kent. Word and World: A Critical Thinking Reader. Edition in Bookstore.
• Coupe, Rosemary, et al. The Capilano Guide to Writing Assignments. Edition in Bookstore.
• Fawcett, Brian. Cambodia. A book for people who find television too slow. Edition in Bookstore.
ENGL 100-07
Academic Writing Strategies
Tim Acton
English 100 (Academic Writing Strategies) is a course on writing clearly and articulately, thinking critically, and
researching effectively. This course will help students to understand rhetorical principles (writer, purpose, idea,
audience) and to apply those principles to critical reading and academic writing. The course will help students identify
and correct individual writing problems, develop critical thinking and reading skills, and practice writing various kinds
of essays including a research paper.
The required text for Spring 2014 is Troyka, Lynn Quitman and Douglas Hesse. Handbook for Writers.
6th Canadian ed. Toronto, ON: Pearson, 2013. Print.
ENGL 100-08
Academic Writing Strategies
Dan Munteanu
In rhetorical terms, the focus of this Academic Writing course is the argumentative mode. We will analyze the format
of the classical argument and investigate possible argumentative strategies. I will provide sample texts on controversial
issues which we will discuss and evaluate. The course also contains a documentation component as well as a writing
mechanics one.
Required Texts:
• Handbook for Writers: 3rd Canadian Edition by Jane Flick and Celia Millward
ENGL 100-09&10
Academic Writing Strategies
Crystal Hurdle
This course focuses on writing which informs, explores, or persuades. You will be required to read and to analyze
different types of writing; to think and to write critically and creatively. The course explores language use and abuse,
which is the focus of the research paper, as well as academic pop culture.
Texts:
• Sylvan Barnet, et al. Practical Guide to Writing with Readings, Can. ed.
• Psychology Today Jan./Feb. 2014
• Print Pack of students' work, including George Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language"
ENGL 100-11
ENGL 100-12
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
cancelled
cancelled
ENGL 100-13&15
Academic Writing Strategies
Kim Minkus
“You Say You Want a Revolution.” In this course students will explore several larger topics dealing with the theme of
revolution. We will explore the digital revolution particularly as it relates to the visual in film and gaming. We will
look at the information revolution and what that has meant to the physical form of the book and the larger changes
happening in educational institutions such as libraries. Finally we will discuss the revolution in communication and
what it means to be ourselves in a world where everyone is connected all of the time. Along the way students will
acquire the skills necessary to construct a soundly researched, properly cited and coherently argued essay.
Required Texts:
• Capilano Guide to Writing
ENGL 100-14
Academic Writing Strategies
Anne Stone
In this section of Academic Writing Strategies, we will focus on readings about the five senses, exploring connections
to memory, culture, and language, etc. Over the course of the semester, you'll write in a variety of academic forms,
including the personal essay, summary, and research paper. Through weekly tutorials, you will improve your grammar,
hone your academic writing, and practice citation use.
Reading List:
• Ackerman, Diane. A Natural History of the Senses. Toronto: Vintage, 1991. Print.
• Stone, Anne. English 100 Coursepack. North Vancouver: Capilano University, 2014. Print.
• Coupe, Rosemary, et al. The Capilano Guide to Writing Assignments. North Vancouver: Capilano University,
2014. Print.
• Copies of other articles will be made available through Moodle.
ENGL 100-16
ENGL 100-17
ENGL 100-18
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
Academic Writing Strategies
cancelled
cancelled
cancelled
ENGL 100-19
Academic Writing Strategies
Reg Johanson
Students learn techniques of summary, strategies for comparison, documentation, and the research essay. In addition to
learning to write, students learn to read academic writing and gain an understanding of some of the key terms and
concepts of contemporary research.
Required Texts:
• Reconcile This! West Coast Line #74, edited by Jonathan Dewar and Ayumi Goto.
ENGL 100-20
Academic Writing Strategies
cancelled
ENGL 100-21
Academic Writing Strategies
Ian Cresswell
This course is about writing in English at the first year university level and thus focuses on writing which informs,
explores or persuades. Since composition in this sense draws on various rhetorical strategies and techniques, you will
be required to read and analyze different types of writing. You will also be required to think critically, since without
that there is little point in writing.
Required Texts:
• Lewis, Kent. Word and World: A Critical Thinking Reader. Edition in Bookstore.
• Coupe, Rosemary, et al. The Capilano Guide to Writing Assignments. Edition in Bookstore.
• Fawcett, Brian. Cambodia. A book for people who find television too slow. Edition in Bookstore.
ENGL 103-01&02
Studies in Contemporary Literature
Kent Lewis
This course is a literary buffet, where students get to sample a variety of genres (novels, short stories, plays, myths,
poems, comics and other forms esoteric and strange). The chosen authors explore the antipodes of human experiences:
desire and regret, seduction and war, conquest and subordination, self and otherness, restraint and excess, sanity and
madness, masculinity and femininity, wine and cheese. The topics are big and juicy, but the setting is friendly and fun.
By the end of this course, students will be able to impress the cultural elite by casually using words like "subtext"
and "postmodernity." Now with 15% more awesomeness.
Required Texts:
• Gaiman, Neil. Coraline. HarperCollins: New York, 2002.
• Moore, Alan. Watchmen.New York: DC Comics, 2007.
• Palahniuk, Chuck. Fight Club. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996.
• Parks, Suzan-Lori.In The Blood. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 2000.
ENGL 103-03
Studies in Contemporary Literature
Rae Nickolichuk
In this course, we will examine a range of texts from all three genres (fiction, drama, and poetry) from the twentieth
and twenty-first centuries and what they tell us about the nature of truth. Specifically, we will look at Russell
Banks' The Sweet Hereafter and Robert Lepage's Polygraph. We will see a production of Soutar's Seeds at Frederick
Wood theatre. The short stories and poems for this class will be available as a course print package and will include
works by Michael Ondaatje, bp nichol, Stephanie Bolster, Ashok Mathur, Evelyn Lau and many others.
ENGL 103-04
Studies in Contemporary Literature
Tim Acton
English 103 (Studies in Contemporary Literature). In this course, we will study representative literary works of the
twentieth and twenty-first centuries. We will explore various current issues and how literature has been used as a
medium for artists to confront and define experience. While the works are primarily in the Modernist tradition, we will
give some consideration to recent critical strategies that depart from Modernist approaches. The course will help
students understand how to analyze ways literature represents or illuminates human experience, develop the ability to
read critically and thoughtfully, and introduce some of the vocabulary available to critical readers of literature.
The required texts for Spring 2014 are:
• Charters, Ann, and Samuel Charters eds. Literature and Its Writers. 6th ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2013.
Print.
• Joyce, James. The Dead. Ed. Daniel R. Schwarz. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's. 1994. Print. (Should be bundled
with the anthology)
• Pinter, Harold. The Homecoming. New York: Grove, 1987. Print.
• Wharton, Thomas. Icefields. Edmonton: NeWest, 2000. Print.
ENGL 103-05&06
Studies in Contemporary Literature
Sheila Ross
This course introduces students to a number of literary forms - novels, poems, graphic essay - each exploring in some
way the theme of "apocalypse" and featuring various kinds of "antihero." Whether about cultural genocide, a new
world order of criminality, or large scale "improvements" to the human being, these works each explore the human
capacity to be hopeful, effectual, or courageous in the face of such trauma. These wrecked worlds, both real and
fictional, provide an occasion for the writer and reader to study extremes of human conscience and consciousness
where moral certainty seems impossible and identity breaks down. In the course, students will learn to read with
attention, understand what distinguishes each work of art and each genre, and learn to write and converse with passion
about the issues encountered.
Required Texts:
• Sherman Alexie, Face (2009)
• Chris Hedges & Joe Sacco, "Days of Theft" (Days of Revolt and Revolution, 2012)
• Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men (2005)
• Vince Gilligan, Breaking Bad, S1E1, & others (2008 -12)
• Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake (2003)
• Peter Watts, Blindsight (2006)
ENGL 104-01
Contemporary Fiction
Robert Sherrin
Description: In English 104, we look at works by BC writers that focus either on historical/social issues or on aspects
of narrative itself. Your role as a reader and interpreter of text is central to the course. Classroom activities include a
range of discussion, demonstration, writing, boardwork, plus the use of sound, images, and film. I hope to have at least
one of our author's visit the class. Essays will prompt you to become more aware of your skills as a reader and to
employ your intelligence/imagination as an interpreter of texts.
Course Texts:
• Ravensong, Maracle
• Broken Ground, Hodgins
• Jade Peony, Choy
• Dead Girls, Lee
• IKMQ, Farr
ENGL 104-02
Contemporary Fiction
Tim Acton
English 104 (Fiction). In this course, we will study representative fictional works of the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries. We will explore various current issues and how literature has been used as a medium for artists to confront
and define experience. While the works are primarily in the Modernist tradition, we will give some consideration to
recent critical strategies that depart from Modernist approaches. The course will help students understand how to
analyze ways literature represents or illuminates human experience, develop the ability to read critically and
thoughtfully, and introduce some of the vocabulary available to critical readers of literature.
Required Texts:
• Charters, Ann, ed. The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Compact 8th ed. Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin's, 2011. Print.
• Conrad, Joseph. Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism: The Secret Sharer. Ed. Daniel R.
Schwarz. Boston: Bedford, 1997. Print.
• O'Hagan, Howard. Tay John. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2008. Print.
• Wharton, Thomas. Icefields. Edmonton: NeWest, 2000. Print.
ENGL 104-03
Contemporary Fiction
Andrea Westcott
In looking at contemporary fiction, we'll discuss a selection of short stories from The Broadview Anthology of Short
Fiction (2nd edition), taking a particular look at a range of Gothic stories. To complement the Gothic stories, we'll read
Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles using the 3rd Penguin edition edited by C. Frayling. We'll discover
how literary conversations happen between authors. As we see short story writers, and even poets creating dialogues
through their works of literature, we'll ask what they might be saying to each other and to us. We'll ask why. To try to
discover answers to these questions, we'll place the authors in their respective biographical, social, and cultural
contexts. In short, we'll read contemporary lit!
ENGL 104-04
Contemporary Fiction
cancelled
ENGL 104-05&06
Contemporary Fiction
Dan Munteanu
This course is an introduction to modern and post-modern fiction. It will deal with the manner in which the short story
and the novel reflect the major concerns of the 20th and 21st centuries, with an emphasis on the new role the word and
the concept of ambiguity have to play in the prose of our age.;
Following is a sample list of readings. The list may be shorter.
• Kafka, "The Metamorphosis"
• Melville, "Bartleby the Scrivener"
• Lessing, "To Room Nineteen"
• Laurence, "The Loons"
• Marquez, "The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World"
• Mishima, "Patriotism"
• Gallant, "My Heart Is Broken"
• Schlink, The Reader
• Chekhov, "The Lady with the Dog"
• Malamud, "Angel Levine"
• Marquez, "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings"
• Atwood, "Death by Landscape"
• Cortazar, "A Continuity of Parks"
• Singer, "Gimpel the Fool"
• Hemingway, "Hills Like White Elephants"
• Akutagawa, "In a Grove," "Rashomon"
ENGL 104-07
Contemporary Fiction
Tim Acton
English 104 (Fiction). In this course, we will study representative fictional works of the twentieth and twenty-first
centuries. We will explore various current issues and how literature has been used as a medium for artists to confront
and define experience. While the works are primarily in the Modernist tradition, we will give some consideration to
recent critical strategies that depart from Modernist approaches. The course will help students understand how to
analyze ways literature represents or illuminates human experience, develop the ability to read critically and
thoughtfully, and introduce some of the vocabulary available to critical readers of literature.
Required Texts:
• Charters, Ann, ed. The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Compact 8th ed. Boston:
Bedford/St. Martin's, 2011. Print.
• Conrad, Joseph. Case Studies in Contemporary Criticism: The Secret Sharer. Ed. Daniel R.
Schwarz. Boston: Bedford, 1997. Print.
• O'Hagan, Howard. Tay John. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2008. Print.
• Wharton, Thomas. Icefields. Edmonton: NeWest, 2000. Print.
ENGL 105-01
Contemporary Poetry
Sheila Ross
This course will introduce students to the remarkable variety of contemporary poetry as well as "poetics," the study of
its nature, principles, and techniques. Taking note of how contemporary forms are rooted in older traditions, we get
down with spoken word and performance poetry, dwell for a time in ecological poetry, repose awhile with such
"hybrids" as the prose poem, mull over conceptual poetry, and more. Along the way, we will consider such questions
as, what difference does it make when poems are heard and not read, and, what kind of mindfulness does reading and
writing poetry teach us? And what is a metaphor, really?
Course Materials:
• Gary Geddes, 20th Century Poetry and Poetics, 5th ed.
• Sherman Alexie, Face
• The Capilano Review 3.19 (Winter 2013), Narrative
Other texts and non-text course materials available electronically via the course website, in sound recordings, and in
live events.
ENGL 107-01
First Nations Literature and Film
Brian Ganter
This course explores the contributions of a variety of Indigenous writers, artists, filmmakers and critics who speak
within, across and against the borders of "Canada." Students will read creative and critical works from Indigenous
voices on matters of realism and fantasy, the history of colonialism, reconciliation, the legacies of residential schools,
treaties and land claims, the Indian Act and self-government, decolonization and territorial claims, Idle No More,
women's and 'Two-spirited' voices, media representations of Indigenous peoples and many other issues. The course
draws on contemporary literature -- novel, short story, film, and poetry -- as well as on graphic novel (Louis Riel),
digital media (NFB Interactive) and video game technologies such as "machinima." We will end the term with select
tales of Indigenous science fiction from Sherman Alexie (Flight) and others (Walking the Clouds, 2012). How do the
themes of sci-fi allow for a focused engagement with history, otherness and resistance in the wake of 21st century
forms of neo-colonialism and Empire?
Required Texts:
• S. Alexie, Flight
• C. Brown, Louis Riel (10th Anniversary Edition, 2013)
• G. Dillon, Walking the Clouds: An Indigenous Anthology of Science Fiction
• L. Gray, First Nations 101: Tons of Stuff You Need to Know About First Nations People
• T. Highway, Kiss of the Fur Queen
• E. Robinson, Monkey Beach
Optional Texts:
• M. Yahgulanaas, Red: A Haida Manga
ENGL 109-01
Contemporary Issues in Literature and Culture
Brian Ganter
Romanticism Reloaded: This course introduces students to the literature of the influential Romanticist movement
(1789-1830), from the dissident art of William Blake to the key collection Lyrical Ballads. Our aim however will not
be to appreciatively "read" the texts of the Romanticism but rather (with a reference here to the virtual universe of The
Matrix) to "reload" them-to reassess their meaning in our contemporary digital culture. The course moves beyond the
bounds of the book and examines the impact of computers, mobile networks, and new media on the creative process,
the reading process, and on the process of scholarly inquiry. How can digital tools like Google Translator and Google
Maps help us decipher lyrical poems? What does Mary Shelley's Romanticist-Gothic novel Frankenstein have to teach
us about bioengineered "frankenfoods" and sci-fi cyborgs? Students in this class should expect to submit traditional
papers but will also engineer multimedia scholarly projects utilizing audio, video and mapping technologies.
Attendance in all class sessions is required: students who miss a class will write a short paper on the issues and texts
covered in the session. No special technological expertise is required for this course.
Required Texts:
• M. Atwood, Oryx and Crake
• W. Blake, The William Blake Archive (online resource)
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RiP! A Remix Manifesto. Dir. B. Gaylor. (DVD, 2009)
M. Shelley, Frankenstein (Broadview
W. Wordsworth, W. and S.T. Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads
Additional Readings in Course Reader
ENGL 109-02
Contemporary Issues in Literature and Culture
Reg Johanson
"Think about the strangeness of today's situation. Thirty, forty years ago, we were still debating about what the future
will be: communist, fascist, capitalist, whatever. Today, nobody even debates these issues. We all silently accept global
capitalism is here to stay. On the other hand, we are obsessed with cosmic catastrophes: the whole life on earth
disintegrating, because of some virus, because of an asteroid hitting the earth, and so on. So the paradox is, that it's
much easier to imagine the end of all life on earth than a much more modest radical change in capitalism."-Slavoj Zizek
This course will focus on several diverse and contradictory contemporary imaginings of a revolutionary movement
against capitalism, all published within the last three years.
Required Texts:
• CrimethInc Ex-Workers' Collective, Work: Capitalism Economics, Resistance
• The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection
• Gord Hill, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book
• The Anti-Capitalist Resistance Comic Book
• Mercedes Eng, Mercenary English
ENGL 109-03
Contemporary Issues in Literature and Culture
Carolye Kuchta
This course is designed for students who love to travel but have commitments in the spring semester that limit them to
literary or filmic journeys. By reading contemporary fiction, non-fiction and drama, and by viewing several feature
films, travellers who take this course will visit cities such as Montreal, Tokyo, London, Antibes, New York, Lahore and
Moscow. As we discuss texts from these lively urban centres, we'll consider how each text comments creatively on
historical moments in the city's life.
Reading and viewing will include:
• Monsieur Lazhar directed by Philippe Falardeau.
• Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart
• Caryl Churchill's Serious Money
• Rust and Bone directed by Jacques Audiard
• Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist
• Victor Pelevin's The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
• A reading package with several essays and short stories
ENGL 109-04
Contemporary Issues in Literature and Culture
Vicky Ross
This course is designed for students who love to travel but have commitments in the spring semester that limit them to
literary or filmic journeys. By reading contemporary fiction, non-fiction and drama, and by viewing several feature
films, travellers who take this course will visit cities such as Montreal, Tokyo, London, Antibes, New York, Lahore and
Moscow. As we discuss texts from these lively urban centres, we'll consider how each text comments creatively on
historical moments in the city's life.
Reading and viewing will include:
• Monsieur Lazhar directed by Philippe Falardeau.
• Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart
• Caryl Churchill's Serious Money
• Rust and Bone directed by Jacques Audiard
• Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist
• Victor Pelevin's The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
• A reading package with several essays and short stories
ENGL 190-01
Creative Writing I
Crystal Hurdle
When is a poem really a story? When should you leave a draft alone? Through in-class writing, weekly homework
assignments, and personal projects, you will write up a storm in a number of genres. You'll be introduced to
professional writers, from Sharon Olds to Vladimir Nabokov, from William Carlos Williams to Sylvia Plath, to visiting
writers, as well as to the work of your colleagues, in aid of developing your style, articulating your voice.
Texts:
• Gary Geddes, ed. 20th-Century Poetry & Poetics
• Gary Geddes, ed. The Art of Short Fiction
ENGL 191-01&02
Creative Writing II
Ryan Knighton
In English 191 we will continue to develop our skills as writers by asking how writing can be made, not what it might
mean. Specifically, we will further engage with questions of poetry, microfiction, and so‐called creative non‐fiction, as
directed by their form and history. Our workshops are neither roundtable editing sessions, nor, worse, copyediting boot
camps. Rather, we will share draft examples of our own work in order to further our discussions, to expose new
questions, and to seek the effects of craft. Some case examples from published works will be provided in class, but our
own writing will serve as the primary texts. So will Stephen king’s memoir, On Writing, which is pretty damned fine.
By the final class, students should have at least one reworked submission of writing ready for a magazine or periodical.
To that end we will survey some of the nuts‐and‐bolts of pitching and publishing, too.
ENGL 201-01
English Literature Since 1660
Kent Lewis
This course introduces students to a sampling of the great works of the last 350 years (from 1660 to the 20th century, to
be precise). In a friendly and relaxed classroom environment, we sample choice offerings of the Enlightenment, the
Romantics, the Victorians, and those bewildered and bewildering Moderns. The authors are all the bright lights of the
British canon - Swift, Pope, Blake, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Browning, Rossetti, Wilde, Eliot and Yeats, to drop a few
names -- essential additions to any aspiring student's cultural capital. For the non-students, these artists are just a lot of
fun to read: at turns bitingly funny and spiritually mind-blowing, amorous and horrifying, politically incensed and
catty. Come for the grounding in the Western literary tradition; stay for the sheer pleasure of fantastic writing.
Required Texts:
• Longman Introduction to British Literature. Vol. 1C, 2A and 2B.
• Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein.
ENGL 203-01
Canadian Literature
Rae Nickolichuk
In English 203 this term, we will explore several Canadian works since 1950 that are, at once, familiar and
exotic. Principal texts include Sheila Watson'sThe Double Hook, Ann-Marie MacDonald's witty and subversive
play Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), and Robert Lepage's startling film Le Confessionnal. The short
stories and poems for this class will be available as a course print package and will include works by Michael Ondaatje,
bp nichol, Stephanie Bolster, Ashok Mathur, Evelyn Lau and many others.
ENGL 207-01
TBA
Literary Theory and Criticism
Roger Farr
ENGL 210-01
Staging Literature: Studies in Drama
Ian Cresswell
What is the stuff of tragedy? An old man tugging at his beard and shaking his fist at the Gods? A bus full of children
falling off a cliff? The Canucks losing in game seven of the Stanley Cup? Are these all 'tragic' in some way? But what
if the old man's beard starts to come away in his hand? What if the bus is filled with…lawyers? (Was that a joke? What
is a joke?) What if the Canucks… (No, that is surely beyond a joke!).
Tragedy. Comedy. What are they, and how do they interact? In this course we will try to get to the bottom of this as we
explore tragedies spanning two millennia, contrasting them with comedies. In so doing we will discover that these two
fundamental genres of drama take us to basic questions concerning subject identity, ethics and the creation of a good
society. Blood, tears, laughter…regrets. It will all be happening in English 210.
Required Texts (all available in the Capilano University bookstore):
• Sophocles, The Three Theban Plays
• Racine, Phedra (Ted Hughes version)
• Webster, The Duchess of Malfi and Other Plays
• Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida
• Moliere, Tartuffe
• Buchner, Danton's Death and Woyzeck
• Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
• Ionesco, Rhinoceros
• Beckett, Waiting for Godot
ENGL 213-01
World Literature in English
Kent Lewis
This course exposes students to a variety of modern writers from all quadrants of the globe, East and West, North and
South. Emphasis is placed on literature outside of the traditional English canon (that is, texts that originate outside of
Canada, the US, and UK). In these works, students will encounter a new set of cultural assumptions, identities, political
tensions, aesthetics, histories and social dynamics in a way that will hopefully help them situate their own culture in a
much larger international perspective. It's a virtual tour of the planet, in which seekers uncover all the joys of the new,
without the bothers of airport security.
Required Texts:
• Coetzee, J.M. Disgrace. London: Vintage, 2000.
• Houellebecq, Michel. Platform. New York: Vintage, 2002.
• Keret, Etgar. The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God. New Milford, CT: The Toby Press, 2004
• Kincaid, Jamaica. A Small Place. New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2000.
• Satrapi, Marjorie. The CompletePersepolis. Pantheon: New York, 2007.
Students will be required to download a collection of common domain poems and short stories; links to these will be
posted on the course website.
ENGL 217-01
Literature on the Edge
Rae Nickolichuk
The course examines special topics, texts, and/or genres outside or on the margins of traditional literary studies.
This term, the focus will be the literature of popular culture. We will dive into the world of Harry Potter with The
Half-Blood Prince, and perhaps Game of Thrones as well. We will dip our toes into video game narratives, such
asHalo, experience the Broadway musical at our own campus theatre with The Drowsy Chaperone, and perhaps the
murder mystery as well-Witness for the Prosecution. We will foray into the world of contemporary music lyrics and the
slamming world of poets. Student interests will shape and determine some course content. In all cases, we will be
reading articles from a variety of theoretical perspectives to inform our analysis of these works and the nature and
significance of popular culture.
ENGL 218-01
The Art of Children's Literature
Andrea Westcott
"There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories." ~
Ursula K. Le Guin
In our discussions we'll analyze some of the differing conceptions of childhood, and look at what makes it worthwhile
for adults to read children's literature, since we find in the most rewarding works, the texts can be read and enjoyed on
many levels, and from a variety of critical approaches. As we read fairy tales, adventure stories, fantasy fiction, Lewis
Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and social realism, Kit Pearson's A Perfect, Gentle Knight, we'll discover
everything from nonsense rhyme to Neo-Platonism. Other texts include Reading Children's Literature: A Critical
Introduction by Carrie Hintz and Eric L. Tribunella (Bedford, 2013) and Philip Pullman's The Golden
Compass (Random House, 1995). Please buy the Broadview 2nd edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland, as we'll also be discussing the background context and critical articles in this edition.
ENGL 290-01
Creative Writing: Letter and Line
Crystal Hurdle
This is an intensive workshop in the writing of poetry, concentrating on an understanding of form, an awareness of
voice, and an individual poetics. Students will have the opportunity to try a variety of forms: the short lyric, the serial
poem, narrative verse, prose poetry, and whatever else warms the cockles of our collective heart.
Required Texts:
• Bishop, Wendy. Thirteen ways of Looking for a Poem: a guide to Writing Poetry. Don Mills, Ontario: Longman,
2000. Print.
• Hughes, Ted, ed. Sylvia Plath: Collected Poems. 1981. London: Faber and Faber, 1989. Print.
• Hurdle, Crystal. After Ted & Sylvia: poems. Vancouver: Ronsdale, 2003. Print.
• Print Pack with additional readings (of Hughes' work).
ENGL 296-1A&1B
Creative Writing: Writing for the Stage
Hiro Kanagawa, Dawn Moore
This course is both an introduction to playwriting and an immersion into small-scale theatre production. We'll discuss
and explore the fundamental concepts and techniques for creating dramatic action on the stage. We'll look at narrative
and scene structure, character development, dialog and subtext. Students will then experiment with these tools in their
own work and write their own 10-minute plays. Over the second part of the semester, these plays will be revised and
polished, rehearsed with student directors and actors, and performed in the Sacred Space New Play Festival. The
experience will provide aspiring writers and theatre artists with a strong foundation in narrative form, dramatic action,
and collaborative theatre creation.
ENGL 332-1A
Literature and Society
Reg Johanson
Bodies are on the move in the world on an unprecedented scale, compelled to migrate for a number of interrelated
reasons: climate change, war, religious, ethnic, or nationalistic strife, and the economic violence of the global
neoliberal economy, to name a few. When such bodies are detached from the state, the supposed guarantor of "rights",
they become, in Giorgio Agamben's phrase, "bare life". The spatial location of this Other is the "camp", detention
centre, prison, "reservation", slum, or ghetto. This course examines narratives from this place, so definitive of
21st century experience.
Required Texts:
• Monica Ali, Brick Lane (2003)
• Joe Sacco, Footnotes in Gaza (2010)
• Gord Hill, The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book (2011)
• Various authors, r / ally (2011)
• Plus films and other reading to be distributed in class.