These lists show English Department courses for 2025-2026 that fulfill requirements of the Cultural Studies, Drama & Theatre, and Literature programs, as well as complementary courses offered in other departments.
This is a provisional In-Department Complementary Course list. Courses may be added to or removed from this list up to the Add-Drop deadline of Fall Semester 2025. Please check this page regularly for the latest updates to the Complementary Course List.
Cultural Studies
This list comprises 2025-26 courses in the Department of English that will be accepted for credit towards your Cultural Studies program.
This list applies only to these courses as they are offered in 2025-26. These courses in a different year may not necessarily count towards your Cultural Studies program; please check the list for the year in which you took the course.
Courses are listed below by the program requirements they fulfill.
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, Criticism and Methods (See Note Below*)
ENGL 317, Literary and Cultural Theory: The Private and the Public (fall 2025)
ENGL 318, Literary and Cultural Methods: Literature and Disability (fall 2025)
ENGL 319, Literary and Cultural Criticism: Black Feminist Theories (fall 2025)
ENGL 322, Theories of the Text (fall 2025)
ENGL 344, Literature and the Environment (fall 2025)
ENGL 346, Materiality and Sociology of Text (winter 2026)
ENGL 360, Literary Criticism (winter 2026)
ENGL 444: Women’s Writing and Feminist Theory: Revolutionary Women (winter 2026)
Major Figure
ENGL 315, Shakespeare (winter 2026)
ENGL 316, Milton (fall 2025)
ENGL 381, A Filmmaker: Zacharias Kunuk (fall 2025)
ENGL 385: Topics in Literature and Film: Adaptations of Shakespeare (winter 2026)
ENGL 409: Studies in a Canadian Author: Michael Ondaatje (winter 2026)
ENGL 418, Major Author: Virginia Woolf (fall 2025)
ENGL 481, A Filmmaker 2: John Cassavetes and American Independent Film (winter 2026)
ENGL 489, Culture and Critical Theory 1: After Henry James (winter 2026)
Canadian Component
ENGL 229, Canadian Literature 2 (fall 2025)
ENGL 297, Special Topics of Literary Study: Inuit Literature (winter 2026)
ENGL 328, Development of Canadian Poetry 1 (winter 2026)
ENGL 333, Development of Canadian Poetry 2 (winter 2026)
ENGL 345, Literature and Society: Literary Montreal (fall 2025)
ENGL 374, Film Movement or Period: Indigenous Film and Television (fall 2025)
ENGL 409: Studies in a Canadian Author: Michael Ondaatje (winter 2026)
ENGL 410, Theme or Movement in Canadian Literature: Canadian Crime Fiction (fall 2025)
ENGL 440, First Nations and Inuit Literature: Indigenous Literature and Childhood (winter 2026)
Historical Dimension
ENGL 204, Literature and the Bible (winter 2026)
ENGL 280, Film as Mass Medium: Cinematic Adaptation (winter 2026)
ENGL 305, Renaissance English Literature 1 (fall 2025)
ENGL 307, Renaissance English Literature 2 (winter 2026)
ENGL 336, The Twentieth-Century Novel II: The 20th Century Writes Back (winter 2026)
ENGL 350, Studies in the History of Film 1: Films of the 1940s (winter 2026)
ENGL 351, Studies in the History of Film 2: Contemporary Cinema (fall 2025)
ENGL 353, Literature and Gender: Women in Modern Poetry (winter 2026)
ENGL 366, Film Genre: Teen Film (winter 2026)
ENGL 371, Theatre History, 19th to 21st Centuries: U.S. Popular Entertainments, 1820-1940 (winter 2026)
ENGL 382, International Cinema 1: Global Horror (fall 2025)
ENGL 418, Major Author (Virginia Woolf) (fall 2025)
ENGL 472, Special Topics in Cultural Studies 2: Screening Immaterial Labor (winter 2026)
ENGL 489, Culture and Critical Theory 1: After Henry James (winter 2026)
400-level Theoretical Component:
ENGL 431, Studies in Drama: Popular Entertainments in Long 18C (fall 2025)
ENGL 438, Studies in Literary Form: Critical Readings of Children’s Literature (fall 2025)
ENGL 489, Culture and Critical Theory 1: After Henry James (winter 2026)
ENGL 490, Culture and Critical Theory 2: Introduction to Digital Humanities (winter 2026)
Additional Courses (See Note Below**)
ENGL 204, Literature and the Bible (winter 2026)
ENGL 225, American Literature 1: African American Literature before the Harlem Renaissance (winter 2026)
ENGL 280, Film as Mass Medium: Cinematic Adaptation (winter 2026)
ENGL 295, 21st Century and 20th Century Literature and Culture (winter 2026)
ENGL 320, Postcolonial Literature: Postcolonial Encounters (fall 2025)
ENGL 340, 21st Century Literature (fall 2025)
ENGL 344, Literature and the Environment (fall 2025)
ENGL 360, Literary Criticism (winter 2026)
ENGL 370 Theatre History: The Long 18th Century (winter 2026)
ENGL 374, Film Movement or Period: Indigenous Film and Television (fall 2025)
ENGL 378 Media and Culture: Documenting Cinematic Authorship (fall 2025)
ENGL 380, Non-Fiction Media: Cinema (fall 2025)
ENGL 381, A Filmmaker: Zacharias Kunuk (fall 2025)
ENGL 382, International Cinema 1: Global Horror (fall 2025)
ENGL 383, Studies in Communications (fall 2025)
ENGL 385: Topics in Literature and Film:Adaptations of Shakespeare (winter 2026)
ENGL 395, Cultural and Theatre Studies: The Thinking Machine (fall 2025)
ENGL 423, Studies in 19C Literature: British Literature of the Victorian Fin de Siècle (fall 2025)
ENGL 437, Studies in Literary Form: The Novel (winter 2026)
ENGL 438, Studies in Literary Form: Critical Readings of Children’s Literature (fall 2025)
ENGL 444, Studies in Women Authors: Revolutionary Women (winter 2026)
ENGL 476, Alternative Approaches to Media: Garbage Media (fall 2025)
In addition, all of the above courses can count as additional courses on the audit sheet if they are not fulfilling another particular requirement.
*Changes to the “Theory and Criticism” requirement are listed here and projected to go into effect for Fall 2025.
**Additional Courses: Projected to go into effect for Fall 2025, Majors in all streams (options) will be able to take any ENGL offering for the Additional Courses category.
Drama and Theatre
This list comprises 2025-26 courses in the Department of English that will be accepted for credit towards your Drama & Theatre program.
This list applies only to these courses as they are offered in 2025-26. These courses in a different year may not necessarily count towards your Drama & Theatre program; please check the list for the year in which you took the course.
Courses are listed below by the program requirements they fulfill.
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, Criticism and Methods (See Note Below*)
ENGL 317, Literary and Cultural Theory: The Private and the Public (fall 2025)
ENGL 318, Literary and Cultural Methods: Literature and Disability (fall 2025)
ENGL 319, Literary and Cultural Criticism: Black Feminist Theories (fall 2025)
ENGL 322, Theories of the Text (fall 2025)
ENGL 344, Literature and the Environment (fall 2025)
ENGL 346, Materiality and Sociology of Text (winter 2026)
ENGL 360, Literary Criticism (winter)
ENGL 444: Women’s Writing and Feminist Theory: Revolutionary Women (winter)
Practice-Based Courses
ENGL 269, Introduction to Performance (winter 2026)
ENGL 365, Costuming for the Theatre I: Costume Design (fall 2025)
ENGL 368, Stage Scenery and Lighting (fall 2025)
ENGL 377, Costuming for the Theatre II (winter 2026)
ENGL 396, Theatre Practicum 1 (fall 2025)
Performance-Oriented Courses
ENGL 269, Introduction to Performance (winter 2026)
ENGL 365, Costuming for the Theatre 1 (fall 2025)
ENGL 368, Stage Scenery and Lighting (fall 2025)
ENGL 377, Costuming for the Theatre 2 (winter 2026)
ENGL 396, Theatre Practicum 1 (fall 2025)
Courses in Theatre History
ENGL 370 Theatre History: The Long 18th Century (winter 2026)
ENGL 371, Theatre History, 19th to 21st Centuries: U.S. Popular Entertainments, 1820-1940 (winter 2026)
ENGL 431, Studies in Drama: Popular Entertainments in Long 18C (fall 2025)
Courses in Drama and Theatre Before 1900
ENGL 306, Theatre History: Medieval and Early Modern (fall)
ENGL 315, Shakespeare (winter 2026)
ENGL 370 Theatre History: The Long 18th century (winter 2026)
ENGL 371, Theatre History, 19th to 21st Centuries: U.S. Popular Entertainments, 1820-1940 (winter 2026)
ENGL 308, English Renaissance Drama 1 (winter)
ENGL 430, Studies in Drama: Medieval Drama (fall 2025)
ENGL 431, Studies in Drama: Popular Entertainments in Long 18C (fall 2025)
400-level:
ENGL 431, Studies in Drama: Popular Entertainments in Long 18C (fall 2025)
ENGL 438, Studies in Literary Form: Critical Readings of Children’s Literature (fall 2025)
ENGL 444, Studies in Women Authors: Revolutionary Women (winter 2026)
ENGL 489, Culture and Critical Theory 1: After Henry James (winter 2026)
ENGL 490, Culture and Critical Theory 2: Introduction to Digital Humanities (winter 2026)
Canadian Component
ENGL 229, Canadian Literature 2 (fall 2025)
ENGL 297, Special Topics of Literary Study: Inuit Literature (winter 2026)
ENGL 328, Development of Canadian Poetry 1 (winter 2026)
ENGL 333, Development of Canadian Poetry 2 (winter 2026)
ENGL 345, Literature and Society: Literary Montreal (fall 2025)
ENGL 374, Film Movement or Period: Indigenous Film and Television (fall 2025)
ENGL 409: Studies in a Canadian Author: Michael Ondaatje (winter 2026)
ENGL 410, Theme or Movement in Canadian Literature: Canadian Crime Fiction (fall 2025)
ENGL 440, First Nations and Inuit Literature: Indigenous Literature and Childhood (winter 2026)
Shakespeare
ENGL 315, Shakespeare (winter 2026)
ENGL 385: Topics in Literature and Film:Adaptations of Shakespeare (winter 2026)
Courses with a Theoretical Component
ENGL 390, Political and Cultural Theory: Intro to Black Feminist Theory (fall)
ENGL 460, Studies in Literary Theory: Race and Literature (Winter)
ENGL 490, Culture and Critical Theory 2
Additional Courses (See Note Below**)
ENGL 314, 20th-century Drama (winter 2026)
ENGL 383, Studies in Communications (fall 2025)
ENGL 395, Cultural and Theatre Studies: The Thinking Machine (fall 2025)
ENGL 444, Studies in Women Authors: Revolutionary Women (winter 2026)
All of the above courses can count as additional courses on the audit sheet if they are not fulfilling another particular requirement.
*Changes to the “Theory and Criticism” requirement are listed here and projected to go into effect for Fall 2025.
**Additional Courses: Projected to go into effect for Fall 2025, Majors in all streams (options) will be able to take any ENGL offering for the Additional Courses category.
Literature
This list comprises 2025-26 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 2025-26. 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.
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, Criticism and Methods (See Note Below*)
ENGL 317, Literary and Cultural Theory: The Private and the Public (fall 2025)
ENGL 318, Literary and Cultural Methods: Literature and Disability (fall 2025)
ENGL 319, Literary and Cultural Criticism: Black Feminist Theories (fall 2025)
ENGL 322, Theories of the Text (fall 2025)
ENGL 344, Literature and the Environment (fall 2025)
ENGL 346, Materiality and Sociology of Text (winter 2026)
ENGL 360, Literary Criticism (winter 2026)
ENGL 444: Women’s Writing and Feminist Theory: Revolutionary Women (winter 2026)
Major Author
ENGL 315, Shakespeare (winter 2026)
ENGL 316, Milton (fall 2025)
ENGL 357, Chaucer (fall 2025)
ENGL 385: Topics in Literature and Film: Adaptations of Shakespeare (winter 2026)
ENGL 409: Studies in A Canadian Author: Michael Ondaatje (winter 2026)
ENGL 418, Major Author: Virginia Woolf (fall 2025)
ENGL 489, Culture and Critical Theory 1: After Henry James (winter 2026)
Canadian Component
ENGL 229, Canadian Literature 2 (fall 2025)
ENGL 297, Special Topics of Literary Study: Inuit Literature (winter 2026)
ENGL 328, Development of Canadian Poetry 1 (winter 2026)
ENGL 333, Development of Canadian Poetry 2 (winter 2026)
ENGL 345, Literature and Society: Literary Montreal (fall 2025)
ENGL 374, Film Movement or Period: Indigenous Film and Television (fall 2025)
ENGL 409: Studies in a Canadian Author: Michael Ondaatje (winter 2026)
ENGL 410, Theme or Movement in Canadian Literature: Canadian Crime Fiction (fall 2025)
ENGL 440, First Nations and Inuit Literature: Indigenous Literature and Childhood (winter 2026)
American Literature
ENGL 225, American Literature 1 (winter 226)
ENGL 295, 21st Century and 20th Century Literature and Culture (winter 2026)
ENGL 326, 19C American Prose: America After 1865 (fall 2025)
ENGL 371, Theatre History, 19th to 21st Centuries: U.S. Popular Entertainments, 1820-1940 (winter 2026)
ENGL 438, Studies in Literary Form: Critical Readings of Children’s Literature (fall 2025)
Literature Before 1800
ENGL 204, Literature and the Bible (winter 2026)
ENGL 305, Renaissance English Literature 1 (fall 2025)
ENGL 315, Shakespeare (winter 2026)
ENGL 316, Milton (fall 2025)
ENGL 331, Literature of the Romantic Period I: Love and Global Romanticism (winter 2026)
ENGL 342, Introduction to Old English (winter)
ENGL 348, Great Writings of Europe 2: Arthurian Origins (fall 2025)
ENGL 357, Chaucer (fall 2025)
ENGL 400, Earlier English Renaissance: The 1590s (winter 2026)
ENGL 430, Studies in Drama: Medieval Drama (fall 2025)
ENGL 444, Studies in Women Authors: Revolutionary Women (winter 2026)
Backgrounds of English Literature
ENGL 348, Great Writings of Europe 2: Arthurian Origins (fall 2025)
Medieval
ENGL 348, Great Writings of Europe 2: Arthurian Origins (fall 2025)
ENGL 357, Chaucer (fall 2025)
ENGL 430, Studies in Drama: Medieval Drama (fall 2025)
ENGL 456, Middle English. Jews, Muslims, and Christians in Late-Medieval English Literature (winter 2026)
Renaissance & Restoration
ENGL 305, Renaissance English Literature 1 (fall 2025)
ENGL 307, Renaissance English Literature 2 (winter 2026)
ENGL 315, Shakespeare (winter 2026)
ENGL 316, Milton (fall 2025)
ENGL 400, Earlier English Renaissance: The 1590s (winter 2026)
18C Literature
ENGL 370 Theatre History: The Long 18th century (winter 2026)
ENGL 431, Studies in Drama: Popular Entertainments in Long 18C (fall 2025)
Romantic
ENGL 331, Literature of the Romantic Period 1: Love and Global Romanticism (winter 2026)
ENGL 444, Studies in Women Authors: Revolutionary Women (winter 2026)
Victorian
ENGL 326, 19C American Prose (fall 2025)
ENGL 329, 19C English Novel 1 (fall 2025)
ENGL 330, 19C English Novel 2 (winter 2026)
ENGL 423, Studies in 19C Literature: British Literature of the Victorian Fin de Siècle (fall 2025)
ENGL 437, Studies in Literary Form: The Novel (winter 2026)
Modern
ENGL 229, Canadian Literature 2 (fall 2025)
ENGL 295, 21st Century and 20th Century Literature and Culture (winter 2026)
ENGL 314, 20th-Century Drama (winter 2026)
ENGL 320, Postcolonial Literature: Postcolonial Encounters (fall 2025)
ENGL 333, Development of Canadian Poetry 2 (winter 2026)
ENGL 336, The Twentieth-Century Novel II (winter 2026)
ENGL 344, Literature and the Environment (fall 2025)
ENGL 345, Literature and Society: Literary Montreal (fall 2025)
ENGL 353, Literature and Gender: Women in Modern Poetry (winter 2026)
ENGL 410, Theme or Movement in Canadian Literature: Canadian Crime Fiction (fall 2025)
ENGL 418, Major Author (Virginia Woolf) (fall 2025)
ENGL 437, Studies in Literary Form: The Novel (winter 2026)
Contemporary
ENGL 229, Canadian Literature 2 (fall 2025)
ENGL 295, 21st Century and 20th Century Literature and Culture (winter 2026)
ENGL 320, Postcolonial Literature: Postcolonial Encounters (fall 2025)
ENGL 328, Development of Canadian Poetry 1 (winter 2026)
ENGL 333, Development of Canadian Poetry 2 (winter 2026)
ENGL 340, 21st Century Literature (fall 2025)
ENGL 344, Literature and the Environment (fall 2025)
ENGL 345, Literature and Society: Literary Montreal (fall 2025)
ENGL 407, Studies in Literary Theory: Contemporary American Literature and its Problems (winter 2026)
ENGL 409: Studies in A Canadian Author: Michael Ondaatje (winter 2026)
ENGL 410, Theme or Movement in Canadian Literature: Canadian Crime Fiction (fall 2025)
ENGL 437, Studies in Literary Form: The Novel (winter 2026)
Additional Courses (See Note Below**)
ENGL 204, Literature and the Bible (winter 2026)
ENGL 330, 19C English Novel 2 (winter 2026)
ENGL 360, Literary Criticism (winter 2026)
ENGL 370 Theatre History: The Long 18th century (winter 2026)
ENGL 383, Studies in Communications (fall 2025)
ENGL 385: Topics in Literature and Film: Adaptations of Shakespeare (winter 2026
ENGL 395, Cultural and Theatre Studies (fall 2025)
ENGL 423, Studies in 19C Literature: British Literature of the Victorian Fin de Siècle (fall 2025)
ENGL 438, Studies in Literary Form: Critical Readings of Children’s Literature (fall 2025)
ENGL 460, Studies in Literary Theory (winter 2026)
ENGL 489, Culture and Critical Theory 1: After Henry James (winter 2026)
ENGL 490, Culture and Critical Theory 2: Introduction to Digital Humanities (winter 2026)
In addition, all of the above courses can count as additional courses on the audit sheet if they are not fulfilling another particular requirement.
*Changes to the “Theory and Criticism” requirement are listed here and projected to go into effect for Fall 2025.
**Additional Courses: Projected to go into effect for Fall 2025, Majors in all streams (options) will be able to take any ENGL offering for the Additional Courses category.
Courses in Other Departments
The appearance of a course on these lists does not guarantee that the department running this course and/or the instructor will grant permission to a student from English to take this course; please always inquire about the availability of taking these courses.
There might be other courses in the Faculty of Arts for which you could receive English program credit. If you feel you have identified such a course that is not on this list, you must show your advisor the course syllabus in advance and, if he/she/they agree(s), get the advisor’s initialled approval of the course on your program Audit Sheet.
Finally, recall that majors are allowed to claim only two courses from outside the department to their English degree; if you wish to claim a third non-department course, you must receive advance approval from your advisor. (Minors may claim only one course from outside the department.)
Note: this inexhaustive list may not cover all courses that would fit well with our curriculum. Please inquire with an advisor if your course is not on this list.
Cultural Studies
Major Figure Requirement
TBA
Canadian Component
TBA
Historical Dimension
TBA
400-Level Theory Requirement
TBA
Other Courses
TBA
Drama & Theatre
TBA