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Department of History, Department of English | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Simon Fraser University Calendar | Spring 2025

English and History Joint Major

Bachelor of Arts

Program Requirements

English Lower Division Requirements

Students complete any two 100-division English courses. Such courses may include:

ENGL 111W - Literary Classics in English (3) *

Examines literary “classics”, variously defined, apprehending them both on their own terms and within larger critical conversations. May incorporate the comparative study of work in related artistic fields and engage relevant media trends. Includes attention to writing skills. Students with credit for ENGL 101W may not take this course for further credit. Writing/Breadth-Humanities.

ENGL 112W - Literature Now (3) *

Introduces students to contemporary works of literature in English and/or contemporary approaches to interpreting literature. May focus on one or multiple genres. Includes attention to writing skills. Writing/Breadth-Humanities.

Section Instructor Day/Time Location
D100 Nicky Didicher
Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, Wed, 8:30–9:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D101 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D102 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D104 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 2:30–3:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D105 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 2:30–3:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D106 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 3:30–4:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D108 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D109 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D111 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 2:30–3:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D113 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 3:30–4:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D114 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 3:30–4:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D115 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 1:30–2:20 p.m.
Burnaby
ENGL 113W - Literature and Performance (3) *

Introduces students to plays and performance works created and adapted for the stage, and/or the performative dimensions of other literary forms. May be organized historically, generically or thematically. The course may also explore the links between literary and performance theory. Includes attention to writing skills. Students with credit for ENGL 103W may not take this course for further credit. Writing/Breadth-Humanities.

ENGL 114W - Language and Purpose (3) *

Introduces students to the relationships between writing and purpose, between the features of texts and their meaning and effects. May focus on one or more literary or non-literary genres, including (but not limited to) essays, oratory, autobiography, poetry, and journalism. Includes attention to writing skills. Students with credit for ENGL 104W may not take this course for further credit. Writing/Breadth-Humanities.

Section Instructor Day/Time Location
D100 Peter Cramer
Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 12:30–2:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D101 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 8:30–9:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D102 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 8:30–9:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D104 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D105 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D107 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 10:30–11:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D108 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 11:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D109 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 2:30–3:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D110 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 2:30–3:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D112 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 3:30–4:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D113 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 3:30–4:20 p.m.
Burnaby
ENGL 115W - Literature and Culture (3) *

An Introduction to the study of literature within the wider cultural field, with a focus on contemporary issues across genres and media. Students with credit for ENGL 105W may not take this course for further credit. Writing/Breadth-Humanities.

Section Instructor Day/Time Location
D100 David Coley
Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, Wed, 12:30–1:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D101 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 8:30–9:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D102 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 8:30–9:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D104 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D106 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 2:30–3:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D107 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 3:30–4:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D108 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 8:30–9:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D110 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D112 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D113 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 2:30–3:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D114 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 3:30–4:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D900 Torsten Kehler
Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 10:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Surrey
D901 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 8:30–9:20 a.m.
Surrey
D902 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 8:30–9:20 a.m.
Surrey
D903 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Surrey
D904 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Surrey
D905 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 2:30–3:20 p.m.
Surrey
D906 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 2:30–3:20 p.m.
Surrey
D907 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 3:30–4:20 p.m.
Surrey
ENGL 199W - Writing to Persuade (3) *

An introduction to reading and writing from a rhetorical perspective. The course treats reading and writing as activities that take place in particular circumstances and situations, in contrast to the traditional emphasis on decontextualized, formal features of texts. It prepares students for reading and writing challenges they are likely to encounter within and beyond the classroom. Prerequisite: 12 units. Students with credit for ENGL 199 may not take this course for further credit. Writing.

Section Instructor Day/Time Location
D100 Sean Zwagerman
Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Tue, 2:30–4:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D101 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Thu, 2:30–3:20 p.m.
Burnaby
OL01 Alys Avalos Rivera
Online

Students also complete any four 200-division English courses. Such courses may include:

ENGL 202 - The Environmental Imagination (3) **

Explores how literature and language imagine the natural world and engage with environmental and ecological crisis. Topics may include ecocriticism: eco-poetics; approaches to the natural world; local, imperial, and Indigenous ecologies. May be further organized by historical period or genre. Prerequisite: 12 units or one 100-division English course. Breadth-Humanities.

ENGL 204 - Reading Sexuality and Gender (3) **

Considers how sexuality and gender are articulated, understood, explored, and negotiated through literature and language. May be further organized by historical period, genre, or critical approach. This course may be repeated for credit if a different topic is taught. Prerequisite: 12 units or one 100-division English course. Breadth-Humanities.

ENGL 209 - Race, Borders, Empire (3) **

Examines how literature and language work to reflect, perform, complicate, and critique constructions of race, ethnicity, and national and diasporic identities and spaces. May draw from post-colonial approaches, critical race theory, and Indigenous and decolonizing methodologies. May be further organized by historical period, genre, or critical approach. Prerequisite: 12 units or one 100-division English course. Breadth-Humanities.

Section Instructor Day/Time Location
D100 Joanne Leow
Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, Wed, 12:30–1:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D102 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D103 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 11:30 a.m.–12:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D104 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 2:30–3:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D106 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
ENGL 210 - Reading and Writing Identities (3) **

Considers how identity - construed psychologically, culturally, or socially - is performed and interrogated through literature and language. May be further organized by historical period, genre, or critical approach. Prerequisite: 12 units or one 100-division English course. Breadth-Humanities.

Section Instructor Day/Time Location
D100 Yiwen Liu
Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Fri, 12:30–2:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D101 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Fri, 8:30–9:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D102 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Fri, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D103 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 8:30–9:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D104 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
ENGL 211 - The Place of the Past (3) **

Examines literature and language within specific social, cultural, geographical, and textual environments to explore the mutually informing relationship between history and text. May be further organized by historical period, genre, or critical approach. Prerequisite: 12 units or one 100-division English course. Breadth-Humanities.

Section Instructor Day/Time Location
D100 Paul Budra
Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, Wed, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D102 Paul Budra
Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 10:30–11:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D104 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 3:30–4:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D106 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 2:30–3:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D107 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 3:30–4:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D200 JD Fleming
Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, Wed, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D201 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 8:30–9:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D202 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 12:30–1:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D203 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 2:30–3:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D204 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Mon, 3:30–4:20 p.m.
Burnaby
D205 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 8:30–9:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D206 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 2:30–3:20 p.m.
Burnaby
ENGL 213 - Reading Across Media (3) **

Explores texts in relation to their different material forms, including oral, manuscript, print, film, and digital media. May be further organized by methodology (e.g. book history, textual scholarship, media studies, adaptation studies, digital humanities), historical period, or genre. Prerequisite: 12 units or one 100-division English course. Breadth-Humanities.

Section Instructor Day/Time Location
D101 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Fri, 8:30–9:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D102 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Fri, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D103 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 8:30–9:20 a.m.
Burnaby
D104 Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Wed, 9:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
ENGL 214 - History and Principles of Rhetoric (3) **

Introduction to the history and principles of rhetoric, and their application to the creation and analysis of written, visual, and other forms of persuasion. Prerequisite: 12 units or one 100-division English course.

ENGL 216 - History and Principles of Literary Criticism (3) ***

The study of selected works in the history of literary criticism, up to and including modern and contemporary movements in criticism. Prerequisite: 12 units or one 100-division English course.

ENGL 234 - Metrics and Prosody (3) **

A study of different historical methods of measuring poetry in English, with practice in scanning and analyzing poems using different methods of quantitative analysis (e.g. Syllabic, rhythmic, alliterative). Prerequisite: 12 units or one 100-division English course. Students with credit for ENGL 212 may not take this course for further credit. Quantitative.

ENGL 272 - Creative Reading (3)

An introduction to the art of reading for creative writers, focusing on the linguistic, literary, and conceptual tools writers use to manipulate language to create different experiences for those encountering it, and exposing new writers to innovative literature. Prerequisite: ENGL 111W, 112W, 113W, 114W, or 115W; or WL 105W; or PUB 101. Breadth-Humanities.

Students wishing to major in English are strongly advised to submit a formal declaration to this effect to the undergraduate advisor upon completing all lower division requirements.

* any one, but not more than one, of these courses may be replaced by any three unspecified transfer units in English or in ENGL-Writing

** no more than one of these courses may be replaced by any three unspecified 200 division transfer units in English

*** recommended and any one, but not more than one, of these courses may be replaced by any three unspecified 200 division transfer units in English

History Lower Division Requirements

Students complete 18 units of 100 and 200 division history courses.

Students must complete at least six lower division history units before enrolling in 300 division work and nine lower division history units before enrolling in 400 division work.

English Upper Division Requirements

Students complete 20 units of upper division English courses. A minimum of four of these units must be at the 400-level, excluding directed studies courses (ENGL 490, 491); a minimum of four units must be from the following group of courses, focused on Canadian and/or Indigenous Literatures:

ENGL 355 - Canadian Literatures (4)

Study of selected works of Canadian literature, including Indigenous, diasporic, and settler texts. May draw from a variety of methods, critical debates, regions, and historical periods. This course may be repeated for credit if a different topic is taught. Prerequisite: 30 units or two 200-division English courses.

Section Instructor Day/Time Location
OL01 Clint Burnham
Online
ENGL 360 - Popular Writing by Indigenous Authors (4)

Examines works of popular fiction by Indigenous authors, and their use of specific genres (e.g. the mystery novel, vampire thriller, sci fi, comic book). This course may be repeated for credit if a different topic is taught. Prerequisite: 30 units or two 200-division English courses. Students who have taken FNST 322 under this topic, or FNST 360 may not take this course for further credit.

Section Instructor Day/Time Location
D100 Alexa Manuel
Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Tue, Thu, 2:30–4:20 p.m.
Burnaby
ENGL 431W - Seminar in Indigenous Literatures (4)

Advanced seminar on selected works by Indigenous writers. May be organized by author, genre, or critical approach. This course may be repeated for credit if a different topic is taught. Prerequisite: 45 units or two 300-division English courses. Strongly recommended: At least one Indigenous studies course. Writing.

Section Instructor Day/Time Location
D100 Deanna Reder
Jan 6 – Apr 9, 2025: Tue, Thu, 8:30–10:20 a.m.
Burnaby
ENGL 432W - Seminar in Canadian Literature (4)

Advanced seminar in Canadian literature. May be organized by author, genre, or critical approach. This course may be repeated for credit if a different topic is taught. Prerequisite: 45 units or two 300-division English courses. Writing.

With permission of the department, other English courses of equivalent content may be substituted for those required in this group.

History Upper Division Requirements

Students complete 24 units of 300 and 400 level history courses, of which 12 must be in 400 level. Students must complete at least one course from each group shown below. Global/Comparative courses that are also included in another group may only be counted towards fulfilling the upper division course requirements for one group.

Group 1 - Africa, Asia, Middle East

Group 2 - The Americas

Group 3 - Europe

Group 4 - Global/Comparative

Students in history joint major programs have the option of taking concentrations to enhance their programs.

Concentration in British History and Irish History

Concentration in Early Modern World History

Concentration in Middle Eastern and Islamic History

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Degree Requirements

For all bachelor of arts (BA) programs, students complete 120 units, which includes

  • at least 60 units that must be completed at Simon Fraser University
  • at least 45 upper division units, of which at least 30 upper division units must be completed at Simon Fraser University
  • at least 60 units (including 21 upper division units) in Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences courses
  • satisfaction of the writing, quantitative, and breadth requirements
  • an overall cumulative grade point average (CGPA) and upper division overall CGPA of at least 2.0, and program CGPA and upper division program CGPA of at least 2.0 on the course work used to satisfy the minimum program requirements. FASS departments may define additional GPA requirements for their respective programs.

Writing, Quantitative, and Breadth Requirements

Students admitted to Simon Fraser University beginning in the fall 2006 term must meet writing, quantitative and breadth requirements as part of any degree program they may undertake. See Writing, Quantitative, and Breadth Requirements for university-wide information.

WQB Graduation Requirements

A grade of C- or better is required to earn W, Q or B credit

Requirement

Units

Notes
W - Writing

6

Must include at least one upper division course, taken at Simon Fraser University within the student's major subject; two courses (minimum three units each)

Q - Quantitative

6

Q courses may be lower or upper division; two courses (total six units or more)
B - Breadth

18

Designated Breadth

Must be outside the student's major subject, and may be lower or upper division:

Two courses (total six units or more) Social Sciences: B-Soc
Two courses (total six units or more) Humanities: B-Hum
Two courses (total six units or more) Sciences: B-Sci

6

Additional Breadth

Two courses (total six units or more) outside the student's major subject (may or may not be B-designated courses, and will likely help fulfil individual degree program requirements).

Students choosing to complete a joint major, joint honours, double major, two extended minors, an extended minor and a minor, or two minors may satisfy the breadth requirements (designated or not designated) with courses completed in either one or both program areas.

Residency Requirements and Transfer Credit

  • At least half of the program's total units must be earned through Simon Fraser University study.
  • At least two thirds of the program's total upper division units must be earned through Simon Fraser University study.

Elective Courses

In addition to the courses listed above, students should consult an academic advisor to plan the remaining required elective courses.