Welcome to the Department of English and Film Studies. Our department is composed of 21 full time faculty members and a smaller number of contract academic staff. Each year, we are home to about 800 undergraduate students working towards their Honours, combined Honours, Major, or Minor in English and/ or Film Studies degrees; and to about 30 graduate students, working at the PhD and Master's levels.

The English program offers students a chance to explore British, American, Canadian, and other literatures from the Medieval period to the present. In keeping with the lively and vibrant developments in English studies, our undergraduate courses are organized in various ways: according to historical periods, nationalities, genres, themes, and theoretical issues. Graduate courses, taught by scholars who are internationally-known researchers, are offered in a wide range of fields and topics. We are particularly strong in these areas: Gender and Genre; Early Modern; Canadian, Postcolonial, and Twentieth-Century Culture, Literature, and Film.

The emphasis of the Film Studies program is on reading film as narrative and as text. Students are introduced to a variety of films from Europe, Britain, Canada and the U.S.; to different film genres; to the history of cinema from the silent movies on; and to current film theories. Courses in both English and Film Studies develop students' ability to read and write, perform critical analyses, respond to works in their socio - cultural and historical contexts, as well as provide a solid grounding in literary or film studies.

Learning Objectives:
Undergraduate and Graduate English programs in the Department of English and Film Studies encourage the development of skills in:

• interpreting a variety of literary and cultural works, including fiction, film, drama, poetry, non-fiction, and visual media, and the historical, political, cultural, and discursive frameworks determining their composition and reception;
• using a cross-cultural approach, particularly in the context of non-Western, postcolonial, and global texts;
• closely analysing the language and form of complex texts;
• engaging strategically with a variety of theories of writing, reading, and representation;
• expressing clear critical arguments, both in scholarly writing and orally;
• conducting independent research, including evaluating a variety of resources (print, audio-visual, and virtual);
• recognizing the relevance of these skills to personal growth, to interdisciplinary thinking, and to successful careers after university.

Students are greatly appreciative of the collegial and stimulating intellectual atmosphere of the department, and the attention we pay to our undergraduate and graduate students. Graduates of our programs have gone on to do further studies; to be school teachers; to work in publishing, advertising, and journalism, to become librarians, to have careers in administration, marketing, law, and government agencies.

Please take the time to explore and learn more about our department.

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