A first-year schedule sample

This degree program is flexible and offers you the opportunity to take courses in many different subject areas. Here’s what a typical first-year schedule might look like:

^a Required or eligible course for the major
^b One of the course options to complete the Quantitative Reasoning Requirement
^c One of the course options which may be used in the Breadth, Cognate, and/or Electives Requirements

The Course and Program Catalogue has the complete and official listing of required classes and their descriptions for this program.

• Course and Program Catalogue

ENG 120: Introduction to Creative Writing
This course introduces students to strategies for writing original fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. The course will include both lectures and writing workshops in which students critique original writing by class members. Visiting authors may be invited into the classroom, and students will be encouraged to attend literary events in the community. By the end of the course, students will have a portfolio of polished writing in three genres.

ENG 226: Fantasy and Speculative Fiction
Examines literary genres that explore alternative worlds, experiment with the bounds of the real, and challenge the norms of reading. The course moves from precursors in legend, folktale, and romance, to Victorian fantasy, science fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction, and late 20th-Century feminist revisionary narratives.

ENG 307: Digital Literature and New Media
An introduction to digital narrative, poetry, and media theory. This course investigates the ways in which text, language, and writing have been used in creative and experimental digital media, including artworks and installations, e-literature and e-poetry, video games, websites, and so on. Students will read a variety of digital works alongside critical readings in new media theory and practice.

ENG 338: Contemporary North American Aboriginal Literatures
A survey of Indigenous literature from 1968 to the present, examining the explosion of Indigenous writing in the United States and in Canada during that period. Drawing on a range of genres, we will investigate the causes of this literary "renaissance" and the literary forms that have emerged from it.

• One of the largest departments on campus, the Department of English is dynamic, socially engaged, and multi-faceted. Our classes engage with literature from varied eras, genres, and media, whether manuscripts and books, films and poems, or online texts and graphic novels.
• We are known for our award-winning teaching and our strong research and publishing record. We encourage undergraduate research in our courses, through opportunities for paid assistantships, and by  mentoring students’ academic publications and creative writing.
• Our Indigenous literature courses allow students to explore Canada's first literary and storytelling traditions, while our new media courses provide students with an introduction to twenty-first century digital literatures.
• Senior students can investigate one of the vast options of an English grad by attending our career workshops and by participating in the Career Internship Seminar (English 496.3). Current placements allow students to work with organizations such as Sage Hill Writing Experience, PAVED Arts, and the Saskatchewan Literacy Network, among others!