COURSE CURRICULUM

The English program at Waterloo offers a diverse and expansive selection of courses that allow students to explore literature, rhetoric, media, and communication from multiple angles and time periods. Foundational courses such as ENGL100A (Fiction), ENGL100B (Poetry), and ENGL100C (Drama) introduce literary forms, while ENGL101A–C cover approaches to literary and rhetorical studies. Students can engage with contemporary topics through courses like ENGL108P (Popular Potter), ENGL295 (Social Media), and ENGL294 (Critical Game Studies), or explore identity and culture in classes such as ENGL208L (Race and the Literary Tradition), ENGL233 (Sexual Health and Well-Being in Comics), and ENGL328 (Black Canadian Writing). Literature-focused options span from medieval to modern, including ENGL305A (Old English Language and Literature), ENGL362 (Shakespeare 1), ENGL344 (Modern American Literature), and ENGL485 (Modern to Contemporary Literatures). Writing and communication courses include ENGL209 (Advanced Academic Writing), ENGL210E (Technical Communication), ENGL408A (Writing for the Media), and ENGL472 (Research Methods in Technical Communication). With electives in creative writing, digital design, linguistics, postcolonial studies, and rhetoric, the program prepares students for careers requiring strong communication, analytical, and writing skills, while also encouraging cultural literacy and critical engagement with texts across time and media.