English York University

Overview

Course Details

York University offers a full range of English literature courses from the medieval period to the present, with particular strengths in contemporary poetry, popular literature, Canadian, American, African, South Asia and Caribbean literatures. The English BA program at York University invites you to explore some of the world's greatest literary works while developing critical thinking, reading and writing skills.

The English Department is the first and best place for considered and disciplined responses to the discourse and images that are shaped by the constantly changing technologies of a word-based world, and it is through the study of English literature that the critical skills necessary for understanding the past and the present are acquired.

Our goal is to provide you with a useful knowledge of literary works, both as art forms and as documents of human behaviour. By studying English literature, you will gain a vision of humanity as expressed in verbal art that crosses boundaries of time and place. Thanks to our location in the heart of the Greater Toronto Area, you can take advantage of the city's wide range of literary events including the Harbour front Reading Series and Word on the Street.

• Attend the Canadian Writers in Person series. Part of a first-year course, this popular series will introduce you to some of the best contemporary Canadian fiction and poetry. It's a unique opportunity to quiz the authors who pen the very works you're studying.

Possible Career Paths Include:

English programs offer you the opportunity to develop the critical thinking and communications skills that will be useful in throughout your career and which will help prepare you for jobs in:

• copy writing
• advertising
• marketing
• media research
• public relations
• arts management
• speech writing