1000-Level Course Descriptions
FALL 2026 | FALL/WINTER 2026-27 | WINTER 2027
ENGL-1000-001 | English 1A | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-002 | English 1A | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-003 | English 1A | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-004 | English 1A | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-005 | English 1A | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-005 | English 1A | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-760| English 1A | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS
ENGL-1003-001 | Intro Topics in Literature | Z. Izydorczyk
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1003-002 | Intro Topics in Literature | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1003-003 | Intro Topics in Literature | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1004-001 | Reading Culture | B. Cornellier
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
This course considers original ways cultural texts are created from diverse historical and ideological practices of adaptation and recoding of existing cultural material. Students shall explore the long and convoluted cultural history of Princess Salome and the beheading of John the Baptist, from the New Testament to 19th Century Orientalist art, Oscar Wilde’s theatre, 20th Century “camp,” and Rita Hayworth’s peculiar performance of the femme fatale in 1950s Hollywood. By introducing some of the key concepts in cultural theory, this course shall provide students with an opportunity to expand their understanding of different textual practices and modes of cultural production, including theatre, cinema, visual arts, popular culture, subcultural production, and digital remix. Our focus will be on the complex chains of production linking texts, cultural contexts, and audiences/readers together. As a result, students will be invited to reflect on what readers, consumers, and artists do with culture.
ENGL-1004-002 | Reading Culture | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1004-003 | Reading Culture | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
MULT-1301-001 | Introducton to the Humantities I| A. Brickey, B. Christopher, C. Colorado, and M. Funke
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
This course offers an intensive cross-disciplinary introduction to study in the Humanities, those fields of study concerned with the creative and intellectual products of human culture. Team-taught by faculty members from a range of Humanities disciplines, the course introduces students to a broad range of texts from different genres, forms, cultural contexts, and historical periods, and to the methods and methodologies of humanistic inquiry. Students regularly have the opportunity to participate in small seminar-style tutorial groups, where they delve more deeply into the reading and lecture material, contrasting and drawing connections between a range of traditions, texts, and approaches.
NOTE: Combined with MULT-1302, this course satisfies the 1st-year requirements in Classics, English, and Religion and Culture. Students should also register in MULT-1302 in the Winter term.
FALL/WINTER 2026-27
ENGL-1001-001 | English 1 | H. Snell
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
This course offers an introduction to university-level literary study. We begin by reflecting on definitions of the literary before turning to select literary works that encompass a relatively wide range of forms, styles, themes, periods, and literary movements. Introduction to relevant theory and criticism is provided in the interest of modeling how to use it to develop ethical, insightful, and culturally sensitive readings of literature. While students are introduced to a variety of theoretical and critical approaches, the course privileges standpoints that challenge, rather than reproduce, Eurocentrism. We proceed at a slow pace through texts that have generated considerable discussion in the field and which reflect wider sociocultural and political shifts. Classes involve a mix of lectures, writing practice, and interactive exercises designed to cultivate critical thinking skills.
ENGL-1001-002 | English 1 | C. Rifkind
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
This course introduces students to university-level literary studies, including the reading of creative texts (short stories, novels, plays, poems, films, graphic novels); the theory and practices of literary and cultural criticism; the role of historical, political, and cultural factors influencing and mediated by literary and cultural texts; and research and writing skills. We will read such canonical works as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Shakespeare’s Othello to investigate representations of “the other” and these foundational texts will lead us to more recent works that likewise raise important questions about gender, sexuality, race, class, nationalism, colonialism, and language.
Classes will combine lectures and small discussion groups, and students will develop a critical vocabulary to analyze texts across genres from a variety of historical periods, geographic regions, and artistic movements. The course also spends significant time on writing and research skills and students should be prepared for in-class writing assignments and hands-on workshops as well as outside class work. Regular attendance and participation form part of the evaluation. No Generative AI tools are permitted in this course in order for students to build essential skills in thinking, reading, and writing within a supportive environment.
ENGL-1001-003 | English 1 | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1001-004 | English 1 | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1001-005 | English 1 | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1001-006 | English 1 | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1001-245 | English 1 | TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
NOTE: This section will be offered in Portage la Prairie, MB. Location TBA. This section is reserved for students in the Community-based Aboriginal Teacher Education Program (CATEP).
ENGL-1001-250/251 | English 1 | TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
NOTE: This section is reserved for students in the Winnipeg Education Centre Program (WEC).
ENGL-1001-508/510 | English 1 | B. Talbot
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
NOTE: Section 508 is reserved for Dual Credit Collegiate students. Section 510 is a Collegiate Dual Credit section, reserved for regular Undergraduate students.
WINTER 2027
ENGL-1000-006 | English 1A | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-007 | English 1A | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-008 | English 1A | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-009 | English 1A | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-010 | English 1A | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1000-011| English 1A: When Books Talk Back | K. Ready
Course Delivery: ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS
This particular section of English 1A, subtitled “When Books Talk Back,” offers a select historical survey of poetry, fiction, and drama in English. The focus will be on texts that are engaged significantly in conversations with other texts and on contextualizing and understanding those conversations. As part of this process, students will be introduced to various critical theories and terms in order to get a sense of what are the important developments in the history of different literary genres, of how different writers fit into literary history and culture, and, finally, of how different texts are speaking to each other within that history.
ENGL-1000-290| English 1A | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1003-004 | Intro Topics in Literature | Z. Izydorczyk
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1003-005 | Intro Topics in Literature | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1003-006 | Intro Topics in Literature: Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know: Literary Bad Boys and Femmes Fatales | K. Ready
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
This particular section of Introduction to English: Topics in Literature, subtitled “Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know: A Survey of Literary Bad Boys and Femmes Fatales,” explores the intertwining histories of two major literary figures: the bad boy or homme fatal and the bad girl or femme fatale. Both of these figures recur throughout literary history, flourishing particularly in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through a select survey of poetry, fiction, and drama, concentrated in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this course will explore the origins, defining characteristics, and development of the figures of the fatal man and woman. In the course of class discussion, students will be introduced to critical theory, with emphasis on historicist, feminist, psychoanalytic, and post-colonial approaches.
ENGL-1004-004 | Reading Culture: Visualizing Winnipeg | A. Burke
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
How has Winnipeg been pictured and portrayed? What is the image of the city that circulates locally, nationally, and internationally? This course traces and explores a history of visual representations of Winnipeg, in photographs, film, objects, and graphic novels. How have these visual forms captured and conveyed the spaces and places, people and communities that make up the city? How do they represent its geography, depict its history, grapple with its present, and imagine its future? How is the utopian idea of Winnipeg compromised by its divisions, inequities, and exclusions? This course provides an introduction to cultural studies, film studies and studies in visual culture through a consideration of Winnipeg and how it has been drawn, described, and depicted.
Evaluation will be based on a series of essays and writing assignments, class participation, and an in-person final exam.
ENGL-1004-005 | Reading Culture | Instructor TBA
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
ENGL-1004-006 | Reading Culture: Supernatural Folklore | C. Tosenberger
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
In this course, we will study narratives of the supernatural: ghosts, monsters, devilry, witchcraft, and assorted creepy things. We’ll examine the links and disjunctions between folk narratives and popular mass-mediated discourse; of special interest are the cultural "conspiracy theories" that create a fertile landscape for real-life persecution and prosecution, particularly the early modern European witchcraft craze and the "Satanic panic" of the 1980's. Throughout, we will examine how these narratives circulate in both folk and "official" culture, as well as within fictionalized mass media.
MULT-1302-001 | Introducton to the Humantities II| A. Brickey, B. Christopher, C. Colorado, and M. Funke
Course Delivery: IN PERSON
Building on the skills taught in MULT-1301, this course offers students further training in the methods and methodologies of humanistic inquiry as applied to study in the Humanities, those fields of study concerned with the creative and intellectual products of human culture. Reading a broad selection of texts through the lenses of a range of literary, cultural, and critical theories, students will develop an understanding of and experience in the practice of critical inquiry. Students will then implement this knowledge in small seminar-style tutorial groups and writing workshops, learning and practicing the fundamental skills of Humanities research.
NOTE: When combined with MULT-1301, this course satisfies the 1st-year requirements in Classics, English, and Religion and Culture.