Undergraduate Program Pathways
English
EN 200 Pleasures of Poetry
EN 201 Children’s Literature
EN 218 Contemporary American Literature
EN 233 Shakespeare’s Comedies and Romances
EN 234 Shakespeare’s Tragedies and Histories
EN 237 The Fairy Tale
EN 238 Tolkien and Fantasy
EN 245 British Literary Tradition I
EN 246 British Literary Tradition II
EN 252 Multiculturalism and Literature
EN 263 Canada Then: Exploring Canadian Literature
EN 267 Canada Now: Contemporary Canadian Literature
EN 280 Introduction to Indigenous Literatures
EN 282 Graphic Novel
EN 285 Tween Literature and Culture
EN 286 Young Adult Literature
EN 345 19th C. British Novel
EN 346 The British Novel in the 20th Century
EN 210 Law and Order
EN 233 Shakespeare’s Comedies and Romances
EN 234 Shakespeare’s Tragedies and Histories
EN 235 The Politics of Transgression and Desire
EN 249 Mystery and Crime Fiction
EN 250 Literature, Nature, Ecocriticism
EN 252 Multiculturalism and Literature
EN 280 Introduction to Indigenous Literatures
EN 330 Human Rights in Contemporary Cultural Forms
For graduate schools and publishing industry, students should study courses from range of historical periods and genres:
EN 200 Pleasures of Poetry
EN 214 Medieval Poetry of the Fantastic
EN 245 British Literary Tradition I
EN 246 British Literary Tradition II
EN 334 Precarious Worlds: 21st Century British Fiction
EN 343 Modernist British Literature: Art and Artifice
EN 344 18th-C. Fiction: Sex, Shopping and Scandal
EN 345 19th C. British Novel
EN 346 The British Novel in the 20th Century
EN 350 Romantic Radicals
EN 351 Romantic Dystopians
EN 388 18th-Century Literature: Strange Wonders
EN 390 Chaucer and the Middle Ages
EN 392 Diversity in the Middle Ages
EN 393 Elizabethan Poetry and Prose
EN 394 Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
EN 395 17th C. Literature
EN 396 Mid-Victorian Literature: Culture and Anarchy
EN 397 Later Victorian Literature: Dissonance and Decadence
EN 211 Roots, Race, Resistance: Post-Colonial Literature
EN 213 The Child in African Literature and Popular Culture
EN 233 Shakespeare’s Comedies and Romances
EN 234 Shakespeare’s Tragedies and Histories
EN 241 Advance Academic Writing
EN 250 Literature, Nature, Ecocriticism
EN 252 Multiculturalism and Literature
EN 266 American Dreams & Nightmares
EN 267 Canada Now: Contemporary Canadian Literature
EN 313 West African Literatures and Cultures
EN 324 Gender & Sexuality in CanLit
EN 335 Transculturalism & 21st Century Anglophone Literature
EN 347 The Narratives of Empire
Film Studies
- For first year, explore! Maybe you are thinking of teacher’s college and want to pick up more “teachables” through taking minors. Maybe you are thinking of doing a master’s degree in Film Studies or maybe you are thinking of taking a film production program at Vancouver Film School or Sheridan College! Your first year at Laurier is intended to help you to figure out what subjects you like and what programs you might want to major in.
- For an Honours BA in Film Studies, you can take two of our 100-level courses: FS101: Film and Narrative; FS102: Film and Image; and FS103: Film and Genre.
- For combined majors, you need only one of our 100-level courses, but you can take two of them and count the other as an FS elective.
- For the Film Production Option, you need to take one of our 100-level courses.
- Interested in film production? Meet with the Film Studies Advisor to hear about the Vancouver Film School Pathway program and scholarship opportunities.
- At the end of first year in April, you can go onto LORIS and declare “Honours Film Studies” as your single major, as one of two majors, or declare the Film Production Option.
Note: You must be a single major Film student or a Combined English and Film student to be eligible for the Vancouver Film School Pathway.
- In second year, we recommend that single majors take one or both of the “Film History” required courses (To 1950 and Since 1950) and one of the “National Cinema” required courses (French, Italian, German, Canadian, Bollywood, Indigenous, World). You can also take some of your “FS electives” in second year (Film Musical, American Film, Animated Film, Film Sound). You can also take the “Film Production” courses, including “Industry” courses (Business of Film, Audiences and Film Fandom, Screenwriting) and “Studio” courses (Intro to Video Editing, Intro to 3D Animation, Advanced Video Editing, Advanced 3D Animation).
- For students in the Film Production Option, we recommend that you take your “Film History” required course (To 1950 or Since 1950) and one of your production courses (Intro to 3D Animation, The Business of Film, Audiences and Film Fandom, Intro to Video Editing, Advanced Video Editing, Advanced 3D Animation, Screenwriting and Directing). Lastly, you can take your senior “FS elective” (Film Musical, American Film, Animated Film, Film Sound). You can also count any production courses toward your 0.5 credits in senior “FS electives”.
- For combined majors, make sure you are on track with the courses in your other major and that you have room to take electives in other programs.
- Remember, even if you are doing a single major in Film Studies, you should take electives in other programs! Taking courses in other fields can help you expand your knowledge, develop other interests, and offer more to your future employers.
- Interested in international study opportunities? Meet with Laurier International. (Third year is the best year for an international exchange.)
- Planning for the Vancouver Film School (VFS) Pathway program? Start thinking about your application and pitch.
- Don’t forget to join the WLU Film Society to meet other cinephiles and attend Film Studies events like the Free Film Series.
- Also plan to meet with the Film Studies Advisor at some point in the year to make sure you are taking the right courses to stay on track.
Note: 200-level courses are open to all senior students, and most 300-level courses are also open to all senior students, except for the following courses which require that students have completed two of FS101, FS102, or FS103 as prerequisites (FS341, FS342, FS345, FS346, FS348, FS349, FS354, FS363).
Note: If you are taking the VFS Pathway, you cannot take the majority of Laurier’s “Film Production” courses (including “Industry” courses like Business of Film and Screenwriting and “Studio” courses like Intro to and Advanced Video Editing), depending on which program at VFS you want to take. To be eligible for the “Excellence in Media” scholarships, you must have completed a minimum of 1.0 credits in 100-level courses in your major and be enrolled in a minimum of three senior courses (1.5 credits in 200- or 300-level courses) in your major (FS Honours, EN Honours or EN/FS Combined Honours) at the time of the Pitch Competition in October. Please note, students must complete a minimum of 10.0 credits in total courses, of which 4.0 credits must be in your major (for combined majors, take at least 2.0 credits in FS and 2.0 credits in EN), with an overall GPA and major GPA of 5.0 (C) or above before you can attend VFS.
- In third year, you can take more electives, another Film History course and another National Cinema course if you only did one in second year. Also take one of your “Film Theory” courses (Classical, Contemporary, Gender, Mass Media) and more production courses.
- For combined majors, you will continue to take courses in your other major alongside Film Studies courses.
- If you're in the Vancouver Film School (VFS) pathway, your third year will be spent at VFS taking one of VFS’s four eligible programs: Film Production, Writing for Film and Television, Acting for Film and Television, or 3D Animation and Visual Effects
- For Film Production Option students, you can take your “FS Elective” (Detective, Sci Fi, Animation, Youth Culture), or another production course.
- Alongside your Film Studies courses, you will take courses in your other major and electives in other programs. Taking courses in other fields can help you expand your knowledge, develop other interests, and offer more to your future employers.
- Make sure you meet with the Film Studies Advisor at some point in the year to make sure you are on track to graduate on time and to discuss postgraduate opportunities.
- Thinking about graduate school? Consider the directed study or grad course option for fourth year.
- Best year for an international exchange.
- Remember to check out the WLU Film Society and Free Film Series.
- For fourth year, take any remaining required courses (History, Theory, National, Production), and your fourth-year seminars (two for single majors, one for double majors).
- For Film Production Option students, take any remaining required courses for the Film Production Option.
- The rest of your schedule is free to take more FS electives — maybe a “genre” course (Gangster, Detective, Western, Sci Fi) or exciting “topics” course (Cinematic City, Animation, Youth Culture, Film Sound, Auteurs).
- Planning to pursue graduate school? Consult with the film studies advisor for additional information, apply for SSHRC (fall) and OGS (winter), and apply to your preferred programs (fall and winter).
- Make sure you will be ready for graduation by meeting with the Film Studies Advisor in the summer or in early September while you still have time to add courses.