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Literature captures us and urges us to reflect on our relationship to the world, to our culture and to ourselves. In stories, poems and plays; in film, graphic novels and even video games, we represent who we are through imagination and language.

We offer a wide range of both traditional and innovative courses that tackle literature from a variety of perspectives. Let us feed your imagination and challenge your intellect.

This Year Only: Check out these special courses that will be offered in the 2019-20 academic year:

• ENGL 230: Young Adult Fiction: The Magic of Books
• ENGL 230: Sexting Through the Ages: 2500 Years of Erotic Writing
• ENGL 261: Literature and the Crisis of Authority in the West
• ENGL 330: One Hundred Years of Horror
• ENGL 362: Digital Approaches to Early Modern Women's Writing
• ENGL 372: The Eighteenth Century Now
• ENGL 391: Literature of Survival: Narrating Trauma
• ENGL 395: Science Fiction and Speculative Futures
• ENGL 406: XML for Professional Communicators
• ENGL 448: Re-thinking Atwood through The Handmaids's Tale
• ENGL 480: Alcohol in/and Modernist Fiction
• ENGL 481: Victorian Treasures in Special Collections: Adventures in rare books and digital tools

 For all other course offerings click here.

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We acknowledge and respect the Lkwungen-speaking peoples on whose traditional territory the university stands and the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ peoples whose historical relationships with the land continue to this day.