This intermediate university course is a continuation of spoken and written French, and enhances further skills in listening, comprehension, pronunciation, grammar, production, literature, and French/Francophone culture.

This intermediate university course builds on beginner courses taken in high school or university and combines spoken and written French, and enhances skills in listening, comprehension, pronunciation, grammar, production, literature, and French/Francophone culture.

Introduction to the origin and evolution of the Earth and the solar system, and plate tectonics and the rock cycle. Simple energy balances and interactions between radiation and the atmosphere, oceans, ice masses, and the global hydrological cycle. Evolution of life, biogeography, and global climate in the context of geological time. The carbon cycle. Human interaction with the Earth. Mineral and energy resources.

A variable-content seminar course on specific literary themes or genres such as the Faust figure, the motif of survival in Canadian literature, the frontier as a recurrent idea in American literature, comedy, tragedy, Romanticism, Neoclassicism, and writing by women. Students may take different-genre, different-theme versions of this course.

This course explores the genres of science fiction and fantasy in literature, with some reference to works in translation. The two genres will be examined as intersecting literary modes, with particular attention given to their potential for transformative creation.

This course examines children’s literature in English in historical and contemporary contexts.

An examination of women’s writing in English from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.

Students will read various plays representing the range of Shakespeare's work.

Representative works of writers illustrating the tradition of the short story in English are presented.

An introduction to the discipline of English and to the ways in which those in that discipline think about and analyze literary and everyday language practices. Various samples of literature will be examined in order to learn about the vocabulary used in literary studies. Instruction in essay writing will also be included.