Graduate academic calendar 2012 - 2013 - Trent University

GRADUATE PROGRAMS English Literature
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FINANCIAL SUPPORT
Graduate Teaching Assistantships and Research Fellowships are available for all full-time students
admitted to the program. Research Assistantships are also available; students will hold Research
Assistantships in addition to their Graduate Teaching Assistantships and Research Fellowships. While
the program will normally be completed in a calendar year (12 months) of full-time study, students
who are completing the Thesis option will be eligible for support for two consecutive academic
years provided they are making acceptable progress on their research.
In addition to bursaries and scholarships available from Trent University, students contemplating
application to the program are urged to apply for an Ontario Graduate Scholarship and/or a SSHRC/
CGS Scholarship and to additional external (non-university) funding agencies. Application materials
for the OGS and SSHRC/CGS are available online and from the School of Graduate Studies at Trent
University.
For further information on financial support for graduate students, please refer to the graduate
studies website: www.trentu.ca/graduatestudies/financialsupport.php.
REQUIRED COURSES
ENGL 5001H – Colloquium
The Colloquium will bring together all students in the program with faculty, visiting scholars
and experts (e.g., archivists, librarians, printers, publishers, editors, booksellers, book designers,
researchers in various aspects of theories of publics) for an intensive exploration of relevant
historical, theoretical and practical issues. The Colloquium will be offered throughout the year,
fortnightly, alternating with the Research and Professional Development Seminar.
ENGL 5003H – Research and professional development seminar
Topics include research methods and resources; the nature and requirements of a research project;
the presentation of the results of research in public forums; career development, academic and
non-academic. At the end of the year, students will publicly present a proposal for their Thesis or
Major Research Paper or Internship. The Seminar will be offered throughout the year, fortnightly,
alternating with the Colloquium. This course is mandatory for all students.
ENGL 5005H – Public texts 1
Explores the material and social production of texts and their circulation in relationship to publics,
focussing on technological and social practices and the circulation of texts, from preliterate orality
through the development of literacy and print to contemporary digital media. Prerequisite: ENGL
5005H.
ENGL 5007H – Public texts 2
Explores philosophies and theories of publics through political, affective, and radical public texts. We
will focus on concepts of publics in multiple historical contexts in order to put pressure on our ideas
of what publics have been, what they are, and what they can be in the future.
ELECTIVE COURSES
These courses focus on three general areas in the field of Public Texts. As a rule two topics in each
of the three areas will be offered each year:
• ENGL 5100-series – Topics in the material and social production of texts
• ENGL 5200-series – Topics in the circulation of texts
• ENGL 5300-series – Topics in publics and texts
In addition, students may take up to 0.5 credit in one of the following.
• ENGL 5901H, a reading course in an area specifically related to a student’s area of interest,
assuming faculty availability
• a course offered by another graduate program at Trent University, to be determined on a caseby-case
basis