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ENGL 308 Course website

English (ENGL) 308
Native Literature in Canada (Revision 2)

Delivery mode: Individualized study.

Credits: 3 - Humanities

Prerequisite: ENGL 211 and ENGL 212 or equivalent first year English course(s).

Centre: Centre for Language and Literature

ENGL 308 has a Challenge for Credit option.

Course website

Overview

ENGL 308 is a survey of Native literature, primarily in Canada, written in English. The course begins with the oral tradition, focusing on creation myths and trickster mythology, and shows how oral literature has influenced the development of contemporary Native Canadian written literature, through an examination of the works of Tomson Highway, Eden Robinson, N. Scott Momaday, and Thomas King. The course also explores indigenous perspectives on history, religion, and the process of colonization.

Outline

Unit 1: Introduction to Native Literature

Unit 2: Creation Myths

Unit 3: The Trickster

Unit 4: Historical Orations

Unit 5: Contemporary Native Poetry

Unit 6: Contemporary Short Fiction

Unit 7: Contemporary Native Drama

Unit 8: Contemporary Novel-Monkey Beach.

Unit 9: Oral Fiction-The Way to Rainy Mountain

Unit 10: Fusion Fiction-Green Grass, Running Water

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Evaluation

To receive credit for ENGL 308, you must complete three written assignments and take a final examination. In order to receive credit for the course, you must achieve a minimum grade of "D" (50 percent) on the final exam and an average grade of at least 50 percent or greater on all the assignments and the examination.

Diagnostic Assign Essay Assign 1 Essay Assign 2 Final Exam Total
10% 25% 25% 40% 100%

To learn more about assignments and examinations, please refer to Athabasca University's online Calendar.

Course Materials

Textbooks

Highway, Tomson. The Rez Sisters. Calgary: Fifth House Publishers, 1988.

King, Thomas. Green Grass, Running Water. Toronto:
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd., 1993.

Momaday, N. Scott. The Way to Rainy Mountain.
Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 1969.

Moses, Daniel David and Terry Goldie, eds. An Anthology of
Canadian Native Literature in English. 3rd ed. New York:
Oxford University Press, 2005.

Robinson, Eden. Monkey Beach. Toronto: Random House Canada, Ltd., 2000.

Taylor, Drew Hayden. Toronto at Dreamers Rock/Education
is Our Right. Calgary: Fifth House Publishers, 1990.

Other Materials

The course materials also include a study guide, student manual and a book of readings.

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