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Old 06-04-2009 at 09:08 PM   #1
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Fairy Tales? ENGLISH 3F03
Has anyone heard about this course before? Is it easy? I'm hoping to take it as a second year engineering elective.
Old 06-04-2009 at 11:20 PM   #2
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I don't recall this course ever being offered before.

A third year English class, even at the "open" level non-English students can find quite challenging; especially if there is a lot of reading.

I suppose we'll see tomorrow if they're actually offering the course for 2009-2010. A lot of elective classes (three unit English/CSCT) are offered every other or every two years.
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Old 06-05-2009 at 12:36 AM   #3
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Dear Kurt,

I recall one of my friends studying for this class during exams (she's in comparative literature), and I think she said it was pretty challenging.
Old 06-05-2009 at 03:12 PM   #4
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From what I've heard from many people who took first year English classes as electives in Engineering - they're A LOT of work without much return.

This is a third year course; you must be insane
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Even when we (CSCT/Comp Lit/English) students take some of these courses as electives we get screwed too!

YAY fun!
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Old 06-05-2009 at 08:32 PM   #6
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I think the course is offered for 09-10 because it's in the Undergrad Calendar.

Do you guys really think the course is really hard? It looks so interesting!

Well, I really want to take the Jane Austen course more, it's a third year English though. Has anyone taken that course?
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Old 06-05-2009 at 09:21 PM   #7
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All of the courses English offers end up in the calender regardless of if they're offered or not. I have no idea WHY they do this though. If you look at the summer timetable you'll see what I mean.

Some of the courses offered every other year/every two years/ever other summer:
  • Children's Lit (3Y03)
  • Youth Culture (3YY3)
  • Monsters and Magic (2R03)
  • Contemporary Critical Lit (2A03)
  • Contemporary Canadian Fiction (2C03)
  • 20th Century British Fiction (2E03)
  • American Lit (2F03)
  • Feminist Utopias (2N03)
  • Science Fiction (3D03)
  • Contemporary Canadian Drama (3DD3)
  • African American Lit (3EE3)
  • History of English (3J03)
  • Theories of Language (3JJ3)
  • African Lit and Film (3Q03)
  • Biblical Tradition in Lit (3S03)
  • Neanderthals and Nukes (3U03)
  • Jane Austen.
Of all of those courses, I've taken two.
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Old 06-14-2009 at 12:01 AM   #8
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I was wondering about this course too.

Apparently Children's Lit wasn't too difficult, and that was a 3rd year English, so there is a possibility of this course not being too hard.
Old 06-14-2009 at 03:00 PM   #9
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The reason Children's Lit wasn't too difficult this past year was that 32% of our grade was composted from multiple choice tests. So lots of non-English/CSCT/Comp Lit students had the opportunity to do well on the M/C tests and not do too well on the essays and still finish with a decent grade.
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