Electives

Prerequisite: ENG 2P or 2D

This course emphasizes knowledge and skills that will enable students to understand media communication in the twenty-first century and to use media effectively and responsibly. Through analysing the forms and messages of a variety of media works and audience responses to them, and through creating their own media works, students will develop critical thinking skills, aesthetic and ethical judgement, and skills in viewing, representing, listening, speaking, reading, and writing.

Prerequisite: ENG 2P or 2D

This course explores the themes, forms, and stylistic elements of literary, informational, graphic, oral, cultural, and media text forms emerging from First Nations, Metis and Inuit cultures in Canada, and also looks at the perspectives and influences of texts that relate to those cultures.

Themes of Identity, relationships, self-determination, sovereignty and self-governance.

Prerequisite: ENG3U for EWC4U

Prerequisite: ENG3C for EWC4C

This course emphasizes knowledge and skills related to the craft of writing. Students will analyse models of effective writing; use a workshop approach to produce a range of works; identify and use techniques required for specialized forms of writing; and identify effective ways to improve the quality of their writing. They will also complete a major paper as part of a creative or analytical independent study project and investigate opportunities for publication and for writing careers.