The English Accelerated Program

The English Accelerated Program, while developing the appropriate competencies as defined by MELS, aims to give students an upper hand in their CEGEP studies.  All students, no matter what program they choose to study in CEGEP, will need to take English and Humanities courses.   The English Accelerated Program, consequently, focuses on teaching the strict analytical rigour essential for success in these core CEGEP courses. 

• Development of strategies for essay writing and analysis
• Platforming through lectures, group discussions, remediation, writer’s workshops, e-mail correspondence, E-Portals, etc...
• Relevant field-trips such as theatre, the Stratford Trip, and the Irish Exchange Trip.
• Inter-disciplinary studies, especially in relation to History, Philosophy, and Psychology.

The course will entail a focused study of various themes, including but not exclusive to:

• Work and Poverty
• Woman and Society / Gender Studies
• Race and Empire
• Religious transitions
• The World Wars
• Marx / Freud / Einstein / Durkheim
• Avant-Garde art versus Mass Culture
• Consumerism
• The Irish problem
• The emergence of the welfare state
• End of Western Colonialism
• Nationalism
• Multi-Nationalism
• Cold War Politics
• Game theory
• Technology

Material:

Victorian / Edwardian Era:

• Seminal essays
• Short stories
• Excerpts
• the poems Tennyson, Rossetti,  Browning, Arnold, Elizabeth Browning
• Picture of Dorian Gray
• Jane Eyre
• The Story of an African Farm
• A Tale of Two Cities
• Tess of the d’Ubervilles
• Maurice
• A Doll’s House
• The Awakening

Modern Period:

• Seminal essays
• Short stories
• Excerpts
• The poems of Eliot, Yeats, Hardy, William Carlos Williams, Pound, Wallace Stevens, Dickenson
• Mrs. Dalloway
• 1984
• Animal Farm
• In Our Time
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• The Old Man and the Sea
• The Great Gatsby
• Brave New World
• Brideshead Revisited
• As I lay Dying

Contemporary Period:

• Seminal Essays
• Short Stories
• Poems (with a bit of a narcissistic bent)
• Atonement
• The Alexandria Quartet
• Zorba the Greek
• The Road
• Ragtime