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.SENATE ... COMMITTEE ... ON .... UNDERGRADUATE 

STUDIES ? 

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Subject......

New. 

..Cours.e....Pro.po.sal: .EN.GL .... 36.3-.4 ? 

Date ......... 

April 

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Action taken by the Senate Co 

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ttee on Undergraduate 

Studies at its meeting on April 12, 1977 gives rise to the 

following motion: 

MOTION 

That Senate approve, and recommend approval to the 

Board of Governors, the proposed new course - 

ENGL 363-4 - Varieties of Fantasy, as outlined in 

paper S.77-42. 

:cp ? 

Daniel R. Birch 

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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MIMOIANDUM

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Mr. H.M. Evans, Secretary 

SCUS 

Subloct.

New Course Proposal - 

Engl.363- 

From. Sheila Roberts, Secretary 

Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee 

29.1.!?? 

The attached new course 

proposal from the Department of English- 

English 363-4 "Varieties of 

Fantasy", was approved by the 

Faculty of Arts Curriculum 

Committee at its meeting of March 

17,

1977. Please put it on the 

agenda of the next SCUS meeting. I 

am circulating it to 

the other faculties for overlap consideration. 

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Roerts 

cc. D. Birch 

R. Gehlback, Education 

J. Weinkam, Interdisciplinary 

Studies 

D. Ryeburn, Science 

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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

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Mr. H.M. Evans, Secretary 

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From.

Sheila Roberts, Secretary 

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Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee 

Subject New Course Proposal - Engl.363- 

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Date 

March 

29,

1977

The attached new course 

proposal from the Department of English- 

English 363-4 "Varieties of 

Fantasy", was approved by the 

Faculty of Arts Curriculum 

Committee at its meeting 

of March 17, 

1977. Please put it on the agenda of 

the next SCUS meeting. 

I

am

circulating 

it. to the other 

faculties for overlap consideration. 

cc. D. Birch 

EL Gehiback, Education 

J. Weinkam, Interdisciplinary Studies 

D. Ryeburn, Science 

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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY

MEMORANDUM

Ms. Sheila Roberts, Secretary 

Faculty of Arts Curriculum 

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Would you please place the enclosed New Course Proposal (English 

363-14 Varieties of Fantasy), which has been approved by the 

department, on the agenda for consideratlon at the next meeting 

of the Faculty of Arts Curriculum Committee. 

Thank you.

A. Messenger. 

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SENATE CO)1MITTIE ON UtRDUAU STUDIES

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NEW COURSE

PROPOSAL FORK

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Departasnt:._Eng1ish,__

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ThtrevLation Code:ENGL Cdtrae 

Nuaber: 

363

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Credit. HourS:4 Vector:

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1t1e of Course: Varieties of Fantasy 

Calendar Description of Course: Studies in various types of 

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fantas 

y,

literature. 

The

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course will normally concentrate on 

one

or more of the following: 

the Gothic novel and its descendants; modern 

fantasy

novels; children's 

fantasy literature; utopian and anti-utopian science fiction. 

Nature of Course 

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Lecture/Seminar (not .to be included An the calendar) 

Prerequisites (or special instructions): 

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•. 

Any two of Engl. 101, 102, 

103, 

and

any

one of 

Engi ? 

204, 

205, 

206, or 

permission of the Department. ? 

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What

course (course.), 

if any, Is being 

499pp.4.fros the calendar if this course

is

approved:None 

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Schedulin g    . 

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frequently will the course 

be offered? Once every six semesters 

Semester 

in

which the 

course will first be of fared? 

78-3 

Which of your 

present 

faculty would

be

available to aske the proposed

offering 

possible' R 

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Blaser, M Harris, A Lebowltz, T Maynard, .1 ? 

Mills, M Steig, 

Objectives of the Course 

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4 Budgetary and Space Requirements 

(for Information only)

What additional 

resources will be required 

in the following areas:

Faculty ? 

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When coepleting this form, 

for instruction, see Nemorandum SCUS

73-34a 

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. Objectives 

There is a large, varied body of literature which, though pre- 

dominantly outside the "standard" historical and generic fields, 

is both of considerable intrinsic importance as literature and of 

great interest to students and to a nUmber of faculty-members in 

the English Department; it also encompasses a number of fields In 

which an increasing amount of research Is being done, Internationally. 

This body of literature may bedesignated "fantasy," which in turn 

may be defined as literature that does not purport to present .a 

vision of the world as it is, nor, usually, to poetic sublimity, 

but rather creates imaginatively worlds that might be, or worlds 

that never could be, but which appeal to deep recesses of human 

wonder and desire. 

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Certain forms of literature such as medieval 

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or renaissance allegory might or might not be considered fantasy 

depending upon ones perspective, but such'categorles' as'sclence- 

fiction, most children's literature, and the Gothic novel may 

unequivocally-be considered fantasy. 

The particular emphasis of the course will depend on the lecturer; 

some possible topics to which the course might be devoted are listed 

on the attached page, with sample reading lists. ? 

One reason for 

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introducing a course which covers such an apparent diversity of 

material is the conviction of several department members that there 

is a significant relation among the various 'categories of fantasy, 

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both in their appeal to the reader and In 'the. fact that they are 

all-either historically or at present'-'popu1ar" forms, worthy of 

serious study in the context of an English department's program. 

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READING LISTS 

A.

The Gothic Novel and Its Descendants. Walpole, 

The Castle of 

Otranto; 

Radcliffe, 

The Italian; 

Maturin, 

Melmoth the Wanderer; 

Hogg, 

Conjessions and Memoirs of a Justified Sinner, 

Shelley, 

Frankenstein; 

Le Fanu, 

Uncle 

Silas; 

Faulkner, 

Sanctuary. 

B.

Literature of Fantasy for Children. 

Grimm's 

Fairy Tales, 

selections; 

Perrault, 

Fairy Tales; 

Carroll, 

-Alice 

in Wonderland 

and

Through 

the Looking-Glass; 

Kingsley, 

The

Water-Babes;MacDona1d, 

The

Princess and the Goblin; 

Nesbit, 

'

Five Children 

and

It;

Grahame, 

The Wind in the Willows; 

White, 

Charlotté'e Web; 

Sendak, 

Where the 

Wild Things Are. 

C.

19th 

and 20th Century Novels of Fantasy. MacDonaid,Phantastea; 

Morris, 

The Well at the World's 

end, 

Cabeil, 

Jurgen; 

Lewis, 

Perelandra; Wi 

11 lams, 

War

in

Heaven; 

Peake, 

Tiue' Groan; 

Leguin, 

A Wizard of Earthsea. ? 

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D.

Science-Fiction and Anti-Utopias. Wells, 

The

Island of Dr. Moreau, 

The Invisible Man; 

Orwell, 

Nineteen 

Eighty-Four;. 

Huxley, 

Brave 

New World; 

Vonnegut, 

Cat's Cradle;. 

Aid iss, 

The

Dark 

Light 

Years; 

Dick, 

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?; 

Leguifl, 

The Left Hand 

of Darkness; 

Lewis, 

Out of Silent Planet; 

Bradbury, 

Fahrenheit 

Four Fifty-one; 

Wyndham, 

The Seeds of 

Time. 

Sample recommended secondary sources: 

F. Butler, ed., 

Children's Literature ( 

annual), Vols. 1-5 

B. Betteiheim, 

The Uses of Enchantment ( 

Knopf, 

1976)

E,S. Rabkin, 

The Fantastic in Literature 

(Princeton, 

1976)

C.N. Manlove, 

Modern Fantasy 

(Cambridge U.P., 

1975)

M.

Hillegas, 

The Future as Nightmare 

(Oxford, 

1967)

R. M. Philmus, 

Into the Unknown: The Evolution of Science Fiction 

(Berkeley, 197C 

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