Carol Elaine Percy
Professor
Department of English
University of Toronto

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Since 2008-2009, our courses have been hidden on Blackboard and now on Quercus (Canvas). I enjoyed this relatively brief period of being able to see other people's syllabi online and being able to share my own.

Courses for the fall of 2008

• Textbooks have been ordered to the U of T bookstore.
• Courses are now online through U of T's Portal

Courses for the fall of 2007:

Textbooks have been ordered to the U of T bookstore.

• ENG285H1F: The English language in the world. (Crystal, Jenkins). The class will meet in Lash Miller 158.
• ENG6362H1F: History and structure of the English language II (Nevalainen, Beal). The class will meet in Innis College room 312.

Courses for 2006-7

• ENG 6365H1F (Diasporic Englishes). The textbook is Jennifer Jenkins' World Englishes. I have also just added Concert of voices: an anthology of world writing in English (Broadview). Additional readings will be assigned on the first day of class. If you're keen, check out the course website.
• ENG 367Y1Y (History of the English language). There are two textbooks: David Crystal's Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English language second edition, and a textbook/workbook bundle for Algeo and Pyles Origins and development of the English language and Problems in the origins and development of... If you're keen, check out the course website.

ENG305H1S (Swift, Pope, and their contemporaries). Textbooks have now been ordered to the U of T Bookstore on College Street, and will be available at the beginning of January. There will also be a modest coursepack, cost about two dollars. If you're feeling ambitious, you can read Gulliver's Travels or a biography of Swift or Pope over the break to get ahead on the reading.

Courses for 2005-2006:

• ENG307F (Women's writing of the restoration and eighteenth century). The course's home page is on ccnet, click here.
• ENG367Y (History of the English language, or, as I prefer to think of it, Histories of Englishes). The course’s home page is on ccnet, click here.
• ENG6362F (History and Structure of the English language II, perhaps the dullest title conceivable). Click here for the course webpage.
• ENG459S (Studies in 20th century literature: Language and power). We'll be using Caribbean literature to exemplify broader questions of language and power. This is an introductory course, though: I'm not expecting you to have previous knowledge of either Caribbean literature or English linguistics. The course webpage is here.

Courses for 2004-2005:

• ENG367Y,
• ENG457F, and
• ENG6361F.

Courses for 2002-2003:

• ENG6362S: History and structure of the English language II
• ENG201Y1Y (L5101): Reading poetry
• ENG367Y1Y: The history of the English language (histories of English languages)

Courses for 2001-2002:

• CTL5002: The Origins of Modern English (OISE/MA (T) program
• ENG457F: The English language in the 1770s. FYI: a revised version of it
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• Eng367Y: The History of the English Language
• ENG6361H: History and structure of the English Language I, summer session

Courses for 2000-2001:

• ENG201Y: Reading poetry (L0301)
• ENG220Y: Shakespeare (L0501)
• ENG1001F: Old English I
• ENG6361H: History and Structure of the English language, summer session

Courses for 1999-2000:

• ENG220Y, Shakespeare
• ENG442Y, Eighteenth-century women and poetry
• ENG6361F, History and structure of the English language I

How to contact me:

• email me at carol(dot)percy(at-sign)utoronto(dot)ca
• tel: (416) 978-4287
• c/o Department of English Office
• Room 610
• 170 St George St
• Toronto, ON
• M5R 2M8
  CANADA