I'll have a complete syllabus posted later in August, but here's the basic description of the course and a list of the books we'll be studying.

English 180: Topics in Canadian Literature

This course is a broad survey of the last hundred years of fiction in Canada, from before the First World War to the present day. We will cover novels and stories by writers from Canada’s three founding peoples (English, French, and First Nations), but our primary focus will be on texts originally written in English. Throughout the course, we will also interrogate the connection between literature, place, and identity. By covering a wide range of texts from different language and cultural communities and from different regions of Canada, we will gain some perspective of the diversity of Canada, its peoples, and its literatures. At the same time, we will also question the assumptions we inevitably make about any country and its people through reading its literature. As with any survey course covering such a large period of time and variety of literary expression, the selections of readings is not meant to be comprehensive, but rather provides you with a wide sampling of periods, genres, and authors.

Texts will include:
Stephen Leacock, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (Norton Critical Edition only)
Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute
Hubert Aquin, Next Episode
Margaret Laurence, The Diviners
Michael Ondaatje, In the Skin of a Lion
George Elliott Clarke, George and Rue
Eden Robinson, Monkey Beach

(full disclosure: I am a part owner of Northwest Passages)