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Major: English

Major details:

English

EGL01

Department:
Department of English
Faculty:
Faculty of Arts

This major must be completed as part of an award. The general requirements for the award must be satisfied in order to graduate.

Requirements for the Major:

Completion of a minimum of 24 credit points including the following prescribed units:

Credit points

100 level

Required
3
Approaches to English Literature (3)
 

200 level

Required
6cp from
 
Australian Perspectives: Representing Place, Nation and Identity (3)
 
 
Fiction and History (3)
 
 
Twentieth-Century Drama in Context (3)
 
 
Contemporary and Postmodernist Literature (3)
 
 
Medieval Literature: Dreams and Debates (3)
 
 
Australian Literature (3)
 
 
Gothic Visions: From Sublime to Suburban Gothic (3)
 
 
World Literature in English (3)
 
 
Reading Theory (3)
 
 
Children's Literature (3)
 
 
The Metamorphosis of Myth (3)
 
 
Pulitzers, Bookers, Nobels: Prize-Winning Books (3)
 
6
Anglo-Saxon England (3)
 

300 level

Required
3
Textual Practices (3)
C
Required
9cp from
 
Murder, Mystery and Mayhem: Crime and Detective Fiction (3)
 
 
Narrative and the Novel (3)
 
 
Modernism (3)
 
 
Feminism and Literature (3)
 
 
Pre-War Australia from Stage to Webpage (3)
 
 
Shakespeare and the Renaissance (3)
 
 
Contemporary Australian Children's Literature (3)
 
 
Victorian Literary Culture (3)
 
 
Reason, Imagination, Revolution: Literature and Culture from Pope to Austen (3)
 
 
Doll to Cyborg (3)
 
 
American Literature and the Mid-Twentieth Century (3)
 
9
Working with Texts (3)
 

Any level

Required
3cp from
 
Literature and the Screen (3)
 
 
Literature and the Political (3)
 
 
Twentieth-Century Drama in Context (3)
 
 
Contemporary and Postmodernist Literature (3)
 
 
Medieval Literature: Dreams and Debates (3)
 
 
Australian Literature (3)
 
 
Gothic Visions: From Sublime to Suburban Gothic (3)
 
 
World Literature in English (3)
 
 
Reading Theory (3)
 
 
Children's Literature (3)
 
 
The Metamorphosis of Myth (3)
 
 
Pulitzers, Bookers, Nobels: Prize-Winning Books (3)
 
 
Anglo-Saxon England (3)
 
 
Fiction and History (3)
 
 
Narrative and the Novel (3)
 
 
Modernism (3)
 
 
Feminism and Literature (3)
 
 
Pre-War Australia from Stage to Webpage (3)
 
 
Shakespeare and the Renaissance (3)
 
 
Contemporary Australian Children's Literature (3)
 
 
Victorian Literary Culture (3)
 
 
Reason, Imagination, Revolution: Literature and Culture from Pope to Austen (3)
 
 
Doll to Cyborg (3)
 
 
American Literature and the Mid-Twentieth Century (3)
 
 
Working with Texts (3)
 
3
Murder, Mystery and Mayhem: Crime and Detective Fiction (3)
 

TOTAL CREDIT POINTS REQUIRED TO SATISFY THIS MAJOR

24
Note:
Units marked with a C are Capstone units.