English Studies

Major Study: A major study in English Studies is made up of at least 54 credit points: 6 at 100-level, 24 at 200-level and 24 at 300-level. Of the 54, at least 46 credit points will be in subjects having the prefix ENGL with at least 6 credit points at 100-level and at least 16 credit points at 300-level having that prefix. The remaining 8 credit points may be made up of ENGL subjects or subjects from other units approved for inclusion in the English Studies major. These subjects are listed at the end of this entry. At 300-level, Pass Conceded or Pass Restricted grades will not accrue credit points towards the major.

The English Studies Program offers subjects at 100-, 200-, 300-, and 400- (Honours) level, in the BA degree.

In the areas of Theatre and Writing, the Program has close working relationships with the Faculty of Creative Arts and, under certain circumstances and with the approval of the relevant Heads, students from the English Studies Program may undertake a limited number of subjects offered in the BCA. Similarly, students from the Faculty of Creative Arts may take Literature, Screen and Theatre subjects within the Program.

Pre-requisites For 200- and 300-Level Subjects. Students must have at least 6 credit points from 100-level English subjects to gain entry into 200-level subjects. For most 300-level subjects, students must have at least 6cp of subjects with the prefix ENGL at 100-level, 6cp of subjects with the prefix ENGL at 200-level and any other 6cp. For prerequisites to ENGL340 see subject descriptions.

Assessment: Assessment in this Program is normally by a combination of essays, tutorial/seminar presentations, journals and/or short, in-class or take-home exams. Drama subjects may have an additional practical component. The assessment requirements of each subject are set out in the individual subject outlines which students receive in the first week of session. Only students who have completed ALL PARTS of the assessment requirement of a subject will be eligible to be awarded a passing grade.

Attendance: Satisfactory completion of a subject requires attendance at a minimum of 80% of tutorials/seminars. Students are expected to attend all lectures in each subject.

Textbooks: Students should check the Unicentre bookshop before buying texts for a subject.

English Honours: Students who achieve a credit average or better in English and who wish to undertake a further year of English study or proceed to research-based higher degrees should consider enrolling in English Honours. This Program has an "end-on" honours year, which means that there are no specific Honours subjects at second and third year levels. Students complete the requirements for the English major and the undergraduate pass degree (and may if they wish, graduate as pass degree students) before being eligible to undertake the Honours year.

Entry to 400-level (Honours) is determined by a recommendation from the Program Head, following the student's application to the University and the Program for admission to the Honours year. The Program normally accepts only students whose average English grade is a Credit or above, particularly at 200- and 300-levels. Approved students then enrol in a 48-credit point course, ENGL400, which consists of three (3) subjects and a 15,000-word thesis on a topic chosen by the student, in consultation with the Program. This may be taken as a one-year full-time course, or as a part-time course of up to four consecutive sessions (not including Summer).

Students considering Honours should discuss their undergraduate subject choices with the Honours Co-ordinator prior to the commencement of their first session of enrolment.

All offerings depend on the availability of staff and enrolment numbers in the subject.

100-Level	Credit Points
ENGL113	Contemporary Writing in Australia	6
ENGL117	Forms of the Imagination	6
ENGL120	An Introduction to Literature and Screen Studies	6
ENGL121	Text and Gender	6
ENGL199	Understanding Literary Techniques	6
200-Level Students without English 100-level subjects may be admitted to subjects in English 200-level with the approval of the Program Head.
ENGL228	English Renaissance Literature and Culture	8
ENGL229	Romantics and Victorians: English Literature from 1790-1900	8
ENGL230	Page to Stage: Modes of Performance	8
ENGL231	Australian Drama and Theatre	8
ENGL243	Fantasy and Children's Literature	8
ENGL244	Children's Literature in Australia	8
ENGL248	Chaucer	8
ENGL253	Major Twentieth-Century Writers	8
ENGL255	Eighteenth Century Literature and Culture	8
ENGL259	An Introduction to Canadian Writing	8
ENGL260	Nineteenth Century Australian Literary Culture	8
ENGL264	Modernism	8
ENGL265	English and the Empire	8
ENGL299	The Vikings: Old Norse Culture, Language and Literature	8
300-Level Students without the appropriate pre-requisites may be admitted to subjects in English 300-level with the approval of the Program Head.
Note: At 300-level, Pass Conceded or Pass restricted grades will not accrue credit points towards the major.
ENGL312	Shakespeare, Jonson and their Contemporaries	8
ENGL330	Theatre in English since 1968	8
ENGL331	Modern Drama	8
ENGL334	Critical Theory: Development and Debates	8
ENGL337	Sex, Power and Chivalry: Medieval to Modern Literature	8
ENGL340	Directed Study in English	8
ENGL345	Twentieth Century Women Writers	8
ENGL346	Comparative Australian/Canadian Writing	8
ENGL350	Fantasy and Popular Fiction	8
ENGL355	Fourteenth Century Literature	8
ENGL359	Contemporary Australian Drama	8
ENGL363	Turning Points: Selected Post-Colonial Fiction	8
ENGL365	Nineteenth Century Women Writers	8
ENGL366	Africa and the New World	8
ENGL371	Twentieth Century Australian Literary Culture*	8
ENGL373	Studies in Decolonising Literatures	8
ENGL374	Novel into Film	8
ENGL398	The Vikings: Old Norse Culture, Language and Literature	8
	(Advanced)
Non ENGL subjects which will count towards the English Major The following subjects will accrue credit points towards the English major. Students wishing to enrol in these subjects must satisfy the subject prerequisites.
CCS213	Audiences and Readers	8
CCS215	Race, Gender, Colonialism: Studies in Australian Culture	8
CCS219	Australian Screen	8
CCS221	Critical Cultural Practice	8
CCS223	Introduction to Publishing Studies: Print	8
CCS225	Introduction to Electronic Publishing	8
CCS335	Electronic Culture	8
CCS337	Hollywood and American Culture	8
CCS339	Hollywood and the Globalisation of Culture	8
GENE216	Women in Society: Images and Representations	8
LANG305	Literature and Society in Renaissance Europe	8
PHIL255	Interpretation and Communication	8
400-Level
ENGL400	English IV Honours	48
ENGL403	Combined Honours	48
ENGL499	Special Study	8

* Students please note: Students may enrol in the subject Twentieth Century Australian Literary Culture under one of the following subject codes: AUST300, ENGL371 or HIST380. All students in the subject attend the one lecture group and any one of the subject codes will be accepted in any of the majors containing the subject.

Example: Students majoring in English normally enrol in the subject as ENGL371 Twentieth Century Australian Literary Culture. If, however, they have studied the subject as HIST380 or AUST300, it can still count as an English subject at 300 level. This also applies for Australian Studies and History.

Double majors: Students who are attempting any two of the three majors may use this subject as the one subject which they can count across two majors. (The 8 credit point value of the subject is only counted once).