English Studies
The English Studies Program provides a dynamic environment
for social and cultural debate. The program of study ranges
from the Vikings to the Internet, and includes drama subjects,
women’s writing, textual and cultural theories and British,
Australian and post-colonial literatures in their social and
cultural contexts. The term “English Studies”
describes a range of disciplines relating to the study of
textual production. We look at written texts like novels,
poems and plays, diaries, newspapers, journals and travel-writing,
but also at other kinds of texts, like music, paintings, tapestries,
films, television programs and videos, as creative process
and cultural product. English is often combined as a double-major
with Communication and Cultural Studies, but students may
combine it with any other approved Arts major. It is often
taken as the Arts major in the Arts/Law double degree and
it is an ideal second major for journalism students in the
Bachelor of Communication and Media Studies.
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
Convenors, 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.
English for teaching careers: Students intending
to teach in primary schools should take two at least English
subjects. Students intending to be secondary English teachers
need at least 28 credit points of English. In both cases,
one of the English subjects will need to contain the word
“Literature” in the title. (This regulation is
imposed by the NSW Education Department.)
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.
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.
Honours
See Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
Study Program
| Subjects |
|
Credit Points |
| 100-Level |
|
|
| 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 - at least 24
credit points of which at least 16 credit points must
be from the following subjects. |
| Note: Students may take
one subject at either 200 or 300 level from the list of
approved subjects at the end of this schedule). |
| 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 - at least 24
credit points of which at least 16 credit points must
be from the following subjects. |
| Note 1. : Students may
take one subject at either 200 or 300 level from the
list of approved subjects at the end of this schedule).
Note 2. : At 300-level, Pass Conceded or Pass Restricted
grades will not accrue credit points towards the major.
|
| ENGL312
|
Shakespeare, Jonson and their Contemporaries
|
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 |
| ENGL365
|
Nineteenth Century Women Writers |
8 |
| ENGL366
|
Literatures of Colonised Cultures |
8 |
| ENGL371 |
Twentieth Century Australian Literary
Culture* |
8 |
| ENGL373
|
Literatures of Colonising Cultures |
8 |
| ENGL374
|
From Page to Screen |
8 |
| ENGL376 |
Representing India |
8 |
| ENGL398
|
The Vikings: Old Norse Culture, Language
and Literature (Advanced) |
8 |
Other approved subjects:
Students may count ONE subject from this list in the English
Studies major. Students wishing to enrol in these subjects
must satisfy the subject prerequisites. |
| CCS217 |
Film, Form and Style |
8 |
| CCS219
|
Australian Screen |
8 |
| CCS221
|
Critical Cultural Practice |
8 |
| CCS223
|
Introduction to Publishing Studies: Print
|
8 |
| CCS225
|
Introduction to Electronic Publishing
|
8 |
| CCS330 |
The Practices of Everyday life |
8 |
| CCS335
|
Electronic Culture |
8 |
| CCS337
|
Hollywood and American Culture |
8 |
| CCS339
|
Hollywood and the Globalisation of Culture
|
8 |
| LANG305
|
Literature and Society in Renaissance
Europe |
8 |
| PHIL255
|
Interpretation and Communication |
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.
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