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English Literatures

The English major introduces students to a broad range of literary texts--novels, poetry, essays, drama, short stories, film, life-writing, diaries and letters--drawn from medieval to contemporary popular culture. The major offers a rich international curriculum. Students read literatures written or performed in English from Australia, Africa, the Caribbean, New Zealand and the Pacific, Canada, India, the U.S., and the UK. They are encouraged to explore the aesthetic, formal, and ideological dimensions of literature. . The English major enhances reading, writing and speaking skills, enabling students to analyse what they read, and articulate their response to reading with critical acumen and cultural sensitivity.

Within the major, students can study broadly across genres and literary periods, or they can follow streams of subjects in areas including Australian literature, postcolonial literatures, Indigenous Australian/Canadian/New Zealand literatures, gender in literature, and literature by historical periods. Further specialisation is possible within each stream, e.g. Canadian within Postcolonial, Medieval and Renaissance within historical periods, or modern and contemporary within historical periods. English may be combined 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.

Major Study

A major study in English Literatures 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 credit points, at least 46 credit points will be in subjects having the prefix 'ENGL'. Students may substitute for an ENGL subject of equivalent level either PHIL255 or LANG305.

Minor Study

A minor in English Literatures will consist of at least 28 credit points from the Course Structure of the English Literatures major. Not more than two subjects may be taken at 100-level. Students may not cross-count any subjects from the minor in any other minor or major study.

Honours

See Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

Study Program