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English

Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session

English Studies

Candidates for the Graduate Certificate in English Studies must complete 24 credit points, including 12 credit points of core units of study and 12 credit points of elective units of study.
Candidates for the Graduate Diploma in English Studies must complete 48 credit points, including 24 credit points of core units of study and 24 credit points of elective units of study.
Candidates for the Master of English Studies must complete 72 credit points, including 24 credit points of core units of study, 42 credit points of elective units of study and 6 credit points of capstone unit of study.
Core Units of Study
ENGL6100
Approaches to Literary History
6      Semester 1
ENGL6101
Approaches to Genre
6      Semester 1
ENGL6102
Approaches to Critical Reading
6      Semester 2
ENGL6103
Approaches to Global English Literatures
6      Semester 2
Capstone
Master of English Studies students must complete either ENGL6935 or (ENGL6929 and ENGL6930). Students completing the Dissertation can count ENGL6929 towards their elective.
ENGL6929
Dissertation Part 1
6   
Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Semester 1
Semester 2
ENGL6930
Dissertation Part 2
6    P ENGL6929

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Semester 1
Semester 2
ENGL6935
Research Essay
6   
Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Semester 1
Semester 2
Elective Units of Study
ENGL6040
Introduction to Old English
6      Semester 2
ENGL6041
Old English Texts
6    P ENGL6040
Semester 1
ENGL6106
The Idea of the South

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6      Semester 2
ENGL6107
Sentiment and Sensation

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6      Semester 1
ENGL6108
Modern Australian Poetry and Poetics
6      Semester 2
ENGL6109
Modern and Contemporary Drama

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6      Semester 1
ENGL6110
The 18th Century Novel: Theory and Example
6      Semester 1
ENGL6111
History Writing in English, 1500-1900

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6      Semester 1
ENGL6112
Wooing Women in Middle English Romance
6      Semester 1
ENGL6113
American Romance
6      Semester 2
ENGL6114
Language and Subject

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6      Semester 1
ENGL6115
Reading Suburbia

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6      Semester 2
ENGL6116
Life & Literature in the Age of Chaucer

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6      Semester 1
ENGL6901
Creative Writing: Fiction Workshop
6      Semester 1
ENGL6902
Creative Writing: Poetry Workshop
6      Semester 1
ENGL6903
Creative Writing: Screenwriting Workshop
6      Semester 1
ENGL6908
Creative Writing: Supervised Project
6    N ENGL6907 or ENGL6929 or ENGL6930 or ENGL6935

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Semester 1
Semester 2
ENGL6913
Critical Contexts for Creative Writing
6      Semester 2
ENGL6914
Research Methods for Creative Writing
6      Semester 1
ENGL6917
Literary Culture: Sydney
6      Semester 1
ENGL6936
Writers at Work: Fiction
6      Semester 2
ENGL6937
Major Movements in Contemporary Prose
6      Semester 2
ENGL6944
Writers at Work: Poetry
6      Semester 1
ENGL6945
Major Movements in Contemporary Poetry

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6      Semester 2
ENGL6969
Writers at Work: Screenwriters
6   

It is recommended that students also enrol in ENGL6903
Semester 2
ENGL6960
The Cold War

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6      Semester 2
ENGL6970
Reading Magazines
6   

Cross-listed for Master of Publishing students.
Summer Early
ENGL6982
Shakespeare and Modernity

This unit of study is not available in 2016

6      Semester 2
ENGL6984
Creative Non-Fiction Workshop
6      Semester 1
ENGL6985
Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
6      Semester 2
ENGL6991
Aust Lit and the Canonical Imaginary
6      Semester 1
ENGL6992
Henry James and the Art of Fiction
6      Semester 1
GCST6905
Gender in Cultural Theory
6      Semester 1
USSC6919
American Film and Hollywood
6      Semester 1
FASS7001
Academic English for Postgraduates
6      Semester 1
Semester 2
FASS7002
Academic Literacies for Postgraduates
6      Semester 1
Semester 2
WRIT6000
Professional Writing
6      Semester 2
WRIT6001
Professional Editing
     Semester 1