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The following unit details are missing:

ENGL2668 Australian Gothic
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 2 Prerequisites: 12 credit points at 1000 level in English or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Australian Literature 12 credit points at 1000 level in English or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Australian Literature Prohibitions: ASLT2619 Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Faculty: Arts and Social Sciences Classes: 2x1hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week Assessment: 1x 5-10mins (approximately 500wd) oral presentation/summary (20%), 1x2000wd essay (40%), 1x2000wd take-home exercise (40%) Description: From the earliest days of European colonisation alongside visions of its promise, Australia has also been seen as the worst of all possible worlds, a hellish place of exile where nature seemed uncannily strange or hostile. The 'gothic' has offered a powerful means of representing this dystopian theme. This unit examines the gothic mode in Australian literature and film from the nineteenth century to the present, taking in such issues as 'Weird Melancholy', ghosts, bunyips, badlands and postcolonial (dis)enchantment.

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ENGL2670 Revolutionary Writing: 1960s and Beyond
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Prerequisites: 12 credit points at 1000 level in Australian Literature or 12 credit points at 1000 level in English Prohibitions: ASLT2602 Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Faculty: Arts and Social Sciences Classes: 2x1hr lecture/week, 1x1hr tutorial/week Assessments: 5x200wd online tasks (10%), 1x1500wd essay (40%), 1x2000wd take-home exercise (50%) Description: The 1960s through to the 1970s were decades of international cultural and social upheaval. A new range of cultural influences, drugs, pop art, sexual, women's and gay liberation, and the predominantly American counter-culture, influenced a new generation of Australian writers. Bush realism gave way to previously censored subject material - sex, drugs, anti-Vietnam War sentiment - and innovative forms of writing. This unit of study investigates these issues through the works of some of the key writers and films of this period.

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ENGL3635 Old Norse
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Prerequisites: 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Linguistics or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Celtic Studies Prohibitions: ENGL3631 or ENGL3632 or ENGL3622 or ENGL3621 Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Classes: 1x1hr lecture/week, 1x2hr tutorial/week Assessments: 2x1500wd essays (70%), 1x1hr exam (30%)
Description: Old Norse is the name given to the language of medieval Scandinavia which was spoken by the Viking invaders of Britain in the early Middle Ages. Old Norse literature presents a rich variety, from mythological and legendary poetry to Icelandic sagas. This unit extends students' understanding of the Germanic culture which the Anglo-Saxons brought to Britain by introducing them to the language of medieval Iceland, the literary centre of medieval Scandinavia, through texts written in Old Icelandic.

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ENGL3608 Transpacific American Literature
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Prerequisites: 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature Prohibition: ENGL2664
Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Classes: 1x1-hr lecture/week, 1x2-hr seminar/week Assessments: 1x2000wd research essay (40%), seminar participation 10%, 1x1000wd textual commentary (20%), 1x1.5hr exam (30%) Description: Students will apply advanced literary methods to address the broad ways in which American Literature in the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries has engaged with the opening of transpacific space. Themes will include the nature of westward exploration, the emergence of planetary perspectives and how these have affected US culture. Students will build on their knowledge of literary study to consider the key methodological question of how relationships between nation and narrative should be defined.

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ENGL4120 History Writing in English, 1500 to 1900
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Classes: 1x 2hr seminar / week Assessments: 1x2000wd essay or seminar paper (30%), 1x4000wd essay (70%) Description: We pose a number of interdependent questions. First, how and why have English authors from Tudor to Victorian times considered historical matters in different literary genres - verse, prose, prose-drama, and verse-drama? Second, how and why have these authors and their audiences deemed such historical writings to be literary or not? To determine the interdependence of these questions we pose a third. What are the literary and historical relations between literature and history?

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The following unit details are missing:

ENGL4123 Reading Suburbia
Credit points: 6 Session: Semester 1 Mode of delivery: Normal (lecture/lab/tutorial) day Classes: 1x2hr seminar/week Assessments: 8x250wd online writing tasks (20%), 1x500wd research essay proposal (5%), 1x3500wd research essay (75%) Description: Suburbia is a bad object in Australian literature. Neither city nor bush, suburbs can seem culturally bland zones of consumerist domesticity from which artists and writers want to escape. Yet loathing of suburbia can be mixed with desire. This unit explores various topographies of suburbia in fiction, poetry, non-fiction and film. Why do writers return to suburbia? How do suburbs give shape to settler modernity, or stimulate literary modernism? Is the suburb a national or transnational scene in Australian writing?

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The following unit is not available in 2019:

ENGL4127 Wooing Women in Middle English Romantics

 13/2/2019
Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session

English

Major
A major in English requires 48 credit points from this table including:
(i) 12 credit points of 1000-level selective units
(ii) 12 credit points of 2000-level selective units
(iii) 18 credit points of 3000-level selective units
(iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units

Minor
A minor in English requires 36 credit points from this table including:
(i) 12 credit points of 1000-level selective units
(ii) 12 credit points of 2000-level selective units
(iii) 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units

1000 level units of study
ENGL1002
Narratives of Romance and Adventure 		6      Semester 1
ENGL1007
Language, Texts and Time
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6      Semester 2
ENGL1011
Introduction to Film Studies 		6      Semester 1
Summer Main
ENGL1012
The Gothic Imagination 		6      Semester 2
ENGL1013
Global Literatures in English 		6      Semester 2
ENGL1014
Creative Writing 		6      Semester 2
ENGL1026
Constructing the Fictive Self 		6      Semester 1

2000 level units of study
Selective
ENGL2605
Literary Theory: An Introduction
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 12 Junior credit points in English or 6 Junior credit points in English and AMST1001
N ENGL3910 or ENGL3920 or ASLT3602 or ENGL3962
Semester 2
ENGL2611
Jane Austen, Then and Now
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 12 Junior credit points in English or 6 Junior credit points from English and AMST1001
N ENGL2011
Semester 2
ENGL2613
Literature, Politics and Modernity
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English
N ENGL2013
Semester 1
ENGL2617
Postmodernism
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 12 Junior credit points in English or 6 Junior credit points in English and AMST1001 or (AMST1001 and (HSTY1076 or HSTY1023)) or 18 Junior credit points including ENGL1011
N ENGL2017
Semester 2
ENGL2627
Screening Sexuality 		6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Film Studies
N ENGL2027
Semester 1
ENGL2638
Literature and Cinema
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 12 Junior credit points in English or (6 Junior credit points from English and AMST1001) or 18 Junior credit points including ENGL1011
N ENGL2038
Semester 2
ENGL2640
Shakespeare 		6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English.
N ENGL2040
Semester 1
ENGL2650
Reading Poetry 		6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English
N ENGL2050
Semester 1
ENGL2653
Western Theories of Language
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 12 Junior credit points in English or (6 Junior credit points in English and AMST1001) or (12 junior credit points in Linguistics)
N ENGL2053
Semester 1
ENGL2654
Novel Worlds 		6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English
Semester 2
ENGL2657
Myths, Legends and Heroes
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 12 Junior credit points in English or (6 Junior credit points in English and AMST1001)
Semester 2
ENGL2660
Reading the Nation: American Literature 		6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English or 12 credit points at 1000 level in American Studies
Semester 2
ENGL2661
Camelot: text, stage, screen 		6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English
Semester 2
ENGL2665
The Victorian Novel 		6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English
Semester 1
ENGL2666
Creative Writing:Theory and Practice 		6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English
Intensive July
Semester 1
Summer Main
ENGL2667
Reading Drama
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P (12 Junior credit points in English) or (6 Junior credit points in English and any of AMST1001, PRFM1601 or PRFM1602)
Semester 2
ENGL2668
Australian Gothic 		6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English
N ASLT2619
Semester 2
ENGL2669
Australian Stage and Screen
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Australian Literature or 12 credit points at 1000 level in English Studies
N ASLT2616 Australian Stage & Screen
Semester 1
ENGL2670
Revolutionary Writing: 1960s and Beyond 		6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Australian Literature or 12 credit points at 1000 level in English
N ASLT2602
Semester 1
ENGL2671
Australian Writing in the Postmodern Age
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Australian Literature or 12 credit points at 1000 level in English Studies
N ASLT2609
Semester 1
ENGL2672
Postcolonial Modernisms/Modernities
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Australian Literature or 12 credit points at 1000 level in English Studies
Semester 1
ENGL2673
Television Fictions 		6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the English major
Semester 2

3000 level units of study
Selective
ENGL3603
Contemporary British Literature
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 18 senior credit points from any of (English or Australian Literature)
Semester 2
ENGL3607
Modern Irish Literature
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 18 Senior credit points from English or Australian Literature
Semester 1
ENGL3608
Transpacific American Literature 		6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
Semester 1
ENGL3611
Issues in the Semiotics of Language 		6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
N ENGL3915
Semester 1
ENGL3616
Reading Contemporary America
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P (18 Senior credit points from English or Australian Literature) or (ARHT2656 and 6 credit points from (ARHT2652 or ARHT2653 or ARHT2655 or ARHT2657 or ASNS3616 or ENGL2627 or ENGL2638 or ENGL3604 or FILM2601 or HSTY2608 or ICLS2637 or MUSC2663))
N ENGL2035 or ENGL2635
Semester 2
ENGL3623
The 18th Century: Scandal and Sociability 		6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
N ENGL2659
Semester 1
ENGL3633
Introduction to Old English 		6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Celtic Studies
N ENGL3621 or ENGL3622 or ENGL3631 or ENGL3632
Semester 2
ENGL3635
Old Norse 		6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Linguistics or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Celtic Studies
N ENGL3631 or ENGL3632 or ENGL3622 or ENGL3621
Semester 1
ENGL3642
Medieval Literature: Dreams and Visions 		6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Celtic Studies
Semester 1
ENGL3651
Christopher Marlowe
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 18 senior credit points in English or Australian Literature
N ENGL3922
Semester 2
ENGL3655
The Literary in Theory 		6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
Semester 2
ENGL3657
The Brontes
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 18 Senior credit points in English or Australian Literature
Semester 1
ENGL3695
Medieval Tales of Wonder
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 18 Senior credit points each in either (English or Australian Literature) or Celtic Studies
Semester 2
ENGL3696
Advanced Creative Writing 		6    P ENGL2666 or 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
Semester 2
ENGL3697
Imagining Jerusalem
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English
Semester 1a
ENGL3701
Major Australian Authors: Depth Study
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in English Studies
N ASLT3608
Semester 2
ENGL3703
Writing Australian Nature
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in English Studies
N ASLT2620
Semester 2
ENGL3705
Writing Country: Indigenous Ecopoetics 		6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Indigenous Studies
Semester 2
ENGL3706
African American Literature
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in English Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in American Studies
Semester 1
ENGL3707
Text, Action and Ideology
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in English Studies
Semester 1
ENGL3711
Travellers' Tales 		6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
N ENGL2648 or ENGL2048
Semester 1
ENGL3710
Utopias and Dystopias: Literature; Films; TV 		6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
Semester 1
ENGL3709
Global Literature and Times of Perpetual War 		6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
Semester 2
ENGL3708
Love and Desire in Early Modern England 		6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
Semester 2
JCTC3603
Representing the Holocaust 		6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the Jewish Civilisation, Thought and Culture major, International and Comparative Literature Studies major, English Studies major or European Studies major.
 Semester 2

Interdisciplinary project unit of study
ENGL3998
Industry and Community Project 		6    P Interdisciplinary Impact in any major
Intensive December
Intensive February
Intensive January
Intensive July
Semester 1
Semester 2
ENGL3999
Interdisciplinary Impact 		6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English
N Interdisciplinary Impact in another major
Semester 1
Semester 2

Honours
Honours in English requires 48 credit points from this table including:
(i) 30 credit points of 4000-level Honours thesis units
(ii) 18 credit points of 4000-level Honours seminar unit

Honours seminar units of study
ENGL4113
Approaches to Critical Reading 		6      Semester 1
ENGL4114
Approaches to Literary History 		6      Semester 2
ENGL4115
Approaches to Global English Literatures 		6      Semester 1
ENGL4116
Approaches to Genre 		6      Semester 2
ENGL4117
Henry James and the Art of Fiction
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6      Semester 1
ENGL4118
Modern Australian Poetry and Poetics
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6      Semester 1
ENGL4119
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6      Semester 2
ENGL4120
History Writing in English, 1500 to 1900 		6      Semester 1
ENGL4121
The Secret History of the Novel
This unit of study is not available in 2019

 6      Semester 2
ENGL4122
Critical Contexts for Creative Writing 		6    P ENGL3696
Semester 2
ENGL4123
Reading Suburbia 		6      Semester 1
ENGL4131
Language and Subject 		6      Semester 1
ENGL4130
Old Norse 		6    N ENGL3621 or ENGL3622 or ENGL3631 or ENGL3632 or ENGL3636 or ENGL3635
Semester 1
ENGL4129
Introduction to Old English 		6    N ENGL3621 or ENGL3622 or ENGL3631 or ENGL3632 or ENGL3633
Semester 2
ENGL4128
The Idea of the South 		6      Semester 2
ENGL4127
Wooing Women in Middle English Romance 		6      Semester 1
ENGL4126
Shakespeare and Modernity 		6      Semester 2
ENGL4125
Sentiment and Sensation 		6      Semester 2

Honours thesis units of study
ENGL4111
English Honours Thesis 1 		12      Semester 1
Semester 2
ENGL4112
English Honours Thesis 2 		18      Semester 1
Semester 2

Advanced coursework
The requirements for advanced coursework in English are described in the degree resolutions for the Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Advanced Studies.
24-36 credit points of advanced study will be included in the table for 2020.
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