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Please check the current students website (Find a unit of study) for up-to-date information on units of study including availability.
Unit outlines will be available through Find a unit outline two weeks before the first day of teaching for 1000-level and 5000-level units, or one week before the first day of teaching for all other units.
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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English |
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Major |
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| A major in English requires 48 credit points from this table including: | |||
| (i) 12 credit points of 1000-level selective units | |||
| (ii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core units | |||
| (iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units | |||
| (iv) 18 credit points of 3000-level selective units | |||
| (v) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units | |||
Minor |
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| A minor in English requires 36 credit points from this table including: | |||
| (i) 12 credit points of 1000-level selective units | |||
| (ii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core units | |||
| (iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units | |||
| (iv) 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units | |||
1000 level units of study |
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Selective |
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| ENGL1007 Englishes: Language Society Text Time |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| ENGL1013 Global Literatures in English |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| ENGL1014 Creative Writing |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| ENGL1016 Imagining the Black Atlantic This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| ENGL1017 The Idea of the Classic |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| ENGL1018 The Medieval Imaginary |
6 | N ENGL2657 |
Semester 2 |
| ENGL1019 Jane Austen, Then and Now This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | N ENGL2611 |
Semester 1 |
2000 level units of study |
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Core |
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| ENGL2674 The Life of Texts |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the English major |
Semester 2 |
Selective |
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| ENGL2617 Postmodernism |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English or 6 credit points at 1000 level in English and AMST1001 or (AMST1001 and (HSTY1076 or HSTY1023)) or 18 credit points at 1000 level including ENGL1011 N ENGL2017 |
Semester 1 |
| ENGL2627 Screening Sexuality |
6 | P 6 credit points at 1000 level in the English major or 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Film Studies major N ENGL2027 |
Semester 1 |
| ENGL2654 Novel Worlds |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level including 6 credit points in the English major |
Semester 2 |
| ENGL2666 Creative Writing:Theory and Practice |
6 | P 6 credit points at 1000 level in English |
Semester 1 |
| ENGL2672 Postcolonial Modernisms/Modernities This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Australian Literature or 12 credit points at 1000 level in English Studies |
Semester 1 |
| ENGL2675 Literary and textual theories This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the English major |
Semester 2 |
3000 level units of study |
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Selective |
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| ENGL3607 Modern Irish Literature This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 18 Senior credit points from English or Australian Literature |
Semester 2 |
| ENGL3608 Transpacific American Literature This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature N ENGL2664 |
Semester 1 |
| 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 2 |
| ENGL3633 Introduction to Old English |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level including 6 credit points in the English major N ENGL3621 or ENGL3622 or ENGL3631 or ENGL3632 |
Semester 2 |
| ENGL3642 Medieval Literature: Dreams and Visions This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 |
| ENGL3655 The Literary in Theory This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature |
Semester 1 |
| ENGL3657 The Brontes |
6 | P 18 credit points at 2000 level from English or Australian Literature |
Semester 1 |
| ENGL3695 Medieval Tales of Wonder |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level including 6 credit points in the English major |
Semester 1 |
| ENGL3696 Advanced Creative Writing |
6 | P ENGL2666 or 12 credit points at 2000 level in English |
Semester 2 |
| ENGL3705 Writing Country: Indigenous Ecopoetics This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 2 |
| ENGL3706 African American Literature |
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 2 |
| ENGL3707 Text, Action and Ideology |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in English Studies |
Semester 2 |
| 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 1 |
| ENGL3710 Utopias and Dystopias: Literature; Films; TV This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature |
Semester 1 |
| ENGL3711 Travellers' Tales This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the English major N ENGL2648 or ENGL2048 |
Semester 1 |
| ENGL3712 Television Fictions This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the English major N ENGL2673 |
Semester 2 |
| ENGL3713 Shakespeare This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the English major N ENGL2640 |
Semester 2 |
| CLST3614 Middle Welsh This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Celtic Studies N CLST2604 |
Semester 2 |
| CLST3615 Old Irish |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Celtic Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in the English major N CLST2606 |
Semester 1 |
| JCTC3603 Representing the Holocaust This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 |
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| If you are completing two majors and both of your majors are from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your first major, and the Industry and Community Project unit of study for your second major. | |||
| If you are completing two majors but only one of your majors is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for that major. | |||
| If you are completing one major only and that major is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your major. | |||
| FASS3999 Interdisciplinary Impact |
6 | P Completion of at least 90 credit points Note: Department permission required for enrolment in the following sessions:Intensive December |
Intensive December Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| ENGL3999 Interdisciplinary Impact This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P Completion of at least 90 credit points N Interdisciplinary Impact in another major Note: Department permission required for enrolment in the following sessions:Intensive December |
Intensive December Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| ENGL3998 Industry and Community Project |
6 | P 72 credit points C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major |
Intensive February Intensive July Semester 1 Semester 2 |