English

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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) 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

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

Selective
ENGL1007
Englishes: Language Society Text Time
6      Semester 1
ENGL1013
Global Literatures in English
6      Semester 2
ENGL1014
Creative Writing
6      Semester 2
ENGL1016
Imagining the Black Atlantic

This unit of study is not available in 2022

6      Semester 1
ENGL1017
The Idea of the Classic
6      Semester 1
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

Core
ENGL2674
The Life of Texts
6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the English major
Semester 2
Selective
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

Selective
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

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