Course rule and topic information

Bachelor of Arts

English major sequence

The following is the program of study [November, 2008] for a 33-unit major sequence in English within a Bachelor of Arts and should be read in conjunction with the course rule for the BA.

Not every topic is offered every year. Please consult the First Year English Handbook and the English 2.3 Upper Level Topics Handbook (available from the English Office).

33 units comprising:

First Year

9 units from the following:

ENGL1001	Professional English	4.5
ENGL1003	Imagined Worlds: Approaches to Literature	4.5
ENGL1004	Writing Australia	4.5
ENGL1007	Short Stories and their Writers	4.5
ENGL1008	Fictions and Transformations	4.5
ENGL1013	Professional English for Teachers *	4.5

* This topic is restricted to students enrolled in the combined Education degrees only (Early Childhood, Junior Primary/Primary, Middle School and Secondary).

Students generally take ENGL1003 and either ENGL1004 or ENGL1007 but any combination of the topics listed above is allowable.

Second and Third Years

24 units, including 18 units from Group A:

Group A

DRAM2510	Comedy and Satire	6
ENGL2101	Private Parts: Sex, Love and Marriage in 19th century British Literature	6
ENGL2104	Shakespeare	6
ENGL2109	Dethroning the Gods: Literary Modernism and its Enemies	6
ENGL2111	Adaptations: Reading Texts and Film	6
ENGL2112	Past Reading: Contemporary Historical Fictions	6
ENGL2210	Chaucer and Middle English Literature	6
ENGL2220	Scottish and Irish Literature	6
ENGL2240	Traditional Literatures	6
ENGL2260	Twenty-First Century Literature: Texts and Contexts	6
ENGL2261	Post-Colonial Literature and Cultures	6
ENGL2302	Fiction for Young Readers	6
ENGL2410	Life Writing: Reading and Writing the Self	6
ENGL2420	The Anglo-Saxon World	6
ENGL2506	Ripping Yarns: Telling Stories of Empire	6
ENGL2508	Crime Fiction and Film: From Poe to the Postmodern	6
SCRN3008	Narrative and Storytelling	6

Group B

ENGL2007	Professional Writing**	6
ENGL2110	Writing and Designing for the Web	6
ENGL2300	Writing for Children	6
ENGL2301	The Craft of Poetry	6
ENGL2500	Creative Nonfiction	6
ENGL2503	Introduction to Creative Writing	6
ENGL2507	Wish You Were Here: Workshopping Travel Writing	6
ENGL2600	Publishing and Editing	6
MDIA2104	Creating Digital Texts	6
PROF2101	Professional Writing **	6

** Students completing PROF2101 Professional Writing will NOT be permitted to enrol in ENGL2007.