• Total units 24 Units
  • Areas of interest English
  • Minor code ENGL-MIN
  • Academic career Undergraduate
English Minor

The English minor at the ANU offers a wide range of courses reflecting the diversity of the discipline of literary studies in English. There are courses in all the main fields of post-medieval British literary studies from the late sixteenth century to the present day, including the Early Modern, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century, Romantic and Victorian, Modern and Contemporary periods. There are courses in Australian, US, postcolonial and transnational literatures in English; in literary and cultural theory; in drama, film, new media, and creative writing. English 1000 level-courses introduce students to major genres and modes of writing and to literary-critical practice. English 2000/3000 level courses enable students to broaden and develop their knowledge and enjoyment of literature in a variety of important specialist fields.     

 

On completion of the English minor a student will have:

 

  • acquired  knowledge of major authors, works, and genres in several important fields of literary studies in Englishacquired knowledge of the diverse historical and cultural contexts in which English literature has been written and shaped.
  • enhanced capacity to analyze literary texts and their contexts
  • developed skills of critical inquiry, interpretation and evaluation, argument, and written expression
  • knowledge and skills to undertake further study within the discipline
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Requirements

This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:

A minimum of 6 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code Title Units
ENGL1013 Reading across Time and Space: Literary Contexts 6
ENGL1014 Close Encounters: How to Read Literature 6

A maximum of 18 units may come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code Title Units
ENGL2006 Modern American Fiction 6
ENGL2011 Contemporary Australian Writing 6
ENGL2055 Shakespeare and Film 6
ENGL2067 Novel into Film 6
ENGL2068 Empire and its Fictions 6
ENGL2074 Jane Austen History and Fiction 6
ENGL2076 Creative Writing 6
ENGL2077 Creative Writing 2: Story to Script 6
ENGL2078 Creative Writing 3: Advanced Fiction 6
ENGL2080 Modernist Literature 1890-1940 6
ENGL2081 Australian Crimes: Crime narratives on page, stage and screen 6
ENGL2082 Literature and Human Rights 6
ENGL2083 Foundations of Drama 6
ENGL2084 Poetry in English from Shakespeare to Postmodernism 6
ENGL2085 Strange Home: Rethinking Australian Literature 6
ENGL2086 Literature in the Digital Age: Theories, Texts, Methods 6
ENGL2101 Modern European Theatre 6
ENGL2108 Modern Australian Drama 6
ENGL2115 20th Century American Drama 6
ENGL3005 16th, 17th and 18th Century Literature(H) 6
ENGL3006 European Narrative (English) 6
ENGL3007 Post-Colonial Literature 6
ENGL3008 Introduction to Literary Theory 6
ENGL3021 Nineteenth Century US Literature 6
ENGL3022 19th and 20th Century Literature 6
ENGL3034 Renaissance Drama 6
ENGL3036 Victorian Literature 6
FILM2066 Australian Cinema: The Kelly Gang to Baz Luhrmann's Australia 6
GEND2021 Trauma, Memory and Culture 6
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