The English major 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.
Learning Outcomes
- analyse texts by diverse authors and in different genres in several important fields of literary studies in English;
- evaluate the historical and cultural contexts in which literature in English has been written and shaped;
- analyze literary texts in relation to these contexts;
- interpret, evaluate and make an argument about texts using appropriate written expression; and
- undertake further study within the discipline.
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
This major requires the completion of 48 units, which must include:
12 units from the completion of the following course(s):
ENGL1014 - Close Encounters: How to Read Literature (6 units)
ENGL1013 - Reading across Time and Space: Literary Contexts (6 units)
A maximum of 30 units from the completion of the following list:
ENGL2006 - Modern American Fiction (6 units)
ENGL2011 - Contemporary Australian Writing (6 units)
ENGL2015 - Introduction to Creative Writing (6 units)
ENGL2101 - Modern European Theatre (6 units)
LING2020 - Structure of English (6 units)
ENGL2108 - Modern Australian Drama (6 units)
ENGL2055 - Shakespeare and Film (6 units)
FILM2066 - Australian Cinema: The Kelly Gang to Baz Luhrmann's Australia (6 units)
ENGL2067 - Adaptation: From Text to Screen (6 units)
GEND2021 - Trauma, Memory and Culture (6 units)
ENGL2068 - Empire and its Fictions (6 units)
ENGL2074 - Jane Austen History and Fiction (6 units)
ENGL2115 - 20th Century American Drama (6 units)
ENGL2077 - Creative Writing 2: Story to Script (6 units)
ENGL2078 - Creative Writing 3: Advanced Fiction (6 units)
LING2104 - The History of the English Language (6 units)
ENGL2081 - Australian Crimes: Crime narratives on page, stage and screen (6 units)
ENGL2080 - Modernist Literature 1890-1940 (6 units)
ENGL2083 - Foundations of Drama (6 units)
ENGL2084 - Poetry in English from Shakespeare to Postmodernism (6 units)
ENGL2085 - Strange Home: Rethinking Australian Literature (6 units)
ENGL2086 - Literature in the Digital Age: Theories, Texts, Methods (6 units)
ENGL2116 - Televisual: Investigating Narrative Television (6 units)
ENGL2117 - The Politics of Comedy from the Globe to The Office (6 units)
ENGL2038 - Revolution and Romanticism in British Literature, 1789-1832 (6 units)
6 - 18 units from the completion of the following:
ENGL3005 - 16th, 17th and 18th Century Literature(H) (6 units)
ENGL3021 - Nineteenth Century US Literature (6 units)
ENGL3022 - 19th and 20th Century Literature (6 units)
ENGL3008 - Introduction to Literary Theory (6 units)
ENGL3036 - Victorian Literature (6 units)
ENGL3034 - Queens and Tyrants: Gender and Power in Drama 1580-1630 (6 units)
GEND3016 - Writing Lives: Autobiography in Fiction and Memoir (6 units)
ENGL3037 - Literature, Law and Human Rights (6 units)
CLAS3000 - Rhetoric: The Art of Persuasion in the Ancient and Modern Worlds (6 units)
SCRN3002 - Screening the Real (6 units)
ENGL3052 - Marx, Nietzsche, Freud: Introduction to European Critical Theory (6 units)
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