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;
analyse 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 1000 level courses:
ENGL1013 - Reading Across Time and Space: Literary Contexts
ENGL1014 - Close Encounters: How to Read Literature
A maximum of 30 units from the following 2000 level course list:
ENGL2015 - Creative Writing
ENGL2020 - Texts in Performance
ENGL2040 -The Making of Literature: Topics in Literary Production and Reception
ENGL2067 - Adaptation: From Text to Screen
ENGL2068 - Empire and its Fictions
ENGL2077 - Creative Writing 2: Story to Script to Performance
ENGL2078 - Creative Writing 3: Advanced Fiction
ENGL2085 - Strange Home: Rethinking Australian Literature
ENGL2087 - Reality Effects: Truth, Representation and Narrative Form
ENGL2111 - Imaginary Journeys: Writing Travel in Australian Literature and Film
ENGL2116 - Televisual: Investigating Narrative Television
ENGL2222 - Great Writers: Gender, Authorship and History
LING2020 - Structure of English
LING2104 - The History of the English Language
A minimum of 6 and a maximum of 18 units from the following 3000 level course list:
ENGL3005 - Early Modern to Eighteenth Century Literature (H)
ENGL3008 - Theories and Methodologies for Literary Studies
ENGL3021 - American Literature: Nature, Retreat, Experiment
ENGL3022 - Literature and Modernity
ENGL3036 - Victorian Literature
ENGL3037 - Literature, Law and Human Rights
GEND3016 - Writing Lives: Autobiography in Fiction and Memoir
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