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:
ENGL1100 Secrets and Lies: Literature and the Self
ENGL1200 Imagined Worlds
A maximum of 18 units from the following 2000 level course list:
ENGL2015 Creative Writing
ENGL2020 Texts in Performance
ENGL2022 Jane Austen: History and Fiction
ENGL2023 Feeling Bad in Contemporary Literature
ENGL2027 Queens, Tyrants, Traitors: Power Play on the Early Modern Stage
ENGL2040 The Making of Literature: Topics in Literary Production and Reception
ENGL2067 Adaptation: From Text to Screen
ENGL2068 Empire: The Black Atlantic and Colonial Romanticism
ENGL2077 Creative Writing 2: Story to Script to Performance
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: Special Topics in Gender, Authorship and History
ENGL2230 Poetry and Activism
ENGL2789 Writing Climate
LING2020 Structure of English
A minimum of 18 units from the following 3000 level course list:
ENGL3005 The Evolution of Comedy: Early Modern to Eighteenth Century
ENGL3008 The Meaning of Monsters: Frankenstein and Literary Theory
ENGL3021 American Literature: Nature, Retreat, Experiment
ENGL3022 Make It New: Innovation and Experiment in Modernist Literature, 1910-1940
ENGL3036 Victorian Literature
ENGL3037 Literature, Law and Human Rights
ENGL3078 Advanced Creative Writing: Genre and Literary Value
ENGL3100 English Capstone: Understanding, Communicating, Creating
GEND3016 Writing Lives: Autobiography in Fiction and Memoir
A maximum of 12 units may come from completion of courses from the following list:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ENGL 1004: Intro to Aust Lit | ||
| ENGL 1008: Intro to Novel | ||
| ENGL 1009: Exploring Poetry | ||
| ENGL 1012: My Generation: Narratives |
A minimum of 36 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| ENGL 2108: Mod Aust Drama | ||
| ENGL 2005: 19th Century US Literature | ||
| ENGL 2006: Modern American Fiction | ||
| ENGL 2008: 19th & 20th C Lit | ||
| ENGL 2009: Intro to Literary Theory | ||
| ENGL 2011: Contemp Aust Writing | ||
| ENGL 2012: Renaissance Drama | ||
| ENGL 3007: Post-Colonial Literature | ||
| ENGL 2055: Shakespeare and Film | ||
| ENGL 2061: Victorian Literature | ||
| FILM 2066: Australian Cinema: Kelly Gang | ||
| ENGL2067 | Adaptation: From Text to Screen | 6 |
| ENGL2068 | Empire: the Black Atlantic and Colonial Romanticism | 6 |
| ENGL 2069: Modern Novel Into Film | ||
| ENGL 2074: Jane Austen Hist & Fict | ||
| ENGL 2076: Creative Writing | ||
| ENGL2077 | Creative Writing 2: Story to Script to Performance | 6 |
| ENGL 2078: Creative Writing 3: Adv Fictio | ||
| ENGL 2080: Modernist Literature 1890-1940 | ||
| ENGL 2081: Australian Crimes | ||
| ENGL 2082: Literature and Human Rights | ||
| ENGL3005 | The Evolution of Comedy: Early Modern to Eighteenth Century | 6 |
| GEND 2016: Writing Lives: Autobiography | ||
| GEND 2024: Gender in Humanities | ||
| LANG 3003: Cont Euro Narrative | ||
| LING 2104: History of English | ||
| LING2020 | Structure of English | 6 |
| ENGL 2115: 20th Century American Drama | ||
| ENGL2101: Mod Europ Theatre |