|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
| Old Course Code | Subject Area | Catalogue Number | Long Title | Units | Description |
| EN107 | ENGL | 1100 | Introduction to Australian Literature | 2 | Thorough study of small selection of Australian literary texts; introduction to ways of reading & discussing a literary text; literary genres & contexts; distinctive qualities of Australian literature. |
| EN109 | ENGL | 1400 | Approaches to Literature | 2 | Some central modern critical approaches to reading of literature discussed & demonstrated in terms of how several selected literary texts (e.g. some poems, stories & a novel) might be read. |
| EN110 | ENGL | 1000 | Introduction to British Literature | 2 | Introduction to representative concerns, forms & contexts of British literature to beginning of 20thC. |
| EN117 | ENGL | 1200 | Introduction to American Literatures | 2 | Introduction to a diverse range of writings in English in the Americas, focusing on post-colonial issues including land, discovery & cross-cultural encounters. |
| EN151 | WRIT | 1000 | Introduction to Academic Writing & Research | 2 | Introduction to academic discourse. Skills of academic writing, reading & research. Examination of various written genres & their effects. |
| EN152 | CCST | 1000 | Introduction to Communication & Cultural Studies | 2 | Introduction to analysis of language & signs in everyday culture. Texts from spoken, written, visual & electronic media, their functions & the ways in which they produce meaning. |
| EN201 | ENGL | 2010 | Renaissance Literature | 2 | Study of Renaissance representations of various cultural issues including politics, religion, gender & selfhood. |
| EN202 | ENGL | 2020 | Eighteenth-Century Literature | 2 | Major texts with a particular focus on enlightenment thought & the realms of being that it represses. |
| EN203 | ENGL | 2025 | Romanticism | 2 | Four or more of major romantic poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Byron, Shelley; 1 or 2 prose works of period. |
| EN204 | ENGL | 2030 | Nineteenth-Century & Victorian Literature | 2 | Examination of important nineteenth-century & Victorian prose & poetry. |
| EN205 | ENGL | 2035 | Modernism | 2 | Selected works of prose, poetry & drama by major 20thC writers, bringing out both their intrinsic qualities & their relationship to period. |
| EN207 | ENGL | 2015 | Seventeenth-Century & Restoration Literature | 2 | Study of fiction, drama, poetry & prose from the later 17thC, focusing on issues of politics, morality, religion & sexuality. |
| EN208 | CCST | 2100 | Language in the Media | 2 | Techniques for analysis of language & speech in various media including radio, the Internet, magazines & newspapers. |
| EN210 | ENGL | 2300 | American Literature A | 2 | Romanticism & realism in 19thC American literature with emphasis on cultural & intellectual background of writers studied. |
| EN211 | ENGL | 2310 | American Literature B | 2 | Major American writers of 20thC with emphasis on cultural & intellectual background. |
| EN218 | ENGL | 2040 | Studies in Literary Genres & Traditions | 2 | The development of a novel genre from the 18th century, contextualising its tropes & narrative conventions in terms of broader cultural & historical issues. In 2001 the genre will be the Gothic. |
| EN220 | ENGL | 2400 | Literary Theory & Criticism A | 2 | Changing attitudes & critical criteria in literature from Plato to Wordsworth & Coleridge. Underlying philosophical theories dealt with concurrently. |
| EN221 | ENGL | 2410 | Literary Theory & Criticism B | 2 | Change in opinions, theories & evaluations of literature from Matthew Arnold to present, focusing on recent theoretically based approaches & crisis in English studies. |
| EN230 | ENGL | 2200 | Post-Colonial Literatures A | 2 | Recent writing in English from India, Africa & West Indies considered in context of local historical & cultural patterns & problems raised by their clash with British culture. |
| EN231 | ENGL | 2600 | Twentieth Century Literature & Society | 2 | The 20s & 60s: comparative study of dialectic of liberation, social & sexual, as demonstrated in various English, American & Australian literary works of these two decades. |
| EN232 | ENGL | 2500 | Twentieth Century Women Writers | 2 | Investigation of work of women writers in Australia, France, America & UK, their relationship with their society & questions raised by feminist literary theory. |
| EN248 | ENGL | 2510 | Recent Women’s Writing | 2 | Examination of women’s recent literary production, from several countries, with emphasis on feminist critical & political debates. |
| EN249 | ENGL | 2210 | Post-Colonial Literatures B | 2 | Study of literatures of Canada, South Africa & Australia as post-colonial literatures. |
| EN250 | CCST | 2220 | Cultural Studies Theory | 2 | Outline of major theoretical concepts within cultural studies theory in Britain & Australia, focusing particularly on texts, audiences & analysis of popular culture. |
| EN251 | CCST | 2120 | Social Strategies & Language | 2 | Study of how language encodes social identity with emphasis on attitudes, prejudice & stereotyping. |
| EN254 | CCST | 2130 | Spoken Communication | 2 | Nature of talk, with emphasis on its language, forms, strategies & social functions. |
| EN255 | CCST | 2200 | Ideology, Media and Culture | 2 | Examination of relation between cultural forms & social power through analysis of a range of verbal & visual texts, with particular reference to mass media. |
| EN256 | CCST | 2110 | Language, Rhetoric & Social Institutions | 2 | Exploration of way language is used for communicative purposes in social institutions of politics, law, medicine & bureaucracy. |
| EN257 | CCST | 1300 | Introduction to Film & Television Studies | 2 | Reading of screen texts & analysis of their institutional & technical determinants. |
| EN259 | CCST | 2320 | Advanced Film & Television Studies | 2 | Develops skills & theoretical concepts established in CCST1300 [EN257], concentrating on documentaries & theories of ‘reading’ film & related sets of issues around audiences. |
| EN261 | CCST | 2300 | Film Movements & Genres | 2 | Study of major texts from national cinemas, film movements & narrative modes which have become central points of reference in contemporary screen studies. |
| EN262 | ABTS | 2040 | Black Australian Literature A | 2 | Study of writing of black Australians & how it reflects & recreates dimensions of black Australian consciousness. |
| EN264 | ENGL | 2610 | Working Class Writing | 2 | Exploration of ‘working class writing’, relating various texts to their social, political & historical conditions of production & to relevant critical & political debates. |
| EN266 | ABTS | 2050 | Black Australian Literature B | 2 | Study of four Black novelists & four Black playwrights provides foundation for testing theoretical & ideological persuasions of Black Australian critics & creative writers. |
| EN267 | CCST | 2210 | Popular Fiction | 2 | Investigation of the industry & practices producing, distributing & promoting popular fiction; of representative texts; & of studies of audiences for such fiction. |
| EN270 | CCST | 2330 | Television & Popular Culture | 2 | Investigation of role of television within popular culture, examining television programs as texts & ways in which viewers incorporate them into their cultural practices. |
| EN276 | ENGL | 2100 | Approaches to Australian Writing | 2 | Consideration of major developments in Australian literature within context of key debates in culture, politics & criticism in 19th & 20th centuries. |
| EN277 | ENGL | 2110 | Topics in Australian Literary Culture | 2 | Significant texts in Australian literary culture examined in light of contemporary critical & scholarly approaches; content varies from time to time to reflect contemporary issues in Australian literary studies. |
| EN278 | ENGL | 2120 | Current Issues in Australian Writing | 2 | Australian literary texts examined in light of current debates & controversies; content varies from time to time to reflect contemporary issues in Australian literary studies. |
| EN279 | ENGL | 2220 | Short Stories of the Americas | 2 | Short fiction from Canada, the USA and the Caribbean, considered in its cultural and regional contexts. |
| EN280 | ENGL | 2000 | Early Medieval Literature | 2 | Study of selected Anglo-Saxon texts in their historical & cultural contexts, with some readings in original language, incorporating some basic instruction in Old English. |
| EN281 | ENGL | 2005 | Late Medieval Literature | 2 | Selection of 14thC texts, including Chaucer, in context of social & cultural history of period, incorporating some basic instruction in middle English. |
| EN286 | WRIT | 2000 | Professional Writing | 2 | This course covers key theoretical principles & practical applications of writing in the professional workplace. |
| EN287 | CCST | 2310 | Australian Cinema | 2 | Introduces students to major films produced by, & industrial structure of, the Australian cinema since revival of the 1970s. |
| EN288 | ENGL | 2055 | Studies in British Literature & Society | 2 | Examination of interactions between social & political conditions & British literature across different genres & historical periods. |
| EN289 | ENGL | 2050 | Alternative Traditions in British Literature | 2 | An examination of generic & stylistic variation & innovation in British literature across different cultural contexts & historical periods. In 2001 the topic will be Science Fiction & Fantasy. |
| EN294 | ENGL | 2420 | Literary Theory & Criticism C | 2 | Considers some principal issues & methodologies in recent literary & critical theory. |
| EN297 | ENGL | 2045 | British Women Writers | 2 | British women’s writing considered in relation to the construction – and resistance to – “proper” feminine behaviour. |
| EN298 | ENGL | 2320 | Literature & Environment | 2 | Examines works from the USA, Canada & Australia which portray a variety of interactions among people, animals & environments, and which reflect and help to frame awareness of environmental issues. |
| EN310 | ENGL | 3010 | Special Research Topic A | 1 | No prescribed syllabus or formal teaching. In consultation with convenor students choose topic for study under direction of supervisors. For students whose previous record suggests an outstanding capacity for criticism & research. |
| EN311 | ENGL | 3011 | Special Research Topic B | 1 | No prescribed syllabus or formal teaching. In consultation with convenor students choose topic for study under direction of supervisors. For students whose previous record suggests an outstanding capacity for criticism & research. |
| EN312 | ENGL | 3012 | Special Research Topic C | 2 | No prescribed syllabus. Topic or topics to be studied under direction of supervisor. |
| EN351 | CCST | 3200 | Representations | 2 | Theory of literary & nonliterary representations, encompassing semiotics, poststructuralist debates & cultural studies theory, focusing on texts illustrating struggle for control over representation in films & writing. |
| EN370 | ENGL | 3000 | Research Methods | 2 | Seminars and practical training in designing a large research project in literature, drama, communication, media or cultural studies; undertaking research using electronic database, print, manuscript and archive sources; textual analysis and criticism, an |
| EN431 | CCST | 6000 | Communication & Cultural Studies A | 2 | This course may be taken as part of a generic English Honours program. |
| EN432 | CCST | 6010 | Communication & Cultural Studies B | 2 | This course may be taken as part of a generic English Honours program. |
| EN433 | CCST | 6020 | Communication & Cultural Studies C | 4 | This course may be taken as part of a generic English Honours program. |
| EN434 | DRAM | 6000 | Drama Seminar A | 2 | This course may be taken as part of a generic English Honours program. |
| EN435 | DRAM | 6010 | Drama Seminar B | 2 | This course may be taken as part of a generic English Honours program. |
| EN436 | DRAM | 6020 | Drama Seminar C | 4 | This course may be taken as part of a generic English Honours program. |
| EN441 | ENGL | 6000 | Literature Seminar A | 2 | This course may be taken as part of a generic English Honours program. |
| EN442 | ENGL | 6010 | Literature Seminar B | 2 | This course may be taken as part of a generic English Honours program. |
| EN443 | ENGL | 6020 | Literature Seminar C | 4 | This course may be taken as part of a generic English Honours program. |
| EN444 | ENGL | 6030 | Literature Seminar D | 2 | This course may be taken as part of a generic English Honours program. |
| EN445 | ENGL | 6040 | Literature Seminar E | 2 | This course may be taken as part of a generic English Honours program. |
| EN446 | ENGL | 6050 | Literature Seminar F | 4 | This course may be taken as part of a generic English Honours program. |
| EN447 | ENGL | 6060 | Literature Seminar G | 2 | This course may be taken as part of a generic English Honours program. |
| EN448 | ENGL | 6070 | Literature Seminar H | 2 | This course may be taken as part of a generic English Honours program. |
| EN449 | ENGL | 6080 | Literature Seminar I | 4 | This course may be taken as part of a generic English Honours program. |
| EN478 | ENGL | 6101 | Literature Dissertation | 8 | This course may be taken as part of a generic English Honours program. Students commencing course in Semester 1 enrol in ENGL6100; students commencing in Semester 2 enrol in ENGL6101. |
| EN478 | ENGL | 6100 | Literature Dissertation | 8 | This course may be taken as part of a generic English Honours program. Students commencing course in Semester 1 enrol in ENGL6100; students commencing in Semester 2 enrol in ENGL6101. |
| EN707 | AUST | 6130 | Australian Literature: Nation & Genre | 2 | Introduces Australian literature as a national literature, with references to the links between literature, society & cultural tradition, & introduces approaches to ways of reading & discussing fiction, poetry & drama. |
| EN776 | AUST | 6140 | Critical Debates in Australian Literature | 2 | Considers major developments in Australian literature within the context of key debates in culture, politics & criticism in the 19th & 20th centuries. |