University of Sydney Handbooks - 2018 Archive

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English

Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session

English

Major

A major in English requires 48 credit points from this table including:
(i) 12 credit points of 1000-level units
(ii) 12 credit points of 2000-level units
(iii) 18 credit points of 3000-level units
(iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units

Minor

A minor in English requires 36 credit points from this table including:
(i) 12 credit points of 1000-level units
(ii) 12 credit points of 2000-level units
(iii) 12 credit points of 3000-level units

1000 level units of study

ENGL1002
Narratives of Romance and Adventure
6      Semester 1
ENGL1007
Language, Texts and Time
6      Semester 2
ENGL1011
Introduction to Film Studies
6      Semester 1
Summer Main
ENGL1012
The Gothic Imagination
6      Semester 1
ENGL1013
Global Literatures in English
6      Semester 2
ENGL1014
Creative Writing
6      Semester 1
ENGL1026
Constructing the Fictive Self
6      Semester 2

2000 level units of study

Selective
ENGL2603
Imagining America

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P (12 Junior credit points from English) or (6 Junior credit points from English and AMST1001) or (AMST1001 and (HSTY1076 or HSTY1023))
N ENGL2003
Semester 2
ENGL2605
Literary Theory: An Introduction
6    P 12 Junior credit points in English or 6 Junior credit points in English and AMST1001
N ENGL3910 or ENGL3920 or ASLT3602 or ENGL3962
Semester 2
ENGL2611
Jane Austen, Then and Now
6    P 12 Junior credit points in English or 6 Junior credit points from English and AMST1001
N ENGL2011
Semester 2
ENGL2613
Literature, Politics and Modernity
6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English
N ENGL2013
Semester 1
ENGL2617
Postmodernism
6    P 12 Junior credit points in English or 6 Junior credit points in English and AMST1001 or (AMST1001 and (HSTY1076 or HSTY1023)) or 18 Junior credit points including ENGL1011
N ENGL2017
Semester 2
ENGL2638
Literature and Cinema
6    P 12 Junior credit points in English or (6 Junior credit points from English and AMST1001) or 18 Junior credit points including ENGL1011
N ENGL2038
Intensive June
Semester 2
ENGL2640
Shakespeare

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P (12 junior credit points from English) or (6 junior credit points from English and AMST 1001) or (12 junior credit points from at least one of the following: European Studies, European, Middle Eastern or Classical Languages/Studies, Asian Studies, English, Government and International Relations, Ancient History, Philosophy, Political Economy, Sociology or Media and Communication)
N ENGL2040
Semester 1
Winter Main
ENGL2653
Western Theories of Language
6    P 12 Junior credit points in English or (6 Junior credit points in English and AMST1001) or (12 junior credit points in Linguistics)
N ENGL2053
Semester 1
ENGL2654
Novel Worlds

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P (12 junior credit points from English) or (6 junior credit points from English and AMST1001)
Semester 2
ENGL2657
Myths, Legends and Heroes
6    P 12 Junior credit points in English or (6 Junior credit points in English and AMST1001)
Semester 2
ENGL2660
Reading the Nation: American Literature

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P ((12 junior credit points from English) or (6 junior credit points from English and AMST1001)) or (AMST1001 and (HSTY1023 or HSTY1076))
Semester 2
ENGL2661
Imagining Camelot

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P (12 junior credit points from English) or (6 junior credit points from English and AMST1001)
Semester 1
ENGL2665
The Victorian Novel

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P (12 Junior credit point from English) or (6 Junior credit points from English and AMST1001)
Semester 1
ENGL2666
Creative Writing:Theory and Practice
6    P 12 Junior credit points
Semester 1
Summer Main
ENGL2667
Reading Drama
6    P (12 Junior credit points in English) or (6 Junior credit points in English and any of AMST1001, PRFM1601 or PRFM1602)
Semester 2
ENGL2669
Australian Stage and Screen
6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Australian Literature or 12 credit points at 1000 level in English Studies
N ASLT2616 Australian Stage & Screen
Semester 1
ENGL2671
Australian Writing in the Postmodern Age
6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Australian Literature or 12 credit points at 1000 level in English Studies
N ASLT2609
Semester 1
ENGL2672
Postcolonial Modernisms/Modernities
6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Australian Literature or 12 credit points at 1000 level in English Studies
Semester 1

3000 level units of study

Selective
ENGL3603
Contemporary British Literature

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 18 senior credit points from any of (English or Australian Literature)
Semester 2
ENGL3607
Modern Irish Literature

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 18 Senior credit points from English or Australian Literature
Semester 1
ENGL3609
Mapping American Literature

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P (18 Senior credit points from English or Australian Literature) or (12 Senior credit points of American Studies including AMST2601)
Semester 1
ENGL3611
Issues in the Semiotics of Language

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 18 Senior credit points from English or Australian Literature
N ENGL3915
Semester 1
ENGL3616
Reading Contemporary America

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P (18 Senior credit points from English or Australian Literature) or (ARHT2656 and 6 credit points from (ARHT2652 or ARHT2653 or ARHT2655 or ARHT2657 or ASNS3616 or ENGL2627 or ENGL2638 or ENGL3604 or FILM2601 or HSTY2608 or ICLS2637 or MUSC2663))
N ENGL2035 or ENGL2635
Semester 2
ENGL3623
The 18th Century: Scandal and Sociability

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 18 senior credit points from English or Australian Literature
N ENGL2659
Semester 1
ENGL3633
Introduction to Old English
6    P 18 Senior credit points each in any of (English or Australian Literature), Linguistics or Celtic Studies
N ENGL3621 or ENGL3622 or ENGL3631 or ENGL3632
Semester 1
ENGL3642
Medieval Literature: Dreams and Visions

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P (18 senior credit points from English or Australian Literature) or (18 senior credit points from Celtic Studies)
Semester 2
ENGL3651
Christopher Marlowe
6    P 18 senior credit points in English or Australian Literature
N ENGL3922
Semester 2
ENGL3655
The Literary in Theory

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P 18 Senior credit points from English or Australian Literature
Semester 2
ENGL3657
The Brontes
6    P 18 Senior credit points in English or Australian Literature
Semester 1
ENGL3695
Medieval Tales of Wonder
6    P 18 Senior credit points each in either (English or Australian Literature) or Celtic Studies
Semester 2
ENGL3696
Advanced Creative Writing
6    P ENGL2666 or 12 credit points at 2000 level in English
Semester 2
ENGL3697
Imagining Jerusalem
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English
Semester 1
ENGL3701
Major Australian Authors: Depth Study
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in English Studies
N ASLT3608
Semester 2
ENGL3703
Writing Australian Nature
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in English Studies
N ASLT2620
Semester 2
ENGL3706
African American Literature
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in English Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in American Studies
Semester 1
ENGL3707
Text, Action and Ideology
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in English Studies
Semester 1

Interdisciplinary project unit of study

FASS3999
Interdisciplinary Impact
6    P 18 credit points at 2000 level

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Semester 1
Semester 2

Honours

Honours in English requires 48 credit points from this table including:
(i) 30 credit points of 4000-level Honours thesis units
(ii) 18 credit points of 4000-level Honours seminar unit

Honours seminar units

ENGL4113
Approaches to Critical Reading
6      Semester 2
ENGL4114
Approaches to Literary History
6      Semester 2
ENGL4115
Approaches to Global English Literatures
6      Semester 1
ENGL4116
Approaches to Genre
6      Semester 1
ENGL4117
Henry James and the Art of Fiction
6      Semester 1
ENGL4118
Modern Australian Poetry and Poetics
6      Semester 1
ENGL4119
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
6      Semester 2
ENGL4121
The Secret History of the Novel
6      Semester 2
ENGL4122
Critical Contexts for Creative Writing
6    P ENGL3696
Semester 1

Honours thesis units

ENGL4111
English Honours Thesis 1
12      Semester 1
Semester 2
ENGL4112
English Honours Thesis 2
18      Semester 1
Semester 2

Advanced coursework

The requirements for advanced coursework in English are described in the degree resolutions for the Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Advanced Studies.
24-36 credit points of advanced study will be included in the table for 2019.