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The Department of English was inaugurated in 1854 as one of the first departments in Australia to offer studies in English literature. The department is recognised nationally and internationally as one of the most exciting and progressive departments of its kind. Academic staff maintain a strong commitment to scholarly values and actively encourage and support students in their passion for literature and writing. Staff are dedicated to fostering memorable learning experiences students will remember their whole lives. In recent decades the department has been at the forefront of disciplinary innovation and current theoretical approaches to critical literary studies. Whether undertaking a major in English literary studies or in the popular creative writing program, students of English have an excellent and flexible preparation for careers in the media and publishing, advertising, education and professional writing. Students who are interested in expanding their interests and knowledge in English are provided with an articulated structure of higher degree study options at the University of Melbourne.
English is the study of literary texts written in the English language from the medieval to the modern era. Traditional ways of thinking, writing and talking about texts have been transformed in recent decades by heightened awareness of theoretical and political assumptions underlying literary criticism. English subjects may be oriented towards the texts themselves, the historical and cultural contexts in which such texts are produced, or the theoretical issues involved in reading texts. A number of subjects approach the task of criticism from methodologies which originate in Marxist, feminist or psychoanalytic thought.
There are no prerequisites for first year subjects in English.
The prerequisite for a second/third year subject in English is usually the completion of two first year subjects in English (25 points). Students who have completed suitable alternative first year subjects are advised to consult with the Department for permission to enrol. Exemptions may also be granted where subjects are taken as part of an approved interdepartmental program with its own entry requirements.
A major in English literary studies usually consists of nine 12.5 point subjects, totalling 112.5 points. It comprises:
two first year subjects in English (25 points), and;
Second/third year subjects in English (totalling 87.5 points). At least four of these subjects must be taken from the following list of English literary studies subjects. The remainder can consist of any second/third year subjects offered in the English Department.
The prerequisites for entry to Fourth Year Honours in English Literary Studies are:
completion of all the requirements for the BA and;
completion of a major in English literary studies and;
an average grade of H2B or higher over the second/third year subjects within the major.
Entry to honours must be approved by the English honours coordinator and the Faculty of Arts honours course adviser. A departmental application form for both pure and combined honours is included in the English honours handbook, available from the department mid-October. Application forms are to be lodged with the department by 17 November. If the student intends enrolling in an English honours thesis the application must include a 200 word thesis proposal. Prospective honours students will be interviewed by the departmental honours coordinator from 4-8 December. Mid-year entry applications must meet the same timetable although a mid-year interview period is provided for students ineligible to apply in December.
Honours coordinator: Annamarie Jagose
Students undertaking pure honours in English literary studies must complete:
106-508 English Thesis or 106-509 English Thesis (MYE) (37.5 points) and;
five honours subjects in English (totalling 62.5 points) including 106-126 Research Principles and Practices (12.5 points).
Students undertaking combined honours in English literary studies and another area of study must complete:
106-508 English Thesis or 106-509 English Thesis (MYE) (37.5 points) and;
two honours subjects in English (totalling 25 points), including 106-126 Research Principles and Practices (12.5 points).
three honours subjects in the combined area of study (totalling 37.5 points).
or
honours thesis in the combined area of study (37.5 points) and;
two honours subjects in the combined area of study (totalling 25 points) and;
three honours subjects in English (totalling 37.5 points), excluding 106-126 Research Principles and Practices
The Department of English offers a number of graduate degrees at different levels in a wide range of literary studies subjects: Graduate Diplomas in English Literary Studies; a Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (English); an MA by advanced seminars and shorter thesis; an MA by thesis; and a PhD.
A degree with a major in English literary studies is an excellent and flexible preparation for careers in journalism and the media, public service, publishing, education, librarianship, information management, and many other roles, public and private, in the communications and service industries.
The Department of English
Second Floor, John Medley Building
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Tel: +61 3 8344 5506/7/8
Web: http://www.english.unimelb.edu.au
106-001 Contemporary Culture and Media
106-002 Modern Literature
106-005 Contemporary Culture and Everyday Life
106-007 Traditions of Shakespeare
106-010 Literature, Culture, History
106-086 Creative Writing 1: Autofictions
106-003 Media and Cultural Difference
106-004 Romanticism and Revolution
106-008 Cultural Consumption
106-009 Print to Pixels: Cultural Histories
106-014 Hong Kong Cinema
106-020 Reading Sexuality
106-022 City Cultures: Urban Stories
106-024 Introduction to Old English A
106-025 Creative Writing 2: Across the Genres
106-026 Writing Fiction
106-027 Writing Scripts
106-028 Writing Poetry
106-029 Introduction to Old English B
106-032 Novel and Film
106-035 Popular Fiction
106-037 Shakespearean Worlds
106-038 Medievalism in Contemporary Culture
106-039 Literary Classics
106-042 Postcolonial Cultural Studies
106-043 The Victorian 'Supernatural'
106-045 Aboriginal Writing
106-046 Australia and the Colonial Imaginary
106-047 Art/Pornography/Blasphemy/Propaganda
106-048 Travel Writing: Zones of the Imagination
106-049 American Liberals and Moderns
106-052 Gothic Fictions
106-053 Chaucer and the Canon
106-056 Character and the Novel
106-060 Decadence
106-061 American Voices
106-063 Aboriginal Cultural Studies
106-064 Contemporary Cultural Studies
106-068 Imagining Hollywood
106-077 Poetry in the Making
106-103 Sports, Entertainment and the Media
106-508 English Thesis
106-509 English Thesis (MYE)
106-016 Pope and His Enemies
106-017 The Novel & the Invention of the Modern
106-018 Stardom, Media, Culture
106-040 Biography and its Hazards
106-059 Contemporary Historical Fictions
106-071 Cultural Policy and Power
106-072 Reading the Subject: Freud/Lacan/Fiction
106-075 Medieval Representations
106-076 Feminist Readings
106-078 Poetry: The Versatile Imagination
106-079 Romanticism and Modernity
106-081 Writing
106-087 Lesbian and Gay Theory
106-124 Australian Literary Controversies
106-126 Research Principles and Practices
106-127 Memory and Contemporary Culture
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