University of Sydney Handbooks - 2021 Archive

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English

Unit outlines will be available through Find a unit outline two weeks before the first day of teaching for 1000-level and 5000-level units, or one week before the first day of teaching for all other units.
 

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 selective units
(ii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core units
(iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units
(iv) 18 credit points of 3000-level selective units
(v) 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 selective units
(ii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core units
(iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units
(iv) 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units

1000-level units of study

Selective
ENGL1002
Narratives of Romance and Adventure

This unit of study is not available in 2021

6      Semester 1
ENGL1007
Englishes: Language Society Text Time
6      Semester 1
ENGL1012
The Gothic Imagination

This unit of study is not available in 2021

6      Semester 2
ENGL1013
Global Literatures in English
6      Semester 1
ENGL1014
Creative Writing
6      Semester 2
ENGL1016
Imagining the Black Atlantic

This unit of study is not available in 2021

6      Semester 1
ENGL1017
The Idea of the Classic
6      Semester 2
ENGL1018
The Medieval Imaginary

This unit of study is not available in 2021

6    N ENGL2657
Semester 1
ENGL1019
Jane Austen, Then and Now
6    N ENGL2611
Semester 1
ENGL1026
Constructing the Fictive Self

This unit of study is not available in 2021

6      Semester 1

2000-level units of study

Core
ENGL2674
The Life of Texts
6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the English major
Semester 2
Selective
ENGL2627
Screening Sexuality

This unit of study is not available in 2021

6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Film Studies
N ENGL2027
Semester 2
ENGL2650
Reading Poetry

This unit of study is not available in 2021

6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English
N ENGL2050
Semester 1
ENGL2654
Novel Worlds

This unit of study is not available in 2021

6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English
Semester 2
ENGL2666
Creative Writing:Theory and Practice
6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English
Semester 1
ENGL2672
Postcolonial Modernisms/Modernities

This unit of study is not available in 2021

6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Australian Literature or 12 credit points at 1000 level in English Studies
Semester 1
ENGL2675
Literary and textual theories
6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the English major
Semester 2
ENGL2676
Climate Fiction
6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the English major
Semester 1

3000 level units of study

Selective
ENGL3607
Modern Irish Literature
6    P 18 Senior credit points from English or Australian Literature
Semester 2
ENGL3608
Transpacific American Literature
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
N ENGL2664
Semester 1
ENGL3611
Issues in the Semiotics of Language

This unit of study is not available in 2021

6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
N ENGL3915
Semester 1
ENGL3623
The 18th Century: Scandal and Sociability

This unit of study is not Data Audit Committee Approved

6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
N ENGL2659
Semester 1
ENGL3633
Introduction to Old English
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Celtic Studies
N ENGL3621 or ENGL3622 or ENGL3631 or ENGL3632
Semester 2
ENGL3635
Old Norse

This unit of study is not available in 2021

6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Linguistics or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Celtic Studies
N ENGL3631 or ENGL3632 or ENGL3622 or ENGL3621
Semester 1
ENGL3642
Medieval Literature: Dreams and Visions
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Celtic Studies
Semester 1
ENGL3655
The Literary in Theory

This unit of study is not available in 2021

6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
Semester 1
ENGL3657
The Brontes

This unit of study is not available in 2021

6    P 18 credit points at 2000-level from English or Australian Literature
Semester 2
ENGL3695
Medieval Tales of Wonder

This unit of study is not available in 2021

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 or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
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
ENGL3705
Writing Country: Indigenous Ecopoetics
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Indigenous Studies
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

This unit of study is not available in 2021

6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in English Studies
Semester 1
ENGL3708
Love and Desire in Early Modern England

This unit of study is not available in 2021

6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
Semester 2
ENGL3709
Global Literature and Times of Perpetual War

This unit of study is not available in 2021

6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
Semester 2
ENGL3710
Utopias and Dystopias: Literature; Films; TV
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
Semester 1
ENGL3711
Travellers' Tales
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the English major
N ENGL2648 or ENGL2048
Semester 1
ENGL3712
Television Fictions
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the English major
N ENGL2673
Semester 2
ENGL3713
Shakespeare
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the English major
N ENGL2640
Semester 2
JCTC3603
Representing the Holocaust
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the Jewish Civilisation Thought and Culture major International and Comparative Literature Studies major English Studies major or European Studies major
Semester 2

Interdisciplinary project unit of study

If you are completing two majors and both of your majors are from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your first major, and the Industry and Community Project unit of study for your second major.
If you are completing two majors but only one of your majors is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for that major.
If you are completing one major only and that major is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your major.
ENGL3999
Interdisciplinary Impact
6    P Completion of at least 90 credit points
N Interdisciplinary Impact in another major

Note: Department permission required for enrolment in the following sessions:Intensive December

Intensive December
Semester 1
Semester 2
ENGL3998
Industry and Community Project
6    P 72 credit points
C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major.
Intensive February
Intensive July
Semester 1
Semester 2