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Unit of study table (Table A)

Major

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

Minor

A minor in English requires 36 credit points from this table including:
(i) 6 credit points of 1000-level core units
(ii) 6 credit points of 1000-level selective units
(iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core units
(iv) 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units
(v) 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units
Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites
C: Corequisites N: Prohibition

1000 level units of study

Core
ENGL1017
The Idea of the Classic
6  
Selective
ENGL1007
Englishes: Language Society Text Time
6  
ENGL1012
The Gothic Imagination
6  
ENGL1013
Global Literatures
6 N ENGL1016
ENGL1014
Creative Writing
6  
ENGL1018
The Medieval Imaginary
6 N ENGL2657
ENGL1019
Jane Austen, Then and Now

6 N ENGL2611
ENGL1022
Contemporary Literature
6  

2000 level units of study

Core
ENGL2674
The Life of Texts
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English
Selective
ENGL2617
Postmodernism
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in English or 6 credit points at 1000 level in English and AMST1001 or (AMST1001 and (HSTY1076 or HSTY1023)) or 18 credit points at 1000 level including ENGL1011
N ENGL2017
ENGL2627
Screening Sexuality
6 P 6 credit points at 1000 level in English or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Film Studies
N ENGL2027
ENGL2650
Reading Poetry
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level including 6 credit points from English
N ENGL2050
ENGL2654
Novel Worlds
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level including 6 credit points in English
ENGL2666
Creative Writing: Theory and Practice
6 P 6 credit points at 1000 level in English
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
ENGL2675
Literary and Textual Theories

6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level including 6 credit points from English
ENGL2676
Climate Fictions
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level including 6 credit points from English

3000 level units of study

Selective
ENGL3607
Modern Irish Literature

6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level from English
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
ENGL3611
Issues in the Semiotics of Language
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
N ENGL3915
ENGL3623
The 18th Century: Scandal and Sociability
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
N ENGL2659
ENGL3633
Introduction to Old English
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level including 6 credit points in English
N ENGL3621 or ENGL3622 or ENGL3631 or ENGL3632
ENGL3635
Old Norse
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
ENGL3642
Medieval Literature: Dreams and Visions

6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level including 6 credit points from English
ENGL3655
The Literary in Theory

6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
ENGL3657
The Brontes
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English
ENGL3695
Medieval Tales of Wonder
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level including 6 credit points in English
ENGL3696
Advanced Creative Writing
6 P ENGL2666 or 12 credit points at 2000 level in English
ENGL3697
Imagining Jerusalem
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English
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
ENGL3703
Australian Literary Ecologies
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in ENGL
N ASLT2620
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
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
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
ENGL3708
Love and Desire in Early Modern England
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
ENGL3709
Global Literature and Times of Perpetual War
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian Literature
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
ENGL3711
Travellers' Tales

6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English
N ENGL2648 or ENGL2048
ENGL3712
Television Fictions

6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English
N ENGL2673
ENGL3713
Shakespeare

6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level including 6 credit points from English
N ENGL2640
ENGL3714
The Victorian Novel
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in English
CLST3614
Middle Welsh

6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Celtic Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in English
N CLST2604
CLST3615
Old Irish
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Celtic Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in English
N CLST2606
JCTC3603
Representing the Holocaust

6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Jewish Civilisation Thought and Culture or International and Comparative Literature Studies or English or European Studies

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.
FASS3999
Interdisciplinary Impact
6 P Completion of at least 90 credit points
FASS3333
Industry and Community Project
6 P 72 credit points
C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major