English: Arts Honours Area of Study
Campus availability: Clayton
The honours program in English is administered by the School of English, Communications, and Performance Studies .
English honours can be completed within the honours degree of the Bachelor of Arts or the honours degree of the Bachelor of Letters.
How to apply
Intending honours students are encouraged to consult as early as possible with the fourth-year honours coordinator in planning their major sequence; they should choose units providing them with:
- an understanding of the nature and construction of the discipline, including its historical and contemporary forms
- a familiarity with a range of literary genres across a broad historical and cultural spectrum
- an understanding of contemporary and historical modes of literary and critical theory.
In particular, intending honours students who wish to undertake a creative writing thesis are strongly encouraged to enrol in: ENH2980/ENH3980 Introduction to Fiction Writing and ENH2981/ENH3981 Advanced Fiction Writing.
Program
Students complete 48 points at fourth-year level including a thesis and two coursework units chosen from the electives listed. Students are also required to attend a short methodology course.
Coursework units and the thesis topic are chosen in consultation with the English Honours Coordinator .
If you have not completed a second or third year level unit with a reasonably strong theoretical component, you are advised to consider taking ENH4620 Literary Theory. If you are undertaking a thesis in Creative Writing you are advised to consider taking ENH4265 Writers and the Creative Process.
Units that can be counted towards discipline
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Core Units
- ENH4600 Minor Thesis OR
- ENH4600(A) Minor Thesis Part 1 AND
- ENH4600(B) Minor Thesis Part 2
Elective units
- CLS4030 Poetics
- ENH4195 Legal Fictions: Bodies, Image, Discourse
- ENH4210 Writing the Child
- ENH4250 Gothic Revivals
- ENH4265 Writers and the Creative Process
- ENH4270 Feminist Poetics
- ENH4340 Australian Autobiography
- ENH4370 Contemporary Australian Poetry and Fiction
- ENH4500 Supervised Reading Subject
- ENH4580 Ireland, Swift, England: Special Author Course
- ENH4620 Literary Theory
- ENH4700 Drama of the Age of Shakespeare
- ENH4750 Exotic Erotic Other: World Writing in English
- ENH4760 Visions and Revisions: Reworkings
- A maximum of 12 points at fourth-year level from another discipline and/or institution with the permission of the English Honours Coodinator