English

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.

Description

Students are required to complete 48 points of study comprising of a thesis and two coursework units. Students are also required to attend a short methodology course.

The 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

Thesis

Students complete one of the following options:

• ENH4600 Minor thesis OR
• ENH4600(A) Minor thesis Part 1 AND
• ENH4600(B) Minor thesis Part 2
  

Coursework Units

Students complete two of the following units:

• ENH4210 Writing the child
• ENH4500 Supervised reading subject
• 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 coordinator.

Not offered in 2010

• CLS4030 Poetics
• ENH4195 Legal fictions: Bodies, image, discourse
• ENH4250 Gothic revivals
• ENH4265 Writers and the creative process
• ENH4270 Feminist poetics
• ENH4340 Australian autobiography
• ENH4370 Contemporary Australian poetry and fiction
• ENH4580 Ireland, swift, England: Special author course

Relevant Courses

• 0003 Honours degree of Bachelor of Arts
• 0204 Honours degree of Bachelor of Letters
• 0082 The honours degree of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws