Major Overview

Description

Studying English Literary Studies enriches students' understanding of major literary, cinematic and theatrical forms from English-speaking cultures across the globe by allowing students to explore many areas of reading, writing and performance. This major includes units in the literary history of Britain, America, Australia and postcolonial societies; creative writing and theatre; popular culture and film; and critical theory. The emphasis is on developing an understanding of how we communicate and of diverse forms of representation across time, culture and media.

Outcomes

Students are able to:

  1. interpret texts produced in varied cultural and historical contexts with sensitivity to the generic dimensions, intertextual significance, and formal qualities of those texts
  2. evaluate and make use of critical scholarship in the discipline of English Literary Studies
  3. clearly express ideas, examples and arguments in appropriate written and oral forms
  4. deploy skills of critical analysis and independent critical reasoning
  5. work effectively as a member of a collaborative group.
Broadening guidelines

All students studying towards a Bachelor's Degree at UWA are required to Broaden their studies by completing a minimum of four units (24 points) of study outside their degree specific major. Broadening is your opportunity to explore other areas of interest, investigate new disciplines and knowledge paradigms and to shape your degree to suit your own aspirations and interests. Many of you will be able to undertake more than this minimum amount of broadening study and we encourage you to do so if this suits your aspirations. Over the next few months you will find here some broadening suggestions related to your degree-specific major. While we know that many students value guidance of this sort, these are only suggestions and students should not lose sight of the opportunity to explore that is afforded by your Broadening Choices. Advice can also be sought from your Allocated Student Advising Office.

Courses

English and Literary Studies can be taken as a degree-specific major in the following degree courses:

Example Study Plan

See study plans for more information.

Units

Key to availability of units:
S1
Semester 1
S2
Semester 2

Level 1

Degree-specific major units

Take unit(s) to the value of 12 points:

Availability Unit code Unit name unit requirements
S2 ENGL1000 Global Literatures None
S1 ENGL1002 Literary Classics None
S1 ENGL1401 Narrative in the Digital Age None
S2 ENGL1501 Reading Creatively/Writing Creatively None
S2 ENGL1902 Reading Bodies None

Level 2

Degree-specific major units

Take unit(s) to the value of 12 points:

Availability Unit code Unit name unit requirements
S2 ENGL2200 Jane Austen and her Legacy
Prerequisites
any Level 1 English unit
S1 ENGL2208 Literary Rebels
Prerequisites
Successful completion of
ENGL1000 Global Literatures
or ENGL1002 Literary Classics
or ENGL1401 Narrative in the Digital Age
or ENGL1902 Reading Bodies
or ENGL1501 Reading Creatively/Writing Creatively
S2 ENGL2210 Cinema Classics None
S2 ENGL2220 In Other Worlds: Speculative Fiction, Fantasy, and Sci Fi None
S1 ENGL2401 Netflicks: Cinema and Long-form Television None
S1 ENGL2501 Creative Writing: Theory and Practice
Prerequisites
24 points of study

Level 3

Degree-specific major units

Take unit(s) to the value of 24 points:

Availability Unit code Unit name unit requirements
S2 ENGL3001 Poetry and Poetics
Prerequisites
any Level 2 ENGL unit
S2 ENGL3200 Writing/Environment
Prerequisites
any level 1
or level 2 ENGL unit
or HIST1901 Environmental History
S2 ENGL3300 Australian Literature and Cinema
Prerequisites
any Level 2 ENGL unit
S1 ENGL3602 Shakespeare: Page, Stage, Screen
Prerequisites
any Level 2 ENGL unit
or LAWS2018 Law Literature
S1 ENGL3604 Victorian Dreams and the Technological World
Prerequisites
any Level 2 ENGL unit
S1 ENGL3801 Advanced Literary Theory
Prerequisites
Any Level 2 ENGL unit