Honours Overview

Description

Honours in English Literary Studies is designed to increase understanding of literature and culture through sustained and close attention to particular texts (including film), key topics and major critical and theoretical issues. In particular, you will expand and deepen your specialist knowledge gained at undergraduate level, and develop advanced-level research skills, critical skills, and knowledge of theory and praxis. You can focus your learning on areas of personal interest and inquiry through your choice of units (allowing concentration on areas as diverse as film or creative writing, theatre or poetry, Australian literature or postmodernism, or representations of Asia) and are encouraged to devise your own topic for the dissertation. The skills and attributes gained by honours students in English Literary Studies are especially useful for those intending to progress to language-based professions such as law, education, psychology, journalism and diplomacy, as well as to careers in the arts, broadcasting, publishing, cultural management, advertising and public relations, the civil service, teaching and public advocacy groups.

Outcomes

Students are able to (1) develop advanced-level research skills that are methodologically informed; (2) articulate an independent critical position clearly in written and oral forms; (3) use highly-developed skills of analysis and critical reasoning in order to advance and defend a proposed interpretation or argument; (4) have an advanced understanding of the role played by discourses on race, class and gender in the production and reception of fictional texts; and (5) be aware of the importance of informing and challenging one's independent analyses and ideas with discriminating reading in imaginative and theoretical literature.

Entry requirements

The equivalent of a UWA weighted average mark of at least 70 per cent in the Level 3 units of the English Literary Studies major.

Students must meet with their Discipline's Honours Coordinator to discuss their programme and research supervision prior to enrolment.

Intake periods

Beginning of year and mid-year

Courses

Honours in English and Literary Studies can be taken as a specialisation in the following degrees:

No study plans found for this course. See study plans for more information.

Units

Key to availability of units:
S1
Semester 1
S2
Semester 2
N/A
not available in 2025 – may be available in 2026 or 2027
Take all units (30 points):
AvailabilityUnit codeUnit nameUnit requirements
S1 ENGL4102 Methodologies
Prerequisites
Enrolment in HON-EGLST English and Literary Studies
or
Enrolment in
HON-GNDST Gender Studies
and Successful completion of
any two level 2
or level 3 ENGL units
S1, S2 HUMA4140 Humanities Dissertation 1
Prerequisites
enrolment in
a School of Humanities honours program
S1, S2 HUMA4141 Humanities Dissertation 2
Prerequisites
HUMA4140 Humanities Dissertation 1
Take unit(s) to the value of 18 points:
AvailabilityUnit codeUnit nameUnit requirements
S1 ENGL4103 Studies in Creative Writing
Prerequisites
Enrolment in HON-EGLST English and Literary Studies
or
Enrolment in
12520 Master of Translation Studies and permission from the unit coordinator
S2 ENGL4104 Cinema and Cultural Studies
Prerequisites
sufficient units to ensure admission to Honours in English and Cultural Studies
N/A ENGL4105 Case Studies in Modern Literature
Prerequisites
sufficient units to ensure admission to Honours in English and Cultural Studies
S2 ENGL4107 Australian Literary Studies
Prerequisites
Enrolment in
HON-EGLST English and Literary Studies
or Enrolment in
12520 Master of Translation Studies
S1 ENGL4108 Special Author Studies
Prerequisites
sufficient units to ensure admission to Honours in English and Cultural Studies