Monash University Arts undergraduate handbook 1995

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Comparative literature

A first-year sequence consists of CLS1010 followed by CLS1020.

Minor sequence

A minor sequence in comparative literature consists of either (a) CLS1010 and CLS1020 and two second-year level subjects in comparative literature or critical theory or (b) two second-year level subjects and third-year level subjects totalling at least twelve points in comparative literature or critical theory.

Major sequence

A major sequence in comparative literature consists of (i) CLS1010 and CLS1020 or an appropriate first-year sequence in English or French or German, followed by (ii) a minimum of two second-year level subjects in comparative literature or critical theory, followed by (iii) a minimum of two third-year level eight point subjects in comparative literature or critical theory, and (iv) a minimum of an additional eight points at second or third-year level in comparative literature or critical theory.

Honours

Coordinator: Andrew Milner

The honours sequence consists of CLS4080, CLS4000 and any further combination of fourth-year level subjects in comparative literature or critical theory with a combined value of twenty-four points.

Combined honours

Combined honours may be taken in comparative literature and another discipline provided that all honours requirements have been met in both disciplines and subject to the approval of the heads of both departments/centres. Mid-year entry is not offered by this centre.

Comparative literature subjects

First-year level

* CLS1010 Text and context I

* CLS1020 Text and context II

* CLS1030 Rome and its literature: creating the canon

Second-year level

* CLS2090 Comparative literary criticism

* CLS2150 Belief and perception

* CLS2160 Chinese literature and modernity

* CLS2230 Greek-Australian writing

* CLS2350 The offensive body: the representation of women in Zola and Hardy

* CLS2370 Literature and society

* CLS2530 Modernism in European literature

* CLS2550 Romanticism and revolution

* CLS2570 Writing women

* CLS2750 Contemporary women's fiction and theory

* CLS2790 Postmodernism and the novel

* CLS2830 Structuralism and semiotics: Bakhtin, Lotman

Third-year level

* CLS3090 Comparative literary criticism

* CLS3150 Belief and perception

* CLS3160 Chinese literature and modernity

* CLS3220 Literature and society in Indonesia

* CLS3230 Greek-Australian writing

* CLS3310 Gender and its representation in Indonesian societies

* CLS3320 Paris, Berlin, Vienna - the city and modernity 1870-1918

* CLS3350 The offensive body: the representation of women in Zola and Hardy

* CLS3360 Indonesian theatrical traditions

* CLS3370 Literature and society

* CLS3420 Tolstoy and Dostoevsky: discourse of experience and alterity

* CLS3430 European cultural history: the Spanish Civil War

* CLS3530 Modernism in European literature

* CLS3550 Romanticism and revolution

* CLS3570 Writing women

* CLS3750 Contemporary women's fiction and theory

* CLS3780 Women's writing in Latin America today

* CLS3790 Postmodernism and the novel

* CLS3810 Comparative drama of the twentieth century

* CLS3830 Structuralism and semiotics: Bakhtin, Lotman

* CLS3910 The novel in Eastern Europe

Fourth-year level

* CLS4000 Literary theory

* CLS4080 Minor thesis

* CLS4220 The utopian tradition in European literature



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