Head: Professor Brian Nelson
PHILIP
ANDERSON Contemporary French poetry; narrative theory.
JACK BURSTON French linguistics, especially phonological, syntactic and
semantic analysis; computer applications to foreign language teaching.
MIRNA CICIONI Italian socio-linguistics; post World War 2 Italian Jewish
writers, especially Primo Levi; women in twentieth-century Italy.
MARISA CORDELLA Applied Spanish linguistics; pragmatics; socio-linguistics in
Spanish.
PATRICK DUREL Language teaching methodology; applied linguistics
RAFFAELE LAMPUGNANI Dante; contemporary Italian literature and history;
Italo-Australian texts; cinema studies.
AMANDA MACDONALD French cultural studies; popular culture; semiotics.
MONITA MASCITTI-MEUTER Twentieth-century Latin American literature, women's
writing and multimedia applications to foreign language teaching
BRIAN NELSON Nineteenth- and twentieth-century French literature, especially
the late nineteenth-century novel (Zola, Huysmans, etc.).
ANNAMARIA PAGLIARO Nineteenth-century realist literature, especially De
Roberto, Capuana, Verga and Serao.
JORGE PAREDES Nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spanish literature;
postmodernism; feminist literature; modern and contemporary Spanish American
literature and culture.
STEPHAN RIEDEL Women writing; textual theory; Dante; 20th Century literature;
homotextualities.
SALLY STADDON Intercultural business communication; computer applications to
language teaching; teaching languages for special purposes.
Course
code: 0020
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
The degree of PhD is taken by the submission of a thesis not exceeding 100,000
words on a topic approved by the head of the department. Students enrolled in
the first instance for an MA may be permitted to transfer to PhD if their
subject and their progress warrant this. Graduate students enrolled for the PhD
are expected to participate in department research seminars. Candidature is
completed in three years full-time or six years part-time. For further
information, please consult the Doctoral information handbook which is
produced by the Research Training and Support Branch.
Students seeking entry to the PhD should normally have an MA or first or second class division A honours degree in an appropriate discipline or MQual with a research component with a grade of H2A or above.
Course
code: 0017
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
Candidates for the degree of MA in the Department of Romance Languages will
normally proceed to the degree by coursework and research. Suitably qualified
candidates may be granted permission to proceed to the degree by 100 per cent
research (40,000-60,000 words).
Graduate
coordinator: Professor Brian Nelson
Course code: 0017
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
Students successfully completing the MA in French by coursework and research should have gained greater understanding of a special field in French studies and training in advanced research work embodied in the thesis.
The minimum requirement for entry to the program (one year full-time or two years part-time) is an honours degree with a grade of H2A or better in French or its equivalent.
The
program will normally be as follows:
(i) FRM5100 Special French reading course (eight or sixteen points)
(ii) One approved eight-point subject offered by another department or
centre in the Faculty of Arts (this subject will not be taken if FRM5100 is
taken in its sixteen-point form)
(iii) thesis (66 per cent) of 25,000-35,000 words.
Graduate
coordinator: Mr Raffaele Lampugnani
Course code: 0017
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
Students successfully completing the MA in Italian by coursework and thesis should have gained greater understanding of a special field in Italian studies and of a related topic in another discipline and training in advanced research work embodied in the thesis.
The minimum requirement for entry to the program (one year full-time or two years part-time) is an honours degree with a grade of H2A or better in Italian or its equivalent.
The
program will be as follows:
(i) ITM5960.08 Special Italian reading course;
(ii) One approved eight-point subject offered by another department or
centre in the Faculty of Arts;
(iii) thesis (66 per cent) of 25,000-35,000 words.
Graduate
coordinator: Mr Jorge Paredes
Course code: 0017
Course fee: Local students HECS; international students $A12,000 pa
Students successfully completing the MA in Spanish by coursework and research should have gained greater understanding of a special field in Spanish studies and training in advanced research work embodied in the thesis.
The minimum requirement for entry to the MA program (one year full-time or two years part-time) is an honours degree with a grade of H2A or better in Spanish or its equivalent.
The
program will be as follows:
(i) SPM5960.08 Special Spanish reading course;
(ii) One approved eight-point subject offered by another department or
centre in the Faculty of Arts;
(iii) thesis (66 per cent) of 25-35,000 words.