Monash University Handbook 2011 Honours - Area of Study

Students are required to complete 48 points of study comprising 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; contact details available at http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ecps/current/honours.

If students:

• have not completed a second or third-year-level unit with a reasonably strong theoretical component, they are advised to consider taking ATS4274 (Literary theory)
• are undertaking a thesis in creative writing they are advised to consider taking ATS4272 (Writers and the creative process).

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:

• ATS2517/ATS3517 Introduction to fiction writing
• ATS2518/ATS3518 Advanced fiction writing.

Thesis

Students complete one of the following options:

• ATS4762 English minor thesis
• ATS4763 English minor thesis part 1 and ATS4764 English minor thesis part 2

Coursework units

Students complete two of the following units:

• ATS4265 Poetics
• ATS4270 Writing the child
• ATS4271 Gothic revivals
• ATS4272 Writers and the creative process
• ATS4273 Contemporary Australian poetry and fiction
• ATS4274 Literary theory
• ATS4275 Drama of the age of Shakespeare
• ATS4276 Exotic erotic other: World writing in English
• ATS4277 Visions and revisions: Reworkings
• ATS4758 Legal fictions: Bodies, image, discourse
• ATS4760 Supervised reading subject
• ATS4761 Ireland, swift, England: Special author course
• ATS4765 Feminist poetics
• a maximum of 12 points at fourth-year level from another discipline and/or institution with the permission of the English honours coordinator

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 ATS2517/ATS3517 Introduction to Fiction Writing and ATS2518/ATS3518 Advanced Fiction Writing.

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• 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