Undergraduate - Area of study Literary studies

Minor in literary studies

Students completing a minorminor (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-07.html) in literary studies must complete four units (24 points), following one of the three streams outlined below, including:

(a.) two first-year gateway unitsgateway units (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (12 points)

(b.) additional elective units (12 points) from the one of the list of electives (List A: Literatures in English; List B: Creative writing; List C: International Literatures)

Note: Students can take the second-year cornerstone or third-year capstone units from the appropriate major stream as electives.

Major in literary studies: Literatures in English stream

Students completing a majormajor (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-07.html) in literary studies, literatures in English stream must complete eight units (48 points), including:

(a.) two first-year gateway unitsgateway units (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (12 points):

• ATS1903 Introducing literature: Ways of reading
• ATS1904 Reading the city: Literary genres

(b.) at least one second-year cornerstone unitcornerstone unit (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (6 points), chosen from:

• ATS2422 Literature and romanticism
• ATS2485 Reading the past

(c.) at least one third-year capstone unitcapstone unit (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (6 points), chosen from:

• ATS3410 Narrative
• ATS3782 Pleasures of the text

(d.) additional elective units from List A or List B (24 points)

Students intending to undertake an honours year are encouraged to take ATS3782 as their capstone unit.

A minimum of three units (18 points) must be completed at third-year level.

Note: Students can take the remaining cornerstone and capstone units as electives.

Major in literary studies: Creative writing stream

Students completing a majormajor (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-07.html) in literary studies, creative writing stream must complete eight units (48 points), including:

(a.) two first-year gateway unitsgateway units (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (12 points):

• ATS1903 Introducing literature: Ways of reading
• ATS1904 Reading the city: Literary genres

(b.) at least one second-year cornerstone unitcornerstone unit (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (6 points), chosen from:

• ATS2508 Introduction to poetry writing
• ATS2510 Writing in Australia
• ATS2517 Introduction to fiction writing

(c.) at least one third-year capstone unitcapstone unit (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (6 points), chosen from:

• ATS3410 Narrative
• ATS3782 Pleasures of the text

(d.) additional elective units from List A or List B (24 points). A minimum of two units (12 points) must be completed from List B.

Students intending to undertake an honours year are encouraged to take ATS3782 as their capstone unit.

A minimum of three units (18 points) must be completed at third-year level.

Note: Students can take the remaining cornerstone and capstone units as electives.

Major in literary studies: International literatures stream

Students completing a majormajor (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-07.html) in literary studies, international literatures stream must complete eight units (48 points), including:

(a.) two first-year gateway unitsgateway units (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (12 points):

• ATS1276 Tales of origin and transgression
• ATS1903 Introducing literature: Ways of reading

(b.) at least one second-year cornerstone unitcornerstone unit (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (6 points), chosen from:

• ATS2422 Literature and romanticism
• ATS2485 Reading the past

(c.) at least one third-year capstone unitcapstone unit (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/2014handbooks/undergrad/arts-08.html) (6 points), chosen from:

• ATS3410 Narrative
• ATS3421 Literature and modernism
• ATS3782 Pleasures of the text

(d.) additional elective units from List C (24 points)

Students intending to undertake an honours year are encouraged to take ATS3782 as their capstone unit.

A minimum of three units (18 points) must be completed at third-year level.

Note: Students can take the remaining cornerstone and capstone units as electives.

Extended major in literary studies

Students completing an extended major in literary studies (60 points), from any stream, must complete an additional 12 points of third-year level elective units chosen from the appropriate stream of electives.

Elective units

List A: Literatures in English stream electives

• ATS2379/ATS3379 Fairy tale in Italy*
• ATS2413 Science fiction: From monsters to cyborgs
• ATS2427 Earthworks: Literature and environment
• ATS2442 Print Cultures: Books as Media
• ATS2444/ATS3444 Inscribing Italy: Travels and imaginings*
• ATS2492 Shakespeare: Interpretations and transmutations
• ATS2500 The 20th century American novel in a period of change
• ATS2503 Writing women
• ATS2508 Introduction to poetry writing
• ATS2510 Writing in Australia
• ATS2513 Short fiction: Classic and contemporary
• ATS2515 Reading across cultures
• ATS2516 Adaptation to film
• ATS2517 Introduction to fiction writing
• ATS2519 Children's literature: A comparative study
• ATS2914 The dark hero and femme fatal
• ATS2915 The roots of fantasy
• ATS3063 The writing self: Creative non fiction
• ATS3091 Digital literatures
• ATS3443 On the road: Travel and representation
• ATS3486 Renaissance literature: Power and desire
• ATS3495 Victorian to modern English literature
• ATS3496 Fairy-tale traditions
• ATS3487 Satire, sex and sensibility in the eighteenth century
• ATS3502 Post-Modern and contemporary English literature
• ATS3506 Poetry: Text and performance
• ATS3888 Race and class in US literature

List B: Creative writing stream electives

• ATS2164/ATS3164 Italian transformations: Reading and writing self discovery
• ATS3063 The writing self: Creative non fiction
• ATS3091 Digital literatures
• ATS3509 Advanced poetry writing
• ATS3518 Advanced fiction writing

List C: International literatures stream electives

• ATS2405 Critical theory and poststructuralism: Recent European philosophy
• ATS2409 Writing lives: Autobiography and historical fiction
• ATS2412 Foreign bodies: Reading world crime fiction
• ATS2427 Earthworks: Literature and environment
• ATS2428/ATS3428 Modern Jewish literature: Writing across the language
• ATS2898/ATS3898 The Italian city: Historical and literary perspectives*
• ATS3018 Writing the nation
• ATS3040 Cultures of remembrance
• ATS3076 Contemporary French fiction: Rewriting identity
• ATS3077 Whatever happened to truth?: French literature, thought and visual culture
• ATS3083 Translating across cultures
• ATS3407 Reading Freud and Jung
• ATS3955 Writing destruction: Literature of war
• ATS3976 Histoire(s) de rire: The stakes of literary laughter in France

* Taught in Prato, Italy. This unit will require payment of an additional fee that may cover items such as accommodation, entry fees, excursions, coaches, transfers, flights and university administration.