Qualifications for fourth year (honours)

Entry to fourth-year honours depends upon completion of a major sequence in English with at least credit level results in subjects to the value of twenty-four points at second and third-year level combined, of which sixteen points must be at third-year level. It is also necessary for students to have fulfilled the requirements of a major sequence.

Intending honours students should choose subjects 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;

To complete a major in English students must include among the five subjects which they take in second and third years at least one earlier and one later-period subject (designated a and b in the lists of second and third-year subjects).

Students intending to include Old and/or Middle English courses in their honours year, should note that ENH3370 (Old English literature) is a prerequisite for ENH4780 (Beowulf and Old English poetry), and that ENH3390 (Middle English literature) is a prerequisite for ENH4800 (Middle English literature).

Honours

In fourth year (honours), students take ENH4600 (Minor thesis) and (in first semester) either ENH4620 (Literary theory) twelve points or ENH4640 (The life of the text: genesis, production, reception) twelve points. They also take two optional subjects: the selection of subjects must be approved by the fourth-year coordinator.

Students will be required to attend a short methodology course and a weekly staff-student seminar over part of the year, at which progress reports on minor theses are presented and discussed.

In special circumstances the department may grant an extension of time for submission of the honours thesis or for final coursework up to the last day of the examination period in which the work is due. Applications for extensions beyond this date must be made to the Committee for Undergraduate Studies.

Optional subjects

The following optional subjects will be offered if there are sufficient enrolments in them, and if staff are available to teach them.

First semester

• ENH4010 Analytical and descriptive bibliography
• ENH4050 American autobiography
• ENH4070 Intellectual life in nineteenth-century Melbourne (proposed to be offered next in 1998)
• ENH4270 Feminist poetics
• ENH4310 Theories of discourse: poststructuralism, feminism, and sociolinguistics (proposed to be offered next in 1998)
• ENH4320 Social semiotics of rehearsal and performance
• ENH4620 Literary theory
• ENH4640 The life of the text: genesis, production, reception
• ENH4660 Literature and culture in renaissance England (Not offered in 1997)
• ENH4740 The age of Johnson (not offered in 1997)
• ENH4760 Visions and revisions: reworkings
• ENH4780 Beowulf and Old English poetry
• ENH4800 Middle English literature
• ENH4920 Literature and negativity (proposed to be offered next in 1998)
• ENH4940 Literature into film

• ENH4030 Poetics
• ENH4190 Legal fictions: intersections between law and literature (proposed to be offered next in 1998)
• ENH4210 Writing the child
• ENH4250 Gothic revivals
• ENH4370 Contemporary Australian poetry and fiction
• CLS4380/ENH4540 Literature and society
• ENH4580 Ireland, Swift, England: special author course (proposed to be offered next in 1998
• ENH4700 Drama of the age of Shakespeare
• ENH4820 Twentieth-century Australian drama

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