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English - ENGLA24054
Stream Summary
Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science
School: School of the Arts and Media
Contact: sam@unsw.edu.au
Program: 4054 - Arts / Education (Secondary)
Award(s):
Bachelor of Arts (Minor)
Information valid for students commencing 2013.
Students who commenced prior to 2013 should go to the Handbook's Previous Editions
Stream Outline
The aims of the BA minor stream in English are:
1. to provide students with an understanding and appreciation of the importance of literature and literary culture to the history of ideas, to national and transnational cultural identities, to the ethical formation of individuals and communities, to cultural politics, to artistic movements, and to public life.
2. to develop skills such as the ability to conduct close textual analyses, and to write with clarity, precision and persuasiveness.
3. to foster the capacity for independent research, for critical analysis of all forms of writing and media representation
4. to foster a capacity for problem solving and argumentation, for sophisticated written and oral communication and for imaginative experimentation with language.
5. To enable students to gain an understanding of national and transnational literary heritages.
Stream Structure
- ARTS2031 Australian Literature (6 UOC)
- ARTS2032 Creative Writing (6 UOC)
- ARTS2033 Poetry and Poetics (6 UOC)
- ARTS2034 Shakespearean Drama (6 UOC)
- ARTS2035 American Literature (6 UOC)
- ARTS2036 Modernism (6 UOC)
- ARTS2037 Women's Writing (6 UOC)
- ARTS2038 The Novel (6 UOC)
- ARTS2039 Modern Irish Literature (6 UOC)
- ARTS3011 Writing Bodies (6 UOC)
- ARTS3051 Fiction Writing (6 UOC)