Search Course Outline
Showing 25 course outlines from 1326 matches
326
ENGLISH 207
: Creating Stories2024 Semester Two (1245)
Explores narrative theory and analysis through major stories from the literature and art of the last six centuries, from Shakespeare’s sources to now; from at least four continents; and including short story, drama, 'classic' and modern novels, verse, children’s picture story, narrative painting, comics, film and music video. Investigates universal, human, local, individual, work and intra-work levels of analysis.
Prerequisite: 60 points passed
Restriction: ENGLISH 111
Restriction: ENGLISH 111
327
ENGLISH 213
: Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy2025 Semester One (1253)
An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in Drama or English
Restriction: ENGLISH 353
Restriction: ENGLISH 353
328
ENGLISH 213
: Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy2022 Semester Two (1225)
An introduction to the golden age of English theatre, involving detailed study of a selection of tragedies by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The theatrical emphasis of the course is intended to help students respond to the plays as theatrical artefacts and not merely as literary texts.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English or Drama, or approval of Academic Head or nominee
Restriction: ENGLISH 353
Restriction: ENGLISH 353
329
ENGLISH 214
: Early Texts: Modern Inventions2024 Semester One (1243)
A study of key works and contexts of selected medieval and early modern writers, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Behn. Offers a compact history of literary engagements with important social issues that arose in a period notable for revolution and reform; also develops knowledge of literary forms and trends that are historically important, but, in this period, relatively new.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 210, 330
Restriction: ENGLISH 210, 330
330
ENGLISH 214
: Early Texts: Modern Inventions2023 Semester One (1233)
A study of key works and contexts of selected medieval and early modern writers, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Behn. Offers a compact history of literary engagements with important social issues that arose in a period notable for revolution and reform; also develops knowledge of literary forms and trends that are historically important, but, in this period, relatively new.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 210, 330
Restriction: ENGLISH 210, 330
331
ENGLISH 214
: Early Texts: Modern Inventions2022 Semester One (1223)
A study of key works and contexts of selected medieval and early modern writers, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Behn. Offers a compact history of literary engagements with important social issues that arose in a period notable for revolution and reform; also develops knowledge of literary forms and trends that are historically important, but, in this period, relatively new.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 210, 330
Restriction: ENGLISH 210, 330
332
ENGLISH 214
: Early Texts: Modern Inventions2021 Semester Two (1215)
A study of key works and contexts of selected medieval and early modern writers, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Behn. Offers a compact history of literary engagements with important social issues that arose in a period notable for revolution and reform; also develops knowledge of literary forms and trends that are historically important, but, in this period, relatively new.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 210
Restriction: ENGLISH 210
333
ENGLISH 214
: Early Texts: Modern Inventions2020 Semester Two (1205)
A study of key works and contexts of selected medieval and early modern writers, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, and Behn. Offers a compact history of literary engagements with important social issues that arose in a period notable for revolution and reform; also develops knowledge of literary forms and trends that are historically important, but, in this period, relatively new.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 210
Restriction: ENGLISH 210
334
ENGLISH 216
: Modernist Transformations2024 Semester Two (1245)
Taking transformation as its theme, the course focuses on a selection of influential Modernist works that map out some of the possibilities for the avant-garde in the early twentieth century. Students will expand their knowledge of modernism as a multimedia, multicultural phenomenon and exert their imaginations and research skills as they consider its relevance to contemporary cultural production.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 206, 222, 322
Restriction: ENGLISH 206, 222, 322
335
ENGLISH 216
: Modernist Transformations2022 Semester One (1223)
Taking transformation as its theme, the course focuses on a selection of influential Modernist works that map out some of the possibilities for the avant-garde in the early 20th century. Students will expand their knowledge of modernism as a multimedia, multicultural phenomenon and exert their imaginations and research skills as they consider its relevance to contemporary cultural production.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 206, 222, 322
Restriction: ENGLISH 206, 222, 322
336
ENGLISH 216
: Modernist Transformations2021 Semester One (1213)
Modernist writers wanted to ‘Make it new, make it strange, make it dance’. This course focuses on Modernist texts from the first half of the twentieth century, tracing in the literature, art and other cultural productions of that period the development of ideas and techniques still relevant to how we write, think and ‘make it new’ today.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 206, 222
Restriction: ENGLISH 206, 222
337
ENGLISH 217
: Postcolonial Memory: Ireland2021 Semester One (1213)
Explores globally significant issues of cultural memory, identity and postcolonial inheritance through the lens of Irish literature and cultural experience. Debates about memory and postcoloniality guide our navigation of twentieth and twenty-first century Irish novels, plays, poetry and short stories. Conversely, our literary navigations interrogate postcolonial representations of identity across changing cultural contexts.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 266, 316, 361
Restriction: ENGLISH 266, 316, 361
338
ENGLISH 217
: Postcolonial Memory: Ireland2020 Semester One (1203)
Explores globally significant issues of cultural memory, identity and postcolonial inheritance through the lens of Irish literature and cultural experience. Debates about memory and postcoloniality guide our navigation of twentieth and twenty-first century Irish novels, plays, poetry and short stories. Conversely, our literary navigations interrogate postcolonial representations of identity across changing cultural contexts.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 266, 316, 361
Restriction: ENGLISH 266, 316, 361
339
ENGLISH 219
: Nineteenth Century Literature2025 Semester Two (1255)
Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century – poetry, fiction and drama – as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 104, 360
Restriction: ENGLISH 104, 360
340
ENGLISH 219
: Nineteenth Century Literature2024 Semester One (1243)
Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century – poetry, fiction and drama – as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 104, 360
Restriction: ENGLISH 104, 360
341
ENGLISH 219
: Nineteenth Century Literature2021 Semester Two (1215)
Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century – poetry, fiction and drama – as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 104
Restriction: ENGLISH 104
342
ENGLISH 219
: Nineteenth Century Literature2020 Semester Two (1205)
Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century – poetry, fiction and drama – as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 104
Restriction: ENGLISH 104
343
ENGLISH 221
: New Zealand Literature2025 Semester Two (1255)
Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 355
Restriction: ENGLISH 355
344
ENGLISH 221
: New Zealand Literature2024 Semester One (1243)
Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 355
Restriction: ENGLISH 355
345
ENGLISH 221
: New Zealand Literature2023 Semester One (1233)
Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 355
Restriction: ENGLISH 355
346
ENGLISH 221
: New Zealand Literature2022 Semester One (1223)
Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 355
Restriction: ENGLISH 355
347
ENGLISH 221
: New Zealand Literature2021 Semester Two (1215)
Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 355
Restriction: ENGLISH 355
348
ENGLISH 221
: New Zealand Literature2020 Semester One (1203)
Offers an historical survey of major writers and key issues in New Zealand literature. Students will not only read some of the best writing our country has to offer but will develop, through the literature studied, a richly detailed overview of New Zealand experience from the period of first contact until now.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 355
Restriction: ENGLISH 355
349
ENGLISH 223
: Modern Writing and Critical Thinking2025 Semester One (1253)
Explores theories and practices of writing and criticality in academic, civic, and artistic contexts. We consider some of the scripts that organise literate social practices and how to perceive and extrapolate their principles. We explore how we are affected by, how we navigate, and how we transform our immersive world of signs.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 305
Restriction: ENGLISH 305
350
ENGLISH 223
: Modern Writing and Critical Thinking2024 Semester One (1243)
Explores theories and practices of writing and criticality in academic, civic, and artistic contexts. We consider some of the scripts that organise literate social practices and how to perceive and extrapolate their principles. We explore how we are affected by, how we navigate, and how we transform our immersive world of signs.
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 305
Restriction: ENGLISH 305