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1201
ENGLISH 121G
: Reading/Writing/Text2024 Summer School (1240)
Develops University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
1202
ENGLISH 121G
: Reading/Writing/Text2023 Semester Two (1235)
Develops University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
1203
ENGLISH 121G
: Reading/Writing/Text2023 Semester One (1233)
Develops University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
1204
ENGLISH 121G
: Reading/Writing/Text2023 Summer School (1230)
Develops University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
1205
ENGLISH 121G
: Reading/Writing/Text2022 Semester Two (1225)
Develops University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
1206
ENGLISH 121G
: Reading/Writing/Text2022 Semester One (1223)
Develops University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
1207
ENGLISH 121G
: Reading/Writing/Text2022 Summer School (1220)
Develops University-wide skills of reading, writing and analysis. Addresses the needs of students in both English and other disciplines where both writing and reading have an important role in learning. The course fosters personal writing skills and also introduces writing as a subject of study in itself.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
1208
ENGLISH 204
: Pacific Literature in English2021 Semester Two (1215)
An introduction to contemporary Pacific Literature exploring texts from canonical Pacific writers to spoken word performance poets. Texts will be examined in light of recent theories in Indigenous Writing Studies, with a focus on crossings of cultural and creative borders, diaspora and identity.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English, or 15 points at Stage I in English and PACIFIC 100
Outline is not available yet
1209
ENGLISH 252
: Creative Writing: Introduction2021 Semester One (1213)
Develops writing skills in poetry, creative nonfiction, fiction and multimedia. Seminars exploring key aspects of technique are combined with workshops built around writing exercises, revisions and peer review.
Prerequisite: 45 points passed
Restriction: ENGLISH 255, 324
Restriction: ENGLISH 255, 324
Outline is not available yet
1210
ENGLISH 252
: Creative Writing: Introduction2020 Semester One (1203)
Introduces ways of writing and thinking about poetry, short prose fiction, multimedia and drama and screenplay. Lectures on genres and creative composition are combined with smaller tutorials that give students time to practice the techniques and engage the ideas they are learning.
Prerequisite: 45 points passed
Restriction: ENGLISH 255
Restriction: ENGLISH 255
Outline is not available yet
1211
ENGLISH 262
: Special Topic: The Modern Novel2023 Semester Two (1235)
A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 356
Restriction: ENGLISH 356
Outline is not available yet
1212
ENGLISH 305
: Modern Writing and Critical Thinking2021 Semester One (1213)
Reading modern works that overtly blend critical and creative styles, the course examines relations among discourses, criticality, and imagination.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in English, Drama, and/or Writing Studies
Restriction: ENGLISH 223
Restriction: ENGLISH 223
Outline is not available yet
1213
ENGLISH 323
: Contemporary Poetry2021 Semester Two (1215)
An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in English
Outline is not available yet
1214
ENGLISH 323
: Contemporary Poetry2020 Semester Two (1205)
An introduction to the work of a dozen influential poets, this course emphasises new developments. The focus is on the still controversial L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poetry that emerged in the late 1970s and developments concurrent with it. This shift is seen against a background of changes in technology, politics and in popular and intellectual culture.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in English
Outline is not available yet
1215
ENGLISH 343
: Writing Poetry2021 Semester Two (1215)
Students will be guided through poetry and poetics and the writing of poetry. As part of the course requirement, they will submit a portfolio of poems.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in English, Drama, Writing Studies and Programme Coordinator approval
Restriction: ENGLISH 328
Restriction: ENGLISH 328
Outline is not available yet
1216
ENGLISH 351
: Special Topic: Renaissance Poetry2021 Semester One (1213)
A study of poems by the extraordinary English poets writing in the early modern period, giving due attention to their contexts. It covers short, witty poems – erotic, meditative, political -- by Shakespeare, Sidney, Donne, Herbert, Marvell, as well as Milton’s great religious epic, Paradise Lost. Women's writing, for the first time in English, is a distinctive, added pleasure.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in English
Outline is not available yet
1217
ENGLISH 356
: The Modern Novel2023 Semester Two (1235)
A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 220, 262
Restriction: ENGLISH 220, 262
Outline is not available yet
1218
ENGLISH 356
: The Modern Novel2021 Semester Two (1215)
A study of fiction. The prescribed works vary widely in their country of origin, formal elements and themes. Some are recognised as classics, while others show the new directions taken by the writers of the time. The texts are given detailed consideration as well as being placed within social and critical contexts.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 220
Restriction: ENGLISH 220
Outline is not available yet
1219
ENGLISH 707
: Writing World War II2021 Semester One (1213)
Takes the terror wrought by bombing as its theme with particular focus on the literature of the Second World War and the Cold War that followed it. Also addresses contemporary literary reimaginings of the Second World War, which incorporate elements of military, architectural and postcolonial history, and asks what these later versions imply about the war's historicity.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
Outline is not available yet
1220
ENGLISH 718
: Opening the Archive2022 Semester Two (1225)
Develops practical research skills while attending to archives as concept and theory. Skills include scoping and pursuing a significant research project, seeking permissions and presenting findings. The course also reflects critically on the provenance of textual, material, visual and digital collections and their public and scholarly uses in the twenty-first century.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
Outline is not available yet
1221
ENGLISH 718
: Opening the Archive2021 Semester One (1213)
Develops practical research skills while attending to archives as concept and theory. Skills include scoping and pursuing a significant research project, seeking permissions and presenting findings. The course also reflects critically on the provenance of textual, material, visual and digital collections and their public and scholarly uses in the twenty-first century.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
Outline is not available yet
1222
ENGLISH 718
: Opening the Archive2020 Semester Two (1205)
Develops practical research skills while attending to archives as concept and theory. Skills include scoping and pursuing a significant research project, seeking permissions and presenting findings. The course also reflects critically on the provenance of textual, material, visual and digital collections and their public and scholarly uses in the twenty-first century.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
Outline is not available yet
1223
ENGLISH 769
: Representing Imagining2021 Semester Two (1215)
Investigates representation in imaginative writing. Principal texts are from 1928 to the present and from North America, UK, Aotearoa New Zealand, France, and the Caribbean. Topics include genre and expectations; ideologies of originality and copying; discursive mixing; authenticity; wholeness and brokenness; translingualism; the page, the codex and the digitas; and the economy of the imaginative subject.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
Outline is not available yet
1224
GREEK 202
: Ancient Greek Literary Texts 2B2020 Semester Two (1205)
Detailed study of prescribed texts with reference to their language and meaning, and critical appreciation of their literary, historical and/or philosophical qualities.
Prerequisite: GREEK 101
Outline is not available yet
1225
GREEK 204
: Ancient Greek Literary Texts 2D2020 Semester Two (1205)
Detailed study of prescribed texts with reference to their language and meaning, and critical appreciation of their literary, historical and/or philosophical qualities.
Prerequisite: GREEK 101
Outline is not available yet