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926

ENGLISH 121

: Reading/Writing/Text
2020 Semester One (1203)
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.
Subject: English
No pre-requisites or restrictions
927

ENGLISH 121

: Reading/Writing/Text
2020 Summer School (1200)
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.
Subject: English
No pre-requisites or restrictions
928

ENGLISH 121G

: Reading/Writing/Text
2021 Semester Two (1215)
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.
Subject: English
No pre-requisites or restrictions
929

ENGLISH 121G

: Reading/Writing/Text
2021 Semester One (1213)
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.
Subject: English
No pre-requisites or restrictions
930

ENGLISH 121G

: Reading/Writing/Text
2021 Summer School (1210)
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.
Subject: English
No pre-requisites or restrictions
931

ENGLISH 121G

: Reading/Writing/Text
2020 Semester Two (1205)
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.
Subject: English
No pre-requisites or restrictions
932

ENGLISH 121G

: Reading/Writing/Text
2020 Semester One (1203)
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.
Subject: English
No pre-requisites or restrictions
933

ENGLISH 121G

: Reading/Writing/Text
2020 Summer School (1200)
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.
Subject: English
No pre-requisites or restrictions
934

ENGLISH 204

: Pacific Literature in English
2022 Semester Two (1225)
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.
Subject: English
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English, or 15 points at Stage I in English and PACIFIC 100
935

ENGLISH 204

: Pacific Literature in English
2020 Semester Two (1205)
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.
Subject: English
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English, or 15 points at Stage I in English and PACIFIC 100
936

ENGLISH 207

: Creating Stories
2024 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.
Subject: English
Prerequisite: 60 points passed
Restriction: ENGLISH 111
937

ENGLISH 213

: Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy
2025 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.
Subject: English
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in Drama or English
Restriction: ENGLISH 353
938

ENGLISH 213

: Age of Shakespeare: Tragedy
2022 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.
Subject: English
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English or Drama, or approval of Academic Head or nominee
Restriction: ENGLISH 353
939

ENGLISH 214

: Early Texts: Modern Inventions
2024 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.
Subject: English
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 210, 330
940

ENGLISH 214

: Early Texts: Modern Inventions
2023 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.
Subject: English
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 210, 330
941

ENGLISH 214

: Early Texts: Modern Inventions
2022 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.
Subject: English
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 210, 330
942

ENGLISH 214

: Early Texts: Modern Inventions
2021 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.
Subject: English
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 210
943

ENGLISH 214

: Early Texts: Modern Inventions
2020 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.
Subject: English
Prerequisite: 15 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 210
944

ENGLISH 216

: Modernist Transformations
2024 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.
Subject: English
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 206, 222, 322
945

ENGLISH 216

: Modernist Transformations
2022 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.
Subject: English
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 206, 222, 322
946

ENGLISH 216

: Modernist Transformations
2021 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.
Subject: English
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 206, 222
947

ENGLISH 217

: Postcolonial Memory: Ireland
2021 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.
Subject: English
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 266, 316, 361
948

ENGLISH 217

: Postcolonial Memory: Ireland
2020 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.
Subject: English
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 266, 316, 361
949

ENGLISH 219

: Nineteenth Century Literature
2025 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.
Subject: English
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 104, 360
950

ENGLISH 219

: Nineteenth Century Literature
2024 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.
Subject: English
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English
Restriction: ENGLISH 104, 360