Postgraduate

ENGL421
Modern Poetry
Description
This course takes a broad view of modern poetry. We begin with a selection of English and American poets identified with literary modernism, before widening our reading to encompass poets of other places and more recent eras who have responded in a variety of ways to modernist forms, techniques and preoccupations.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2025
Points
30 points
Prerequisites
Subject to approval of the Head of Department.
ENGL442
Directed Reading and Writing
Description
English 442 provides an opportunity for BA(Honours) and first-year MA students to study areas of interest not otherwise available as 400-level courses. Students work independently under the direction of an academic staff member. They are required to read prescribed primary and secondary materials, to undertake assigned research tasks, and to produce two or more essays or other written exercises (with a total length of about 10,000 words). Interested students must contact the Supervisor of Honours Students well in advance of the start of semester.
Occurrences
Semester One 2025
Semester Two 2025
Points
30 points
Prerequisites
Subject to approval of the Head of Department.
ENGL445
The Essay Film
Description
This course studies the essay film, a hybrid genre which troubles conventional distinctions between documentary and fiction, as the model for a new mode of critical practice.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2025
Points
30 points
Prerequisites
Subject to approval of the Head of Department.
ENGL480
Research Essay
Occurrences
Semester One 2025
Semester Two 2025
Points
30 points
Prerequisites
Subject to approval of the Head of Department.
ENGL650
MA Dissertation
Description
MA Dissertation
Occurrences
Approved Start 2025
Semester One 2025
Semester Two 2025
Points
60 points
Prerequisites
Subject to the approval of the Head of Department.
ENGL690
MA Thesis
Occurrences
Approved Start 2025
Points
120 points
Prerequisites
Subject to approval of the Head of Department.

Not Offered Courses in 2025

Postgraduate

ENGL410
Picture (Im)Perfect: Utopia and Dystopia in Literature
Description
Utopia is a term coined by Sir Thomas More in the sixteenth century, a play on Greek for both "no place" and a "good place", setting up an imaginative projection of an idealised socio-political "place". Alongside the domain of the ideal, there is an equally compelling tradition of projecting dystopian visions: the "dark mirror" of the writers’ concerns. The focus of the course is both on texts and theories surrounding these trends in envisioning the desires and anxieties of particular cultures and individuals, examining treatises, fantasies, essays and other speculative fiction. Plotting an historical course through this domain, we will also be questioning the shifting ideals represented, and the kinds of social and political positioning engendered in the shifts. While students will expected to read a number of key texts in the thematic "genres" of utopian or dystopian subjects, and relevant theory, there will also be sufficient opportunity to view other examples and map out the differences and similarities in representation that different choices of texts negotiate.
Occurrences
ENGL410-25S1 (C)
Semester One 2025 - Not offered
For further information see ENGL410 course details
Points
30 points
Prerequisites
Subject to approval of the Head of Department.