ObjectivesStudents who complete the postgraduate diploma should:
* experience recent developments in literary and/or cultural studies;
* develop an understanding of methodological and theoretical approaches at an advanced level in the discipline;
* gain expertise equivalent to an honours degree in a particular specialist area of study.
Academic titlePostgraduate Diploma in Arts (English)
Course description * Thesis subject (37.5 points)
* One compulsory subject (12.5 points)
* Four elective subjects (50 points)
A total of 100 points - subjects are 12.5 points each, unless indicated otherwise.
Thesis subject
Subject Semester Credit Points
106-509 English Thesis
Topics selected in consultation with the coordinator. Semester 1, Semester 2 37.50
Compulsory subject
Subject Semester Credit Points
106-401 Research Principles and Practices
This subject is designed to equip students with the comprehensive skills necessary for the successful construction and completion of intellectually sophisticated and commercially competitive research projects. This subject constitutes a detailed but ... Semester 1, Semester 2 12.50
Elective subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
106-400 Theatres of Migration and Exile
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-403 Reading the Subject: Freud/Fiction/Lacan
The subject provides an introduction to the basic tenets of Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and some of the challenges and criticisms they have attracted. It examines the influences of psychoanalysis on representations of subjectivity and... Semester 2 12.50
106-405 Anthologies of Anglo-Saxon Poetry
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-409 Celebrity Cultures
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-414 Medieval Representations
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-416 Theatre, Politics, Ideology
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-417 The Libertine Moment
This subject examines libertinism as a social and literary formation at the court of Charles II (1660-1685) through the exemplary figure of the Earl of Rochester. An influential courtier and nobleman as well as a witty and obscene poet, Rochester&apo... Semester 2 12.50
106-418 The Bounty Saga and British Romanticism
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-422 Poetry: The Versatile Imagination
This subject explores originality and diversity in poetry of several centuries and different countries, with some attention to context and reception. Students who complete this subject should be acquainted with a significant range of poems from the l... Semester 1 12.50
106-423 Romanticism and Modernity
This subject offers an introduction to romanticism as a paradigmatic discourse of modernity, with particular emphasis on questions of gender, aesthetics and subjectivity. It also examines aspects of the role played by the ideology and discourse of ro... Semester 2 12.50
106-430 Subcultural Studies
This subject studies texts and events relating to various subcultural formations, including gangs, music subcultures, drug cultures, neo-pagans, sexed subcultures, bohemias, underworlds, body art cultures and virtual communities. The subject asks stu... Semester 2 12.50
106-433 Genre Interventions
The subject teaches an understanding of genres in their social, historical and theoretical contexts. It will focus on the analysis of texts working in a range of literary and non-literary genres (the joke, the blog, the crime novel, the curse, the no... Semester 2 12.50
106-454 Melancholy in Australian Literature
This subject will explore melancholy in Australian literature and its relation to contemporary cultural and political formations. Students will read contemporary writers who express the tedium-vitae of late modernity, (eg. Houellebecq, Sebald) and tr... Semester 1 12.50
106-457 Literary Pleasure
This subject examines the uses and abuses of literary pleasure, considering it as a category of analysis that develops historically from the eighteenth century with the emergence of literature as an institution and disciplinary formation. Through a s... Semester 2 12.50
106-458 Dickens and the Condition of England
Widely regarded as one of the most important writers of the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens was responsible for some of the most memorable novels of the period and is viewed as one of the first transatlantic literary celebrities. This subject wil... Semester 2 12.50
106-459 Postcolonial Writing and Theory
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-464 Cosmic Pandemonium in Paradise Lost
This subject explores the great revolutions of the English seventeenth century through the prism of John Milton's epic Paradise Lost (1667, 1674). Weekly seminars will offer a close reading of each of the 12 books of the poem in the context of s... Semester 1 12.50
106-467 Latin Paleography and Codicology
Students taking this subject will study textual criticism; the elements of codicology and paleography; and examples of the major European bookhands in the Middle Ages. They will complete exercises in transcription and learn to implement their new edi... Semester 1 12.50
106-468 The Black Presence in American Fiction
In this subject students study the ways in which American writing of both the 19th and the 20th centuries has been both haunted and preoccupied by the black presence. Focusing on a range of canonical literary texts and critical articles that relate l... Semester 1 12.50
131-423 Medieval Manuscripts & Early Print
This interdisciplinary advanced seminar will explore some of the key features and themes of manuscript and print cultures in Central and Western Europe from the 13th to 17th centuries, a time of radical change in communication technology and of major... Semester 2 12.50
760-418 Postmodern Theatre
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
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