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The graduate entry Bachelor of Letters (English) is a 108-unit program for which 72 units of block credit is automatically granted on the basis of completion of a prior bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification. The graduate entry Bachelor of Letters (English) may be studied full-time over one year, or the equivalent part-time. It is offered by the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences.
The specialisation undertaken by the student will be identified on the student’s transcript of academic record and on the parchment presented to the student on completion of the course.
Applicants must normally hold an approved degree or equivalent qualification from an approved tertiary institution. The Dean (Education) may, however, under certain circumstances and subject to specific conditions, admit others who can show evidence of fitness for candidature.
The course aims to:
The course also aims to provide students with:
On the completion of the Bachelor of Letters (English), students are expected to be able to:
Students will also be expected to be able to demonstrate:
To qualify for the Bachelor of Letters (English), a student must complete 36 units at Flinders University, according to the program of study set out below, with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic.
No topic may be counted towards both the Bachelor of Letters and the student’s other bachelor degree, if that degree is studied at Flinders University. Students who have previously completed core topics below will be required to undertake additional option topics from the list below, or other topics agreed on with the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences to complete 36-units of study.
Students are not normally permitted to undertake cross-institutional study or exchange study within the Bachelor of Letters (English).
Not all topics are necessarily available in a given year.
9 units comprising:
ENGL1101 The Art of Storytelling (4.5 units)
ENGL1102 The Art of Reading (4.5 units)
Select 9 units from the following options:
ENGL2120 Shakespeare (4.5 units)
ENGL2121 Adaptations: Literature on Screen (4.5 units)
ENGL2130 Crime Fiction and Film: From Poe to the Postmodern (4.5 units)
ENGL2140 English Literature: Evolutions and Revolutions (4.5 units)
ENGL2141 Life Writing (4.5 units)
ENGL2146 Gothic: Terror, Horror and the Supernatural (4.5 units)
ENGL2147 Medieval Myths: the Origins of Modern Fantasy (4.5 units)
INDG2001 Black Poetics: Indigenous Literary Studies (4.5 units)
PHIL2609 Philosophy and Literature (4.5 units)
Select 9 units from the following options:
ENGL3112 Comedy and Satire (4.5 units)
ENGL3113 Heroes, Monsters and Vikings: Early Medieval Language and Literature (4.5 units)
ENGL3114 Writing in the Twenty-First Century (4.5 units)
ENGL3211 Telling True Stories (4.5 units)
Plus an additional 9 units from the Year 2 and Year 3 option topics listed above.
Every effort has been made to ensure the information published on the Course Rule pages is accurate at the time of publication. Flinders University reserves the right to amend its curriculum without prior notice, and will update the Course Rules to reflect any amendments at the earliest opportunity.
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