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English is about language, history and culture. It is about art and aesthetics, meaning and value. At the University of Waikato, papers are drawn from literatures written in English since medieval times, and from all major English-speaking cultures, especially from the United Kingdom, North America, India, Australia, and New Zealand.
English is available as a major for the BA. English may also be taken as a second major or as a supporting subject within other undergraduate degrees, subject to academic approval of the Faculty or School of Studies in which the student is enrolled.
To complete a major in English, students must gain 120 points above 100 level in English, including at least 60 points above 200 level. It is recommended that students intending to major in English include two of ENGL104, ENGL105, ENGL108 or ENGL112 in the first year of their programme of study. One of GERM302, SPAN305, and THST207 may be counted towards a major in English.
Students considering graduate study in English are advised to include a range of modern and historical papers in English in their undergraduate programme of study
Note: Candidates must gain at least 60 points at 100 level in any subject(s) before enrolling in English papers above 100 level, and at least 90 points at 100 and 200 level before enrolling in English papers above 200 level.
| 100 level | 200 level | 300 level | Prescriptions for the GradCert(Engl) and GradDip(Engl) | Prescriptions for the PGCert(Engl), PGDip(Engl), BA(Hons) and MA | Prescriptions for the MPhil | Prescriptions for the PhD |
100 level |
| ARTS101 - 12A (HAM) - Old Worlds - New Worlds |
| ENGL104 - Telling the Story |
| ENGL105 - 12A (HAM) - New Zealand Literature |
| ENGL108 - American Literature 1: America Now |
| ENGL112 - 12B (HAM) - From Page to Screen: Literature as Text and Film |
| ENGL113 - 12B (HAM) - English.Confidence |
200 level |
| ANTH206 - Food, Taste, Cuisine: Origins and Transformations |
| ENGL201 - Medieval Literature: An Introduction |
| ENGL202 - 12B (HAM) - Shakespeare's Theatre |
| ENGL203 - 12A (HAM) - Global Fictions |
| ENGL204 - Comedy |
| ENGL205 - New Zealand Literature 2 |
| ENGL208 - American Literature 2: Gods and Monsters |
| ENGL211 - 12B (HAM) - Food Writing |
| ENGL212 - The Poetry Code |
| ENGL213 - 12B (HAM) & 12S (HAM) - Creative Writing: Creative Non-fiction |
| ENGL214 - An Introduction to the History of the English Language |
| ENGL215 - Creative Writing: Voice and Image |
| ENGL217 - 12A (NET) - Writing and Audience |
300 level |
| ENGL301 - Late Medieval and Early Tudor Writing |
| ENGL303 - Renaissance Literature |
| ENGL304 - Victorian Literature |
| ENGL305 - Ravishing Maidens and Errant Knights: Appropriating the Middle Ages |
| ENGL307 - Eighteenth Century Literature |
| ENGL308 - American Literature 3: Finding America |
| ENGL309 - 12A (HAM) - Going Places: Life, Literature and Travel |
| ENGL310 - Cyber Reading/Cyber Writing |
| ENGL314 - Creative Writing: Creative Non-Fiction |
| ENGL315 - Modern Scottish Literature: an Introduction |
| ENGL316 - 12B (HAM) - Literary Theory |
| ENGL318 - 12S (HAM) - Creative Writing: Voice and Image |
| ENGL320 - 12B (HAM) - Tragedy |
| ENGL321 - 12A (HAM) - The Gothic Mode: Text and Theory |
| ENGL322 - Special Topic |
| ENGL390 - 12A (HAM) & 12B (HAM) - Directed Study |
Prescriptions for the GradCert(Engl) and GradDip(Engl) A Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma are available to graduates who have not included English at an advanced level in their first degree. |
Prescriptions for the PGCert(Engl), PGDip(Engl), BA(Hons) and MA To be eligible to be considered for enrolment in graduate English papers, a student should normally have at least a B average in either the best three of their 300 level English papers or all their undergraduate English papers. |
| ENGL501 - Medieval Literature |
| ENGL502 - Shakespeare |
| ENGL503 - Women and Writing in the 20th Century |
| ENGL504 - Eighteenth Century Novel |
| ENGL508 - American Literature: Problems of Identity |
| ENGL509 - 12B (HAM) - The Literature of Trauma |
| ENGL515 - 12A (HAM) - New Zealand Literature |
| ENGL517 - Victorian Literature |
| ENGL530 - 12A (HAM) - Special Topic: Victorian Women: The Brontes |
| ENGL546 - Creative Writing |
| ENGL556 - 12A (HAM) & 12B (HAM) - Write/Edit/Text |
| ENGL590 - 12A (HAM), 12B (HAM) & 12C (HAM) - Directed Study |
| ENGL591 - 12C (HAM) - Dissertation |
| ENGL592 - 12C (HAM) - Dissertation |
| ENGL593 - 12C (HAM) - English Thesis |
| ENGL594 - 12C (HAM) - English Thesis |
Prescriptions for the MPhil The Master of Philosophy is a one year research-based degree in which students undertake a programme of approved and supervised research that leads to a thesis which critically investigates an approved topic of substance and significance, demonstrates expertise in the methods of research and scholarship, displays intellectual independence and makes a substantial original contribution to the subject area concerned, and is of publishable quality. |
| ENGL800 - 12C (HAM) - English MPhil Thesis |
Prescriptions for the PhD The Doctor of Philosophy is a two year research-based degree in which students undertake a programme of approved and supervised research that leads to a thesis which critically investigates an approved topic of substance and significance, demonstrates expertise in the methods of research and scholarship, displays intellectual independence and makes a substantial original contribution to the subject area concerned, and is of publishable quality. |
| ENGL900 - 12C (HAM) - English PhD Thesis |
Current information as of 15 May 2012 5:04pm
