Welcome to the Department of English, Creative Writing, and Australian Studies
The Department of English, Creative Writing, and Australian Studies is a department in the School of Humanities which is in the Faculty of Education, Humanities, Law and Theology.
Department Office: Room 253 Humanities (campus map)
English
English can be taken as a major sequence within the Bachelor of Arts.
WHY STUDY ENGLISH?
The study of literature can assist students to think critically and creatively:
- It trains students in the ability to shape their opinions with a real sense of human consequences.
- It offers an understanding of the nature and power of literature, and the way texts may shape attitudes to race, to gender, and to social and economic relationships.
- It enhances the ability to present views clearly and persuasively, and to analyse the arguments of others.
Few literatures are as rich and diverse as literature in the English language, and we explore this in many topics offered by the Flinders University department of English, Creative Writing, and Australian Studies.
COURSE OVERVIEW
A major sequence in English as part of the BA consists of 9 units of first-year English topics and a choice of English topics making up 12 units at each of the second and third year levels.
Topics in First Year review a wide range of texts and periods in literature, from Shakespeare to contemporary Australian writing. Emphasis is given to students’ development of skills in written expression and critical approaches to texts.
In Second and Third Years students may choose from topics ranging from sixteenth-century literature through to twentieth-century literature; topics that focus on life writing and ones that examine the transposition of literature to the screen. Other offerings include Victorian Literature, crime fiction, literary modernism, as well as regional writing.
ENGL1003 Imagined Worlds: Approaches to Literature
ENGL1004 Writing Nation: Australian Writing for Contemporary Audiences
ENGL1007 Short Stories and their Writers
ENGL1008 Fictions and Transformations
ENGL1001 Professional English
ENGL1011 Professional English in Law
ENGL1013 Professional English for Teachers
ENGL1014 Communication Skills for the Workplace
ENGL2101 Private Parts: Sex, Love and Marriage in C19th British Literature
ENGL2104 Shakespeare
ENGL2210 Chaucer and Middle English
ENGL2220 Scottish and Irish Literature
ENGL2261 Post-colonial Literatures and Cultures
ENGL2302 Fiction for Young Readers
For more information about courses offered in English please link to our First Year handbook and Second and Third Year handbook.
Creative Writing
Creative writing can be taken as a major sequence within the Bachelor of Arts. Flinders also offers a Bachelor of Creative Arts, which includes a Creative Writing stream designed for students already planning a career in the arts and communication industries. With the Creative writing major, pathways exist for students to move from undergraduate study in writing to a Graduate Diploma or Master of Creative Arts or research MA and PhD.
WHY STUDY CREATIVE WRITING?
The study of creative writing helps students develop the creative, practical, critical and collaborative skills necessary to pursue a career in the communication and creative industries or to advance to Honours or higher degree study. These core skills will be complemented by the skills and knowledge acquired by students taking related literary studies topics in addition to those in other BA disciplines. The major, then, will develop flexible, independent thinkers capable of analysing problems from different perspectives and of critical evaluation of their own and their peers’ work.
Graduating creative writing majors will be able to demonstrate a variety of skills and will have a portfolio of their creative achievements that will make them attractive to employers in the arts and communication industries. In conjunction with an English or other BA major, it will prepare them to be trained as teachers.
Creative Writing topic offerings range from Short Stories and Their Writers, Writing for Children, The Craft of Poetry, and Travel Writing, through to Life Writing and Writing and Designing for the Web.
ENGL1007 Short Stories and their Writers
ENGL2110 Writing & Designing for the Web
ENGL2301 The Craft of Poetry
ENGL2300 Writing for Children
ENGL2410 Life Writing: Reading and Writing the Self
ENGL2500 Creative Nonfiction
ENGL2503 Introduction to Creative Writing
ENGL2507 Wish You Were Here: Workshopping Travel Writing
ENGL2600 Publishing & Editing
For more information about courses offered in Creative Writing please link to our Creative Writing handbook
Australian Studies
There is a wide range of topics in a variety of disciplines in the University focused on the study of Australia . Australian Studies is a versatile cross-disciplinary program that can be taken as a major or minor sequence in the Faculty of Education, Humanities, Law and Theology and in the Faculty of Social Sciences.
The Flinders University Australian Studies Program is the most comprehensive in South Australia and one of the most extensive in Australia . It offers students the opportunity to study Australian society and culture through a wide range of topics in a variety of awards. Australian Studies topics can be taken in the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of International Tourism and Bachelor of Education/Bachelor of Arts degrees. The four Bachelor of Education/Bachelor of Arts degrees in which Australian Studies topics can be taken are the Bachelor of Early Childhood; Junior Primary/Primary; Middle School and Secondary.
Australian Studies has a continuing and important relationship with Indigenous Studies and in liaison with colleagues in Yunggorendi. A number of topics are cross-listed in the Australian Studies Major and in the Indigenous Studies Minor. For more information on the Indigenous Studies minor sequence students should contact Yunggorendi First Nations Centre.
WHY STUDY AUSTRALIAN STUDIES?
Postgraduate studies in Australian Studies can be undertaken in a number of universities in Australia and overseas. Australian Studies is afforded a high priority as a teaching subject in South Australian secondary education. Australian-based topics are also taught in schools at all levels, from early childhood onwards.
There is a demonstrated need for employees in both the private and public sectors to demonstrate knowledge of events and issues affecting Australia , in both the domestic and international spheres. There is an equally demonstrated need in a broad range of professional contexts for cultural awareness about issues relating to Indigenous Australians. The print and electronic media require informed and articulate analysts and advocates. Government and the public service are in need of employees who understand a complex, multicultural society. In addition, Australian Studies topics offer an essential dimension for students undertaking related studies in International Tourism. As an area of specialization with general relevance, Australian Studies offers much to those who wish to make connections between life in contemporary Australia , the region and the wider world.
AUST1001 Australian Studies: Identities
AUST1004 An Introduction to Aboriginal Studies
AUST2004 Indigenous Australian Art Today: Themes and Issues
AUST3998 Issues for Australians
For more information about courses offered in Australian Studies please link to our Australian Studies handbook.
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