English and Theatre Studies

English and Theatre Studies is a combined Program and students can specialise in either area. The Program offers studies in imaginative writing and dramatic performance. It focuses on their forms and traditions, and on the myriad ways they engage with the everyday world. The Program offers subjects in a wide range of fields, from the Medieval to Romanticism, Modernism, Postmodernism, and beyond. This includes British, Australian, American and postcolonial writing and theatre; and literary, cultural and performance theory. English and Theatre at Melbourne University is recognised nationally and internationally for its innovative teaching, scholarship and research.

Students who complete the specialisation should have acquired the following skills and competencies:

• an introductory knowledge of the main periods and trends in English and/English and Theatre studies;
• an introductory knowledge of key critical methods in English and/English and Theatre studies;
• general skills in the analysis of literary and/or dramatic texts, genres, histories, cultures and performances;
• general skills in research, writing, and thinking critically about creative texts and performances.

A specialisation in English in the Graduate Diploma of Arts consists of:

Level 1

• one level 1 English subject (12.5 points)

Level 2

• 37.5 points of level 2 English subejcts

Level 3

• The compulsory subject Critical Debates(12.5 points)
• and 37.5 points of level 3 English subejcts

Total 100 points

English Level 1 Subjects

12.5 points

English Level 2 Subjects

37.5 points

English Level 3 Compulsory Subject

12.5 points

English Level 3 Subjects

37.5 points