Overview

• Studying at Honours level will give you the opportunity to pursue specialised skills in Literature, extending your capacity to research and analyse, and raise your scholarship to a higher academic level.
• Focusing on critical and cultural theory, classical literature and film, this degree will allow you to explore the nature and operation of cultural institutions, and the cultural production of meaning.
• With expertise available in both the great texts and innovative and contemporary works of poetry, prose, drama, film, new media and critical essays, you will choose among a range of literary forms, genres and periods while enhancing your skills in analysis, critical thinking and developing communication skills.

Further study

This degree serves as a pathway to further study, such as the Master of Research or the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD).

Career outcomes

• This degree will open up a career in teaching (with further study), librarianship, publishing, editing, media, critiquing or the public service.