BA in English Literature (2011 Intake Onwards) 

TABLE A: Core (29 AU)



Course Code

Course Title

AUs

HL1001

Introduction to the Study of Literature

3

HL1002

Survey of English Literature I

3

HL1003

Survey of English Literature II

3

HL1007

Classical Literature

3

HL1005

Singapore Literature & Culture I

3

HL2024

Approaches to Literature

3

HL2038

Introduction to American Literature

3

Others

HL4099

Graduation Project

8

 

 

 


TABLE B: Core Electives (40 AU)



Choose at least THREE from Category A
ONE each from Categories B to G and the remaining 3 from any category.
(At least FOUR courses must be of HL4xxx).

Category A : Period Studies

HL2001

Medieval Literature

3

HL2002

Renaissance

3

HL2003

Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

3

HL2004

Sensibility and Romanticism

3

HL2005

Victorian Literature

3

HL2006

Modernism

3

HL2007

Contemporary Literature

3

 

 

 

Category B : Asian Literature and Culture

HL2008

Singapore Literature and Culture II

3

HL2009

Southeast Asian Literature and Culture

3

HL2010

East Asian Literature

3

HL2011

Representations of Asia

3

HL2012

Asian-American Literature

3

HL2013

British-Asian Literature

3

HL2014

Urban Culture Asia

3

 

 

3

 

Category C : Film & Theatre

HL2026

Reading Drama

3

HL2037

History of Film

3

HL3001

Film Theory

3

HL3002

Film, Politics and Ethics

3

HL3003

Film & Literature

3

HL3004

World Cinema

3

HL3006

Modern Drama

3

HL3033

Performance and Cultural Industry

3

HL4012

Advanced Studies in Drama

4

HL4014

Advanced Studies in Film

4

 

 

 

Category D : World Literature

HL2022

South Asian Literature

3

HL2032

African Literature

3

HL3007

Postcolonial Literature

3

HL3008

Postcolonial Women’s Writing

3

HL3009

Comparative Literature

3

HL3010

European Literature

3

HL3014

Latin American Literature

3

HL3026

Australasian Literature : Colonial to 1945

3

HL3027

Australasian Literature : 1945 to the Present

3

HL3028

Writing the Pacific Rim in the Nineteenth Century

3

HL3034

Irish Literature

3

 

 

 

Category E : Literary and Cultural Theory

HL3016

Gender and Sexuality Studies

3

HL4005

Literary Criticism

4

HL4006

Reading Texts : Advanced Critical Theory

4

HL4008

Postcolonial Studies

4

HL4009

Popular Literature and Culture

4

HL4010

Feminist Studies

4

 

 

 

Category F : Specific Interest Subjects

HL2015

War in Literature and Film

3

HL2016

Literature and Madness

3

HL2017

Directed Study

3

HL2018

Fantasy Fictions

3

HL2019

Children’s Literature

3

HL2020

Creative Writing Workshop

3

HL2021

Literature of Empire

3

HL2025

Readings in Poetry

3

HL2035

The Pragmatics of Rhetoric and Reading : Trivia

3

HL2036

Virgins and Vixens

3

HL3011

Science Fiction : Origins to Pradoy

3

HL3012

The Discourse of Love

3

HL4025

Postmodernism

4

HL3017

The Rise of the Novel

3

HL3024

Contemporary Women’s Writing

3

HL3025

Photography and Literature

3

HL3029

Arthurian Literature

3

HL3030

Major Author Study : Shakespeare

3

HL3023

Literature and the Arts

3

HL3035

Magical Realism

3

HL4002

Major Author Study : Chaucer

4

HL4011

Modern Poetry

4

HL4013

Advanced Study in Literature & Culture

4

HL4015

Advanced Studies in Medieval Literature

4

HL4016

Advanced Studies in Renaissance Literature

4

HL4017

Advanced Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

4

HL4018

Advanced Studies in Romanticism

4

HL4019

Advanced Studies in Victorian Literature

4

HL4020

Advanced Studies in Modernist Literature

4

HL4024

Advanced Studies in Contemporary Literature

4

HL4028

Science and Literature

4

 

 

 

Category G : American Literature and Culture

HL2027

Early American Literature

3

HL2028

Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture

3

HL2029

American Modernism

3

HL2030

Post 1945 American Literature and Culture

3

HL3020

Ethnic American Literature

3

HL4022

Advanced Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

4

HL4023

Advanced Studies in Twentieth-Century American Literature

4


General Education Requirements (27 AU)

TABLE C: GER Core (12 AU)



Communication:

Compulsory:

HW0121

The Craft of Writing

3

HW0302

Mastering Communication

3

Singapore Studies : Choose ONE from the following

HS8016

Understanding Singapore Society

3

HP8003

Are You Okay? Mental Health in Singapore

3

Environmental Sustainability : Choose ONE from the following 

HS8019

Living in Contemporary Cities

3

HU1001

Introduction to Environmental and Urban Studies

3



TABLE D: GER Electives (15 AU)



Student chooses 5 courses from 4 categories of studies with at least 1 course in each category

Science and Technology

Humanities and Social Sciences

Business and Management

Liberal Studies

Free Electives (30 AUs) - To be chosen from any school

Requirements for Graduation

Core                             29 AU
Core Electives               40 AU
GER Core                    12 AU
GER Electives               15 AU
Free Electives               30 AU
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Total                          126 AU