| 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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