Second Major in English Literature

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Undergraduate

Curriculum Requirements for Second Major in English Literature

Students will be required to complete and pass at least 13 subjects.

1 Core Subject	• HL 101 Introduction to the Study of Literature

12 Prescribed Electives	Choose any 2 from the following level 100 subjects and at least one each from Category A-F. The remaining 4 can be selected from any of the prescribed electives. • HL102 Survey of English Literature I • HL103 Survey of English Literature II • HL105 Singapore Literature & Culture I • HL106 Introduction to American Literature • HL107 Classical Literature
	Category A: Period Studies • HL201 Medieval Literature • HL202 Renaissance • HL203 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature • HL204 Sensibility and Romanticism • HL205 Victorian Literature • HL206 Modernism • HL207 Contemporary Literature
	Category B: Asian Literature and Culture • HL208 Singapore Literature and Culture II • HL209 Southeast Asian Literature and Culture • HL210 East Asian Literature • HL211 Representations of Asia • HL212 Asian-American Literature • HL213 British-Asian Literature • HL214 Urban Culture Asia
	Category C: Film & Theatre • HL226 Reading Drama • HL237 History of Film • HL301 Film Theory • HL302 Film, Politics and Ethics • HL303 Film & Literature • HL304 World Cinema • HL306 Modern Drama • HL333 Performance and Cultural Industry • HL412 Advanced Studies in Drama • HL414 Advanced Studies in Film
	Category D: World Literature • HL222 South Asian Literature • HL232 African Literature • HL307 Postcolonial Literature • HL308 Postcolonial Women’s Writing • HL309 Comparative Literature • HL310 European Literature • HL314 Latin American Literature • HL326 Australasian Literature: Colonial to 1945 • HL327 Australasian Literature: 1945 to the Present • HL328 Writing the Pacific Rim in the Nineteenth Century • HL334 Irish Literature
	Category E: Literary and Cultural Theory • HL224 Approaches to Literature • HL316 Gender and Sexuality Studies • HL405 Literary Criticism • HL406 Reading Texts: Advanced Critical Theory • HL408 Postcolonial Studies • HL409 Popular Literature and Culture • HL410 Feminist Studies
	Category F: Specific Interest Subjects • HL215 War in Literature and Film • HL216 Literature and Madness • HL217 Directed Study • HL218 Fantasy Fictions • HL219 Children’s Literature • HL220 Creative Writing Workshop • HL221 Literature of Empire • HL225 Readings in Poetry • HL235 The Pragmatics of Rhetoric and Reading: Trivia • HL236 Virgins and Vixens • HL311 Science Fiction: Origins to Parody • HL312 The Discourse of Love • HL313 Postmodernism • HL317 The Rise of the Novel • HL324 Contemporary Women’s Writing • HL325 Photography and Literature • HL329 Arthurian Literature • HL330 Major Author Study: Shakespeare • HL323 Literature and the Arts • HL335 Magical Realism • HL402 Major Author Study: Chaucer • HL411 Modern Poetry • HL413 Advanced Study in Literature & Culture • HL415 Advanced Studies in Medieval Literature • HL416 Advanced Studies in Renaissance Literature • HL417 Advanced Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature • HL418 Advanced Studies in Romanticism • HL419 Advanced Studies in Victorian Literature • HL420 Advanced Studies in Modernist Literature • HL424 Advanced Studies in Contemporary Literature • HL428 Science and Literature
	Category G: American Literature and Culture • HL227 Early American Literature • HL228 Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Culture • HL229 American Modernism • HL230 Post 1945 American Literature and Culture • HL320 Ethnic American Literature • HL422 Advanced Studies in Nineteenth-Century American Literature • HL423 Advanced Studies in Twentieth-Century American Literature
	HL499 Academic Essay (optional) Students have the option to write an Academic Essay in the second Major, in lieu of one subject (4 AUs), provided the Essay is undertaken as an interdisciplinary project in conjunction with that required in the student's first Major.

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Undergraduate

BA in English Literature

Minor in English Literature

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Second Major in English Literature

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