Undergraduate Study in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
Interesting literature from around the world, some great thinkers, science fiction, ideas about culture, ecocriticism, some creative opportunities - Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies units include all these and more. A major sequence in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies can be one of the most diverse, interesting and challenging sequences a student can take in Arts.
By taking a sequence in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies a student can build a distinctive undergraduate programme which draws on units taught by the Centre as well on units from other disciplines in the Faculty of Arts. Students can create a lively and uniquely varied interdisciplinary sequence from these units.
As an undergraduate you can take a first-year sequence in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, described below, and then go on to do take a major or minor sequence in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies. There is also an Honours programme in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies.
First-year Sequences in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
In first semester students take CLS1010 Texts & Contexts 1, reading a range of literary and non-literary texts, for example Kafka’s stories and Ibsen's Ghosts. The unit encourages you to to learn some new ways of looking at texts, and gives you the opportunity to collect material and create a folio of your own examples.
In second semester students take CLS1020 Texts & Contexts 2 which looks at literature in relation to the major changes in the media, culture and society from the 19th to the 21st century. Focusses on Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein and the way its story has been reworked in later novels, films and television shows. Texts include Metropolis, Blade Runner, The X-Files and Buffy, the Vampire Slayer.
Later Year Units in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies:
There are several ways in which students can construct major and minor sequences in CLCS. The course structure page gives an outline of these sequences and a guide to units offered, with links to the online University Handbook.
For an outline of the Centre's honours programme, admission requirements and available units, see the Honours page.
Administration
The Undergraduate Coordinator for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies is Assoc. Prof. Millicent Vladiv-Glover, W805, phone (03) 9905 2256.