Course overview
The Honours English Thesis provides an opportunity to undertake advanced level literary research in the discipline of English. The aim of the course is to enable students to explore a specialised literary topic of their own choice and to develop high-order research and writing skills appropriate to its study. Topics to be covered in the two hour thesis writing workshop each week may include advanced library research methods; the conventions of the research proposal, literature review, thesis argumentation and abstract in the discipline of English; key scholarly approaches to literary research and the assumptions that inform them. Students will also confer with their individual supervisors each week across the semester.
Course learning outcomes
- Engage with a topic in English Studies through analysis of a selection of texts, debates, theories and methodologies.
- Develop and use high order-research skills in literary studies.
- Prepare coherently and logically argued written material demonstrating effective engagement with analytical and methodological approaches to English Studies.
- Plan, research, organise and complete a long form written assessment (15,000 words).
- Engage in workshop discussions, present material in draft, comment on others' drafts, and facilitate workshop discussion.
- Collaborate effectively with peers in group discussion of texts, theories, and methodologies.
- Explore and utilise contemporary digital resources relevant to the preparation and completion of assessment tasks.