Description

The major sequence gives students a solid grounding in the English language community from the early attempts to nationalise a language for the English people, to its contemporary status as a global tongue. English is the study of the way in which ideas are communicated and feelings expressed. This involves a consideration of the author, the audience and the conventions of literary communication. The historical and thematic study of the tradition, and the relation of that tradition to the Bible and to Greek and Roman literature, enables students to cultivate a critical faculty through contrasting and comparing writers and styles. The in‐depth study of individual masterworks develops in students’ conceptual thinking of a highly sophisticated nature, as they grapple with complex patterns and levels of meaning and the problems of communicating ideas and feelings through the imperfect medium that is language.

Students will gain an appreciation of the beauty of the language and the breadth of human imagination. Those who complete the major sequence should be capable, in their own writing and speech, to suit the word to the thought in a manner appropriate to whatever purpose they have in mind; be it business, pleasure, devotion or further studies.

Linked to courses

Units

Unit Required? Upcoming offerings
LN504.306 Right Writing [ show ] Required Face to face
LN533.306 Literature, Philosophy and Civilisation [ show ] Required Online
Face to face
LN632.306 English Literature Survey 1 [ show ] Required Face to face
LN734.306 English Literature Survey 2 [ show ] Required Face to face
LN661.306 Language and Community in Australia [ show ] Required Face to face
LN662.306 Write Creatively [ show ] Required Face to face
LN735.306 Reading Great Books [ show ] Required Face to face
LN736.306 Modern Literature [ show ] Required Face to face

For the specific requirements of this specialisation, please refer to the course check for this course.

Eastern College Australia is committed to ensuring as much as possible that its classes will run. If enrolments for a class are less than expected a unit may be offered in a different form such as less face to face classes or online so that it is still available to students.

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