Major and Minor Sequences
A major sequence in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies consists of a suitable first-year sequence, followed by either(i) two second-year units and four third-year units or (ii) three second-year units and three third-year units. Suitable first-year sequences are two first-year CLS units or any first-year English sequence,or a French or German first-year sequence involving some study of culture.
A minor sequence in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies consists of either (i) a suitable first-year sequence, followed by two second or third-year units or (ii) two second-year units followed by two third-year units.
N.B. Please note however that some units may only be offered in particular semesters and/or years. Follow the links below to the Faculty of Arts Handbook entry of the units for more information; including semester, year and campus availability of units.
First Year
Second and Third Year
- CLS2000 /CLS3000 - Introduction to Critical Theory
- CLS2030/CLS3030 - Reading Freud and Jung
- CLS2035 /CLS3035 - Intellectuals and Power
- CLS2045 /CLS3045 - Writing Lives: Women's Autobiography and Historical Fiction
- CLS2050 /CLS3050 - Narrative Practices
- CLS2055 /CLS3055 - Nature, Culture and Colonisation
- CLS2075/CLS3075 - Popular Fiction and Popular Culture
- CLS2080 /CLS3080 - Science Fiction: From Monsters to Cyborgs
- CLS2130 /CLS3130 - Culture and Society: Introduction to Cultural Theory
- CLS2160 /CLS3160 - Chinese Literature & Modernity
- CLS2250 /CLS3250 - Post-Marxist Critical Theory
- CLS2280/CLS3280 - The Fate of Art: Philosophical Aesthetics and Contemporary Culture
- CLS2420 /CLS3420 - Literature and Phenomenology: De Sade, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Tolstoy
- CLS2530 /CLS3530 - Modernism in European Literature
- CLS2550/CLS3550 - Romanticism and Revolution
- CLS2790 /CLS3790 - Postmodernism and the Novel
- CLS2810 /CLS3810 - Comparative Drama of the Twentieth Century
- CLS2820 /CLS3820 - Reading/Writing Nature
- CLS2920 /CLS3920 - Authority, Death and Desire: Medieval to Renaissance Literature
- CLS2950 /CLS3950 - Freud and Feminism
- CLS3150 - Belief and Perception
A number of other approved units may also be included in major or minor sequence in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies.
Cross-Listed Units
- CLA2040 /CLS3040 - Ancient Greek Theatre
- ENH2660 / CLS3660 - Here and There: Literature of Travel
- ENH2800 /CLS3800 - In Other Worlds: Postcolonial Literature
- PHL2120 - Language, Truth and Power
- VSA2140 /CLS3140 - Cross-Cultural Art: Asian, American and European
- VSA2190 /CLS3190 - Forms of Narrative Cinema
- VSA2710 /CLS3710 - Alternatives in Documentary Film: An Australian Focus
- WMN2030 /CLS3030 - Women, Media, Consumption: Feminist Cultural Studies
- WMN2080 /CLS3080 - Feminism & Popular Culture: Reading Mainstream Cinema
- WMN2150 /CLS3150 - Rethinking Global Culture: Sex, Race and Consumption
- EUR3520 - Filming the Nation: (Re)Configuring European National Myths
Fourth Year
A fourth-year Honours program is also available.