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 that some units may only be offered in particular semesters and/or years: View the list of units offered in 2009.
Follow the links for each unit below to the Monash University Handbook entry of the units for more information.
First Year
Second and Third Year
- CLS2000 /CLS3000 - Introduction to Critical Theory
- CLS2025 /CLS3025 -19th Century Fiction: Realism, Capitalism and Psychoanalysis
- CLS2030 /CLS3030 - Reading Freud and Jung
- CLS2035 /CLS3035 - Intellectuals and Power
- CLS2050 /CLS3050 - Narrative Practices
- CLS2075 /CLS3075 - Popular Fiction and Popular Culture
- CLS2080 /CLS3080 - Science Fiction: From Monsters to Cyborgs
- CLS2100 /CLS3100 - Reading the Canon: Critical Approaches
- 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
- CLS2530 /CLS3530 - Modernism in European Literature
- CLS2550 /CLS3550 - The Romantic Revolution in European Thought and Literature
- CLS2790 /CLS3790 - Postmodernism and the Novel
- CLS2810 /CLS3810 - Comparative Drama of the Twentieth Century
- CLS2820 /CLS3820 - Earthworks: literature and environment
- CLS2920 /CLS3920 - Authority, Death and Desire: Medieval to Renaissance Literature
- 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.