Program Overview

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Program Overview

The Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies at the National University of Singapore offers a Single Major B.A. in English Literature program. This program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of English literature and its various aspects.

Program Requirements

To major in English Literature, students need to fulfill the following requirements:

• Pass EN1101E An Introduction to Literary Studies, which will be counted towards the Faculty Core or UE requirements.
• Pass at least 44 units of EN or EN-recognised courses, which include:
  • A minimum of 4 units at EN level-2000
  • A minimum of 8 units from literature before 1800
  • A minimum of 24 units at level 3000 or higher

Literature Before 1800 Courses

The following courses are considered literature before 1800:

• EN2201 Backgrounds to Western Literature and Culture
• EN2205 Late Medieval Literature and Culture
• EN2209 Literature and Culture in Ancient Rome
• EN2214 The Marvelous World of Journey to the West (in English)
• EN3218 Secrets of the Renaissance Library
• EN3220 From the "Age of Epic" to the "Age of TV"
• EN3221 The English Renaissance
• EN3222 The Eighteenth Century
• EN3226 Shakespeare
• EN3227 Romanticism
• EN3228 Women Novelists: 1750 - 1800
• EN3229 Shakespeare in His Time and Ours
• EN4221 or EN4221HM Topics in the Seventeenth Century (5 units)
• EN4222 or EN4222HM Topics in the Eighteenth Century (5 units)
• EN4227 Five Years in the Eighteenth Century (5 units)
• EN4251 or EN4251HM Jonathan Swift (5 units)
• EN4269 or EN4269HM Ovid the Innovator: Advanced Ancient Roman Poetry (5 units)
• EN4880A or EN4880AHM Usurpation and Authority, (5 units)

EN-Recognised Courses

The following courses are recognised as EN-recognised courses:

• EL3222 Cinematic Discourse and Language
• EL3258 The Sociolinguistics of Humour: Jokes and Comedies
• EL4221 or EL4221HM Narrative Structures (5 units)
• EL4253 or EL4253HM Language, Gender and Sexual Identities (5 units)
• PH2209 Philosophy of Art
• PH2219 Critical Theory and Hermeneutics
• PH2224 Philosophy and Film
• PH3214 Philosophy and Literature
• PS4220 or PS4220HM Rhetoric and Politics (5 units)
• TS2239 Major Playwrights of the 20th Century
• TS2241 Writing the Short Film
• TS3246 Shakespeare and Asian Performances
• TS4220 or TS4220HM Shakespeare and Film (5 units)

Program Requirements for Cohort 2016 to 2019

For students in the cohort 2016 to 2019, the program requirements are as follows:

• Pass EN1101E An Introduction to Literary Studies, which will be counted towards the Faculty Core or UE requirements.
• Pass at least 44 units of EN or EN-recognised courses, which include:
  • A minimum of 4 units from the following:
    • EN2201 Backgrounds to Western Literature and Culture
    • EN2202 Critical Reading
    • EN2203 Introduction to Film Studies
    • EN2204 Reading the Horror Film
    • EN2205 Late Medieval Literature and Culture
    • EN2206 The Arts and Social Justice
    • EN2207 Gender and Sexuality in Literature
  • A minimum of 16 units British Literature courses, with at least 8 units from British Literature (before 1800)
  • A minimum of 24 units at level 3000 or higher

British Literature Courses

The following courses are considered British Literature courses:

• EN2205 Late Medieval Literature and Culture (before 1800)
• EN2206 Art and Social Justice
• EN3219 Twenty-First Century British Fiction
• EN3220 From the "Age of Epic" to the "Age of TV" (before 1800)
• EN3221 The English Renaissance (before 1800)
• EN3222 The Eighteenth Century (before 1800)
• EN3223 Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture
• EN3224 The Twentieth Century
• EN3226 Shakespeare (before 1800)
• EN3227 Romanticism (before 1800)
• EN3228 Women Novelists: 1750 - 1800 (before 1800)
• EN3229 Shakespeare in His Time and Ours (before 1800)
• EN4221 or EN4221HM Topics in the Seventeenth Century (before 1800) (5 units)
• EN4222 or EN4222HM Topics in the Eighteenth Century (before 1800) (5 units)
• EN4223 or EN4223HM Topics in the Nineteenth Century (5 units)
• EN4224 or EN4224HM Topics in the Twentieth Century (5 units)
• EN4225 Asia and the Victorians (5 units)
• EN4226 or EN4226HM English Women Novelists 1800 - 1900 (5 units)
• EN4227 Five Years in the Eighteenth Century (before 1800) (5 units)
• EN4251 or EN4251HM Jonathan Swift (before 1800) (5 units)
• EN4880A or EN4880AHM Usurpation and Authority, (before 1800) (5 units)
• EN4880B Modernism and Empire (5 units)