Bachelor of Arts (English Studies) - AUT University

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AUT University’s English Studies degree is the most contemporary in New Zealand. English Studies graduates will have many skills, including the ability to compose written, spoken and multimedia texts to a sophisticated level for a variety of different purposes. The major is made up of two complementary areas of focus. First, the use of language as both an object of study and a vehicle for various purposes (e.g. language and communication and modern rhetoric). The second area concentrates on literature and culture (including both regional and broader English literature/s). There are, in addition, electives in a variety of areas, including creative writing.

Programme Code: AK3704
Level: 7
Points: 360
Duration: Three years full time / Equivalent part time
Venue: City Campus
Starting date: 3 March 2008 / 21 July 2008
Application deadline: 16 November 2007 / 27 June 2008

AUT encourages early application.
Late applications will be accepted if the programme is not full.

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

• University Entrance

Note: Entrance to university does not guarantee admission to a specific programme of study.

SPECIAL ADMISSION

Applicants over 20 years of age who do not hold a university entrance qualification (such as NCEA or CIE above) may qualify for university entrance via Special Admission.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS

Applicants for whom English or Māori is not their first language are required to provide proof of an acceptable pass/grade gained in an accepted English language test. 

THE KEY SKILLS YOU WILL ACQUIRE

Graduates will attain high-level technical expertise in, and working knowledge of, the English language and the genres and media used to communicate in English, as well as an appreciation of its cultural and literary aspects. You will acquire the skills to analyse English from the various disciplinary perspectives of linguistics, media, literary and cultural studies. This will enable you to identify key written, spoken and visual genres in English and interpret their features and underlying ideologies. Your ability to produce written, spoken and visual language in a variety of media will also be developed to a high level.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

A Bachelor of Arts in English Studies will be especially useful for media, advertising, marketing, public relations, trade, tourism, diplomacy as well as teaching English and work in the creative industries. There are career-focused pathways within the degree, including a variety of minors in areas such as multimedia, public relations, advertising, and creative writing, some of which allow you to gain industry-standard certificates while studying for your major (such as the minors in Teaching English to Speakers of a Second Language and Translation and Interpreting studies). Students can undertake double-majors in a variety of other arts subjects or a conjoint with the Bachelor of Business or Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences (subject to approval).

FURTHER STUDIES

Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Applied Language Studies
Master of Arts in Applied Language Studies
Master of Adult Literacy and Numeracy Education
Master of Creative Writing
Master of Professional Language Studies in Language Teaching
Doctor of Philosophy

PAPERS

CORE PAPERS
165108 iWrite
166109 iReflect
166110 iCommunicate
167100 iResearch

ENGLISH STUDIES PAPERS
165105 Introduction to Language Study
165106 Critical Language Studies
165107 A Pacific Reader: Literature, Culture and Text
165110 Reading New Zealand: Literature, Culture and Text
165523 Film Aotearoa/NZ: Cinema of Unease
166013 Methodology of Language Teaching
166014 Classroom Practice
166101 Language in Literature
166102 Language and Communication
166104 Popular Genres
166107 Phonology Applied
166108 Language in Society
166501 Creative Writing I: Voices
165502 Creative Writing II: Storylines
167101 English as a Global Language
167102 New Literatures
167103 Modern Rhetoric
167500 Creative Writing Project
167811 Focus on Language Teaching