Available to students in other Western Sydney University programs?  No

The Secondary English Education Major will provide students with 60 credit points of English discipline knowledge and 20 credit points of English pedagogy and curriculum knowledge. Together with completion of subjects in the Bachelor of Education (Secondary), this Major will enable students to meet requirements to graduate from the Bachelor of Education (Secondary) with the English teaching area. The Secondary English Education Major will span the Foundation and Development phases of the Bachelor of Education (Secondary), enabling students to develop strong pedagogical content knowledge, an understanding of evidence-based pedagogies, and skills in using assessment and feedback to guide and enhance student learning.

Location

Location (Specialisation)

Campus	Mode	Advice
Bankstown City Campus	Internal	SecondaryEnquiries@westernsydney.edu.au
Penrith Campus	Internal	SecondaryEnquiries@westernsydney.edu.au

Major Structure

• Please note: Subjects that are part of the majors are subject to availability. Students may need to travel to different campuses to complete some of these subjects.

Students must successfully complete 80 credit points as follows.

Start-year intake

Plan of Study Grid

Year 1
Autumn session		Credit Points
COMM 1004	Approaches to Text	10
	Credit Points	10
Spring session
LANG 1015	Introduction to Literary Studies	10
	Credit Points	10
Year 2
Autumn session
LANG 2035	Methods of Reading	10
	Credit Points	10
Spring session
LANG 3094	The Value of Literature	10
Select one Alternate subject (from Alternate subjects listed below)		10
	Credit Points	20
Year 3
Autumn session
Select one Level 3 Alternate subject (from Alternate subjects listed below)		10
	Credit Points	10
Spring session
TEAC 3053	English Curriculum 7-10	10
	Credit Points	10
Year 4
Autumn session
TEAC 4019	English Curriculum 11-12	10
	Credit Points	10
	Total Credit Points	80

Mid-year intake

Plan of Study Grid

Year 1
Spring session		Credit Points
LANG 1015	Introduction to Literary Studies	10
	Credit Points	10
Autumn session
COMM 1004	Approaches to Text	10
	Credit Points	10
Year 2
Spring session
LANG 3094	The Value of Literature	10
Select one Alternate subject (from Alternate subjects listed below)		10
	Credit Points	20
Autumn session
LANG 2035	Methods of Reading	10
	Credit Points	10
Year 3
Spring session
TEAC 3053	English Curriculum 7-10	10
	Credit Points	10
Autumn session
Select one Level 3 Alternate subject (from Alternate subjects listed below)		10
	Credit Points	10
Year 4
Autumn session
TEAC 4019	English Curriculum 11-12	10
	Credit Points	10
	Total Credit Points	80

Alternate Subjects

Students complete two of the following subjects, with at least one subject at Level 3:

Subject List

Subject	Title	Credit Points
Level 2 Subjects
LANG 2015	Cultural History of Books and Reading	10
COMM 2016	Experimental Writing and Electronic Publication	10
COMM 2020	Introduction to Film Studies	10
LANG 2033	Literature and Decolonisation	10
LANG 2050	Medieval and Early Modern Literature	10
LANG 2036	Modern Australian Poetry and Poetics	10
LANG 2058	Race in Literature	10
HUMN 2044	Representing Everyday Life in Literary and Visual Cultures	10
LANG 2039	The Short Story: Nineteenth Century Women’s Writing	10
LANG 2044	The Gothic	10
LANG 2048	Working Grammar	10
LANG 2051	Writing and Reading Sci-Fi and Fantasy	10
COMM 2043	Writing Fiction	10
Level 3 Subjects
LANG 3001	19th Century American Literature	10
LANG 3002	20th Century American Literature	10
COMM 3005	Australian Textual Studies	10
LANG 3019	Children's and Young Adult Fiction	10
COMM 3006	Cinema and Experience	10
LANG 3100	Comedy and Tragedy: Dramas of Death and Rebirth	10
LANG 3069	Contemporary Irish Writing	10
LANG 3027	Creative Non-Fiction	10
COMM 3013	Creative Writing Project	10
LANG 3028	Crime Fiction	10
LANG 3029	Culture, Discourse and Meaning	10
LANG 3033	Film and Drama	10
LANG 3050	Introduction to Stylistics	10
LANG 3059	Law, Literature and Culture	10
LANG 3061	Literary Animals	10
LANG 3062	Literature and Philosophy	10
CART 3001	Modernism	10
COMM 3024	Modernity and Cinema	10
LANG 3066	Postcolonial Literatures	10
CULT 3020	Representing Crime	10
LANG 3072	Short Fiction in the Americas	10
LANG 3086	The Novel	10
LANG 3087	Women's Writing	10
LANG 3089	World Literature in Translation	10
LANG 3091	Writing and Society	10
COMM 3041	Writing For Performance	10
COMM 3042	Writing Poetry	10

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