ENGL372 Australian Literature: 1930 to the Present

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Credit Points	6
Offering	Not offered in 2010
Intensive School(s)	None
Supervised Exam	There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites	ENGL101 and ENGL102 or ENGL100
Co-requisites	None
Restrictions	ENGL272 or ENGL472
Notes	offered in odd numbered years
Combined Units	ENGL472 - Australian Literature: 1930 to the Present
Coordinator(s)	Russell McDougall (rmcdouga@une.edu.au)
Unit Description	This online unit guides students through the period of modern Australian Literature from 1930 to the present, exploring its predominant ideas and forms and the ways in which writers have responded to major social and ideological issues.
Prescribed Material Mandatory	Text(s): Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material The 7 Stages of Grieving ISBN: 9780908156535 Enoch, W. and Mailman, D., Playlab Press 1996 Text refers to: Semester 2 , Online Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ISBN: 9780868190112 Lawler, R., Currency Press 1985 Text refers to: Semester 2 , Online The Ghost's Child ISBN: 9780143011880 Hartnett, S., Penguin 2009 Text refers to: Semester 2 , Online Tirra Lirra By the River ISBN: 9780330359719 Anderson, J., Pan McMillan 1997 Text refers to: Semester 2 , Online Susannah's Dreaming ISBN: 9780868190310 Hewett, D., Currency Press 1981 Text refers to: Semester 2 , Online Tourmaline ISBN: 9780702233111 Stow, R., University of Southern Queensland Reprint 2009 Text refers to: Semester 2 , Online Capricornia ISBN: 9780732289461 Herbert, X., Harper Collins 1986 Text refers to: Semester 2 , Online 60 Classic Australian Poems ISBN: 9781921410796 Page, G., UNSW Press 2009 Text refers to: Semester 2 , Online The Aunt's Story ISBN: 9781741667575 White, P., Random House Text refers to: Semester 2 , Online
Disclaimer	Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.

Assessment

Title	Weight	No. Words
Discussion Board	50%	2000
Assessment Notes
Guided week-by week online discussion

Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-4 GA: 1, 2, 8
Online Assessment	50%	2000
Assessment Notes
Online examination: 2 questions of 1000 words each. Students have five days in which to complete it.

Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and Graduate Attributes (GA)
LO: 1-4 GA: 1, 2

Learning Outcomes (LO)

Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:

demonstrate an awareness of the contested areas of Australian literary study, participating in the key aesthetic, historical and political debates;
apply informed and self-aware strategies for reading contemporary Australian literature;
show a good critical knowledge of the operation and effect of the forms, genres and narrative strategies of Australian literature (recognising and understanding post-colonial differences from European and US convention);
engage with Australian literature from a position of "powerful literacy", with a firm grasp of how literature feeds both off and into other cultural discourses (on race, class, gender and national identity) and with an ability to determine what the informing values of those discourses are (their relationship to ideology).

Graduate Attributes (GA)

	Attribute	Taught	Assessed	Practised
1	Knowledge of a Discipline This unit introduces students to Australian literature from 1930 and this knowledge is assessed in all set assessment tasks.
2	Communication Skills Students gain written communication experience in interactive bulletin board assessment. The online exam has an explicit instruction about the level of expertise required in written communication and format.
4	Information Literacy Level E online includes assistance with learning WebCT tools and functions, plus the ethics of electronic communication.
5	Life-Long Learning Students reflect on their own cultural self-knowledge in interactive forum and in historical perspective.
8	Team Work The Discussion Board is a crucial part of the unit's pedagogy, and students are asked not to send individual mini-essays to it, but to respond interactively to each other's messages. The degree of team learning evidenced in their overall Discussion Board progress is a criterion of assessment.

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