| Assessment |
| Title |
Exam Length |
Weight |
Mode |
No. Words |
| Assignment 1 |
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60%
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3000 |
| Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and
Graduate Attributes (GA) |
| LO: 1-4
GA: 1, 2, 3, 6 |
| Take Home Exam |
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40%
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| Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and
Graduate Attributes (GA) |
| LO: 1-4
GA: 1, 2, 3, 6 |
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| Graduate Attributes (GA) |
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Attribute |
Taught |
Assessed |
Practised |
| 1 |
Knowledge of a Discipline
This unit introduces students to a range of texts and areas of debate within the discipline of Victorian literary and cultural studies. Knowledge is assessed through students' performance in the two set assessment tasks.
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Communication Skills
Oral communication skills will be assessed and practised in seminars (for on-campus students in weekly seminars and for off-campus students in seminars at the residential school). Written communication skills will be assessed as part of the essay assessment task and the examination.
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| 3 |
Global Perspectives
Global perspective and inter cultural competence will be taught, assessed and practised through all the learning activities of the unit, including advisory materials, seminars and in the assessment task. The content of the unit deals with nineteenth¿century Britain, including its colonialist and imperialist relationship to India and Australia.
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Information Literacy
While these attributes are not specifically taught or assessed as part of the syllabus students will make use of electronic information resources in order to research individual topics and to complete the written assessment task. References to electronic resources will be given in advisory materials and it is assumed the students will use basic research and retrieval skills to pursue these.
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Life-Long Learning
Lifelong learning will be taught and practised by encouraging students to read culture in an informed and critical way especially in the context of the seminar, lecture, advisory materials and in the assessment tasks.
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| 6 |
Problem Solving
In the advisory materials, seminar topics, essay and exam questions students will be asked to critically and creatively think through issues that arise from their study of specific texts (prescribed texts and additional readings). Furthermore they will be required to relate these texts to debates that were important for the Victorians; thus problem solving is integral to the way the unit will be taught, assessed and practised.
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| 7 |
Social Responsibility
The content of the unit is largely concerned with social and political issues central to the Victorian period. In a practical sense the ethics of responsibility and respect for others will be integral to the student's effective and constructive participation in the lectures and seminar discussions that comprise the face to face teaching component of the unit.
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Team Work
On-campus students have an opportunity to practice team work in seminars. Off-campus students have a limited opportunity for such interaction at the residential school.
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