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ENGL372 Australian Literature: 1930 to the Present

Updated: 11 March 2013
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Trimester 2 On line
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 or ENGL572
Notes None
Combined Units ENGL572 - 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.
Materials Textbook information will be displayed approximately 8 weeks prior to the commencement of the teaching period. Please note that textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Assessment Assessment information will be published prior to commencement of the teaching period.
Learning Outcomes (LO) Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:
  1. demonstrate an awareness of the contested areas of Australian literary study, participating in the key aesthetic, historical and political debates;
  2. apply informed and self-aware strategies for reading contemporary Australian literature;
  3. 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); and
  4. 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. 		True True True
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. 		True True True
4 Information Literacy
Level E online includes assistance with learning WebCT tools and functions, plus the ethics of electronic communication. 		True True
5 Life-Long Learning
Students reflect on their own cultural self-knowledge in interactive forum and in historical perspective. 		True True
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. 		True True True
   

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