| Assessment |
| Title |
Exam Length |
Weight |
Mode |
No. Words |
| Assignment 1 |
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10%
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On Campus
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| Assessment Notes |
| Structured class participation, including presentation |
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| Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and
Graduate Attributes (GA) |
| LO: 1-2
GA: 2, 6 |
| Essay |
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30%
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On Campus
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1500 |
| Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and
Graduate Attributes (GA) |
| LO: 1-4
GA: 1, 3, 6 |
| Essay |
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40%
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Off Campus
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2000 |
| Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and
Graduate Attributes (GA) |
| LO: 1-4
GA: 1, 3, 6 |
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| Final Examination |
2 hrs
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60%
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Off Campus
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| Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and
Graduate Attributes (GA) |
| LO: 1-4
GA: 1-3, 6 |
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| Final Examination |
2 hrs
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60%
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On Campus
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|
| Relates to Learning Outcomes (LO) and
Graduate Attributes (GA) |
| LO: 1-4
GA: 1-3, 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 contemporary literary and cultural studies. Knowledge is assessed through students' performance in the assessment tasks.
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| 2 |
Communication Skills
Oral communication skills will be practised in seminars and assessed in the form of a presentation (for on-campus students in weekly seminars). 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 the learning activities of the unit, including use of advisory materials and seminars, and in the assessment tasks. The content of the unit deals with twentieth and twenty-first century America, Australia and Britain, including the impact of key global events (the world wars, 9/11), their literary representations, and the impact on the human subject.
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| 4 |
Information Literacy
While these attributes are not specifically taught or assessed as part of the unit, students will use electronic information resources to research and complete the written assessment task. References to electronic resources will be provided in advisory materials and students will be expected to use basic research and retrieval skills to pursue these. Students will also be asked to prepare a bibliography as part of essay-writing.
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| 5 |
Life-Long Learning
Life-long learning will be taught and practised by encouraging students to critically read culture, in dicussion fora and in responding to advisory materials and 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. 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 individual and social experience within the contemporary period, and how this experience relates to the past and the present. Students will be asked to reflect upon how the ethics of responsibility to self and society raised by the texts translates in their own lives, including, respect for others in the online and face-to-face teaching environment.
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| 8 |
Team Work
On-campus students have an opportunity to practise team work in seminars. Off-campus students have an opportunity for such interaction on the learning management system.
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