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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Contemporary Australian Literature

  • Unit Code

    CCC3106

  • Year

    2016

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit explores contemporary Australian literature with particular focus on fiction and poetry. It examines current experiments with form, genre and content and shows how these are linked both to the continuing tradition of Australian literature and to current social concerns including regionality and identity.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CCC2301, CCC3301

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Conceptualise Australian literature in terms of relevant theoretical concepts.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge of recent Australian literature.
  3. Identify and engage with contemporary debates and practices in Australian literature and culture.
  4. Recognise the principal themes in the selected texts and relate them to contemporary Australian culture and society, its indigenous and colonial heritage.

Unit Content

  1. Applying literary theory to works by Australian authors and considering how these might be models of creative production.
  2. Close study of selected contemporary Australian authors who are shaping the identity of Australian literature.
  3. Examining the thematic focus of works written by regional Western Australian authors.
  4. Identifying Australian literature through various thematic preoccupations in contemporary fiction and poetry, including their links to historic precedents.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, critical reading, audio visual material.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseCritical reading exercises30%
EssayClose textual study30%
ProjectResearch essay or creative project40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseCritical reading exercises30%
EssayClose textual study30%
ProjectResearch essay or creative project40%

Text References

  • ^ Van Loon, J. (2013). Harmless Fremantle, Australia: Fremantle Press.
  • ^ Miller, A. (2013). Coal creek. Crow's Nest, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
  • ^ Kinsella, J. (2011). Armour. London, Great Britain: Picador.
  • ^ Grenville, K. (2005). The secret river. Melbourne, Australia: Text publishing.
  • Cranston, C.A. & Zeller, R. (Eds). (2007) The littoral zone: Australian contexts and their writers. New York, NY: Rodopi.
  • D'Arcens, L. (2012). Old songs in the timeless land. Crawley, Australia: UWA Press.
  • Grossman, M. (Ed.). (2003). Blacklines: Contemporary critical writing by indigenous Australians. Carlton, Australia: Melbourne University Press.
  • Heiss, A. & Minter, P. (Eds). (2008). The Macquarie Pen anthology of Aboriginal literature. Crow's Nest, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
  • Huggan, G. (2007). Australian literature: Postcolonialism, race and transnationalism. Oxford, Great Britain: Oxford University Press.
  • Kinsella, J. (2008). Contrary rhetoric: Lectures on landscape and language. Fremantle, Australia: Fremantle Press.
  • Brennan, B. (2008). Just words? Australian authors writing for justice. St Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland Press.
  • Ben-Messahel, S. (2006). Mind the country: Tim Winton's fiction. Crawley, Australia: UWA Press.
  • Kossew, S. (Ed). (2011). Lighting dark places: Essays on Kate Grenville. New York, NY: Rodopi.
  • Webby, E. (Ed). (2000). The Cambridge companion to Australian literature. Cambridge, Great Britain: Cambridge University Press.
  • McCann, A. (Ed.). (1998). Writing the everyday: Australian literature and the limits of suburbia. St. Lucia, Australia: Australian Literary Studies/University of Queensland Press.

Journal References

  • Westerly
  • Wet Ink
  • APAIS
  • Australian Book Review
  • Australian Literary Studies
  • Griffith Review
  • Heat
  • Island
  • Meanjin
  • Overland
  • Quadrant
  • Southerly
  • The monthly

Website References

^ Mandatory reference

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Contemporary Australian Literature

  • Unit Code

    CCC3106

  • Year

    2016

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit explores contemporary Australian literature with particular focus on fiction and poetry. It examines current experiments with form, genre and content and shows how these are linked both to the continuing tradition of Australian literature and to current social concerns including regionality and identity.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CCC2301, CCC3301

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Conceptualise Australian literature in terms of relevant theoretical concepts.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge of recent Australian literature.
  3. Identify and engage with contemporary debates and practices in Australian literature and culture.
  4. Recognise the principal themes in the selected texts and relate them to contemporary Australian culture and society, its indigenous and colonial heritage.

Unit Content

  1. Applying literary theory to works by Australian authors and considering how these might be models of creative production.
  2. Close study of selected contemporary Australian authors who are shaping the identity of Australian literature.
  3. Examining the thematic focus of works written by regional Western Australian authors.
  4. Identifying Australian literature through various thematic preoccupations in contemporary fiction and poetry, including their links to historic precedents.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, critical reading, audio visual material.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseCritical reading exercises30%
EssayClose textual study30%
ProjectResearch essay or creative project40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ExerciseCritical reading exercises30%
EssayClose textual study30%
ProjectResearch essay or creative project40%

Text References

  • ^ Wood, C. (2015). The Natural Way of Things. Crow's Nest, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
  • ^ Grenville, K. (2005). The secret river. Melbourne, Australia: Text publishing.
  • ^ Winton, T. (2008). Breath. Camberwell, Australia: Penguin Books.
  • ^ Nowra, L. (2012). Into that forest. Crow's Nest, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
  • McCann, A. (Ed.). (1998). Writing the everyday: Australian literature and the limits of suburbia. St. Lucia, Australia: Australian Literary Studies/University of Queensland Press.
  • Heiss, A. & Minter, P. (Eds). (2008). The Macquarie Pen anthology of Aboriginal literature. Crow's Nest, Australia: Allen & Unwin.
  • Huggan, G. (2007). Australian literature: Postcolonialism, race and transnationalism. Oxford, Great Britain: Oxford University Press.
  • Kinsella, J. (2008). Contrary rhetoric: Lectures on landscape and language. Fremantle, Australia: Fremantle Press.
  • Kossew, S. (Ed). (2011). Lighting dark places: Essays on Kate Grenville. New York, NY: Rodopi.
  • Webby, E. (Ed). (2000). The Cambridge companion to Australian literature. Cambridge, Great Britain: Cambridge University Press.
  • D'Arcens, L. (2012). Old songs in the timeless land. Crawley, Australia: UWA Press.
  • Cranston, C.A. & Zeller, R. (Eds). (2007) The littoral zone: Australian contexts and their writers. New York, NY: Rodopi.
  • Brennan, B. (2008). Just words? Australian authors writing for justice. St Lucia, Australia: University of Queensland Press.
  • Ben-Messahel, S. (2006). Mind the country: Tim Winton's fiction. Crawley, Australia: UWA Press.
  • Grossman, M. (Ed.). (2003). Blacklines: Contemporary critical writing by indigenous Australians. Carlton, Australia: Melbourne University Press.

Journal References

  • Australian Book Review
  • Australian Literary Studies
  • Griffith Review
  • Heat
  • Island
  • Meanjin
  • Overland
  • Quadrant
  • Southerly
  • The monthly
  • Westerly
  • APAIS
  • Wet Ink

Website References

^ Mandatory reference

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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