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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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Contemporary Australian Literature

  • Unit Code

    CCC3106

  • Year

    2020

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Donna Jean MAZZA

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.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not OfferedNot Offered13 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 1Not OfferedNot Offered13 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

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
EssayClose textual study40%
ProjectCreative writing project or Research project60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayClose textual study40%
ProjectCreative writing project or Research project60%

Core Reading(s)

  • Winton, T. (2008). Breath. Camberwell, Australia: Penguin Books. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/225975281?databaseList=638
  • Nowra, L. (2012). Into that forest. Crows Nest, Australia: Allen & Unwin. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/796051012?databaseList=638
  • Wood, C. (2015). The Natural Way of Things. Crows Nest, Australia: Allen & Unwin. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/927438442?databaseList=638
  • Grenville, K. (2005). The secret river. Melbourne, Australia: Text publishing. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/70061296?databaseList=638

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Contemporary Australian Literature

  • Unit Code

    CCC3106

  • Year

    2020

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Donna Jean MAZZA

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.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not OfferedNot Offered13 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 1Not OfferedNot Offered13 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

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
EssayClose textual study40%
ProjectCreative writing project or Research project60%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayClose textual study40%
ProjectCreative writing project or Research project60%

Core Reading(s)

  • Winton, T. (2008). Breath. Camberwell, Australia: Penguin Books. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/225975281?databaseList=638
  • Nowra, L. (2012). Into that forest. Crows Nest, Australia: Allen & Unwin. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/796051012?databaseList=638
  • Wood, C. (2015). The Natural Way of Things. Crows Nest, Australia: Allen & Unwin. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/927438442?databaseList=638
  • Grenville, K. (2005). The secret river. Melbourne, Australia: Text publishing. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/70061296?databaseList=638

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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