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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

    Discovering Literature

  • Unit Code

    ENG1140

  • Year

    2018

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    3

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Susan Elizabeth ASH

Description

This unit introduces students to the basic tools of literary communication and the practices of close reading literature in order to equip them for advanced English study. We look at fiction and poetry in their historical contexts from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, with a focus on meaning-making strategies.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENG1109

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and debate the principal types of poetry and fiction in terms of their forms, themes, and other characteristics and relate these to the cross-cultural and international factors determining their development.
  2. Apply appropriate critical, analytical, and interpretative skills in the study of poetry and fiction.
  3. Identify the principal components of literature.
  4. Identify the relationship between specific texts and their historical, social, and cultural/international contexts.
  5. Read and analyse literature with enhanced critical understanding.

Unit Content

  1. A range of analytical approaches.
  2. Critical use of secondary sources.
  3. Poetry and fiction as social comment.
  4. Point of view.
  5. The forms of poetry and fiction.
  6. The historical and social contexts of poetry and fiction.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and tutorials.

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
TestQuiz10%
AssignmentAnalysis40%
Examination ^Examination40%
ParticipationTutorial Participation10%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

  • Stevenson, R. L., & Luckhurst, R. (2006). Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and other tales. Oxford [England] ;: Oxford University Press.

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

    Discovering Literature

  • Unit Code

    ENG1140

  • Year

    2018

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    3

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus

  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Susan Elizabeth ASH

Description

This unit introduces students to the basic tools of literary communication and the practices of close reading literature in order to equip them for advanced English study. We look at fiction and poetry in their historical contexts from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century, with a focus on meaning-making strategies.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENG1109

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse and debate the principal types of poetry and fiction in terms of their forms, themes, and other characteristics and relate these to the cross-cultural and international factors determining their development.
  2. Apply appropriate critical, analytical, and interpretative skills in the study of poetry and fiction.
  3. Identify the principal components of literature.
  4. Identify the relationship between specific texts and their historical, social, and cultural/international contexts.
  5. Read and analyse literature with enhanced critical understanding.

Unit Content

  1. A range of analytical approaches.
  2. Critical use of secondary sources.
  3. Poetry and fiction as social comment.
  4. Point of view.
  5. The forms of poetry and fiction.
  6. The historical and social contexts of poetry and fiction.

Learning Experience

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

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 1 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 2 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and tutorials.

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
TestQuiz10%
AssignmentAnalysis40%
Examination ^Examination40%
ParticipationTutorial Participation10%

^ Mandatory to Pass

Core Reading(s)

  • Stevenson, R. L., & Luckhurst, R. (2006). Strange case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and other tales. Oxford [England] ;: Oxford University Press.

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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