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

    Select Literary Topics
  • Unit Code

    ENG3051
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery


Description

This unit investigates literature broadly with topics that may change from year to year. It may focus on generic forms such as short fiction; socio-cultural issues such as power and gender in topics such as "Australian Womens Writing"; or the work of an individual writer. Alternatively, it may focus on geographic connections such as "Australia China Literary Connections". Each new area will generate its particular descriptors, learning outcomes, teaching and learning processes for the semester in which it is taught.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse practical and theoretical issues associated with the selected field of study.
  2. Analyse texts in detail and with precision so as to achieve the above.
  3. Apply appropriate analytical and critical techniques, and theoretical models, to selected texts.
  4. Explain the ways in which the texts have been produced by, and have also contributed to, the construction of those contexts, both for their time and for today.
  5. Relate the texts studied to appropriate social, historical and cultural contexts

Unit Content

  1. A study of relevant theoretical and analytical models.
  2. Analysis of representative texts of selected authors, period, or area of study.
  3. Consideration of material which provides a historical, social and theoretical understanding of the field of study.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, workshops, viewing of relevant film and video materials.

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
AssignmentAssignment 130%
EssayAssignment 230%
ExaminationExamination40%

Text References

  • ^ To be selected according to themes selected for study by unit lecturer.
  • To be selected according to themes selected for study by unit lecturer.

^ 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

    Select Literary Topics
  • Unit Code

    ENG3051
  • Year

    2016
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery


Description

This unit investigates literature broadly with topics that may change from year to year. It may focus on generic forms such as short fiction; socio-cultural issues such as power and gender in topics such as "Australian Womens Writing"; or the work of an individual writer. Alternatively, it may focus on geographic connections such as "Australia China Literary Connections". Each new area will generate its particular descriptors, learning outcomes, teaching and learning processes for the semester in which it is taught.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse practical and theoretical issues associated with the selected field of study.
  2. Analyse texts in detail and with precision so as to achieve the above.
  3. Apply appropriate analytical and critical techniques, and theoretical models, to selected texts.
  4. Explain the ways in which the texts have been produced by, and have also contributed to, the construction of those contexts, both for their time and for today.
  5. Relate the texts studied to appropriate social, historical and cultural contexts

Unit Content

  1. A study of relevant theoretical and analytical models.
  2. Analysis of representative texts of selected authors, period, or area of study.
  3. Consideration of material which provides a historical, social and theoretical understanding of the field of study.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, workshops, viewing of relevant film and video materials.

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
AssignmentAssignment 130%
EssayAssignment 230%
ExaminationExamination40%

Text References

  • ^ To be selected according to themes selected for study by unit lecturer.
  • To be selected according to themes selected for study by unit lecturer.

^ 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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