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

    Freedom to Play and Victorian Children
  • Unit Code

    ENG3214
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Jill Felicity DUREY

Description

The popular image of Victorian children is of girls in long flowing dresses with big bows in their long tresses and of boys in sailor suits. This unit goes behind this image to examine how the modern concept of childhood began to be developed in fiction from the late 18th century through the Victorian age and into the Edwardian. By using fiction and non-fiction texts students will interrogate the popular myths surrounding the Victorian child, whose image is often wrongly one of restriction.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Online.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENG3104, ENG4214

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the development of literature for and about the child from the late C18th to the Edwardian period.
  2. Construct critical comparisons on ways in which different writers have treated children in their fiction and demonstrate an understanding of why such differences exist.
  3. Discuss of the historical and literary context to the texts selected for study.
  4. Discuss the development of children's literature is related to the intellectual, social and literary contexts of the age.

Unit Content

  1. Moral education and the use of children's fiction for this purpose.
  2. Novels into film: 21st century adaptations of 19th century fiction.
  3. Novels of family life and the depiction of adults.
  4. Social and economic changes in late 17th and 18th centuries leading to the concept of the child as a social entity and to the development of literature specifically for this new social category.
  5. Victorian attitudes to the child.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online reading and participation.

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayEssay on the popular myths surrounding the Victorian child in selected children's literature of the long nineteenth century40%
ExerciseLeading Discussion Board20%
ExaminationExamination40%

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

    Freedom to Play and Victorian Children
  • Unit Code

    ENG3214
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Jill Felicity DUREY

Description

The popular image of Victorian children is of girls in long flowing dresses with big bows in their long tresses and of boys in sailor suits. This unit goes behind this image to examine how the modern concept of childhood began to be developed in fiction from the late 18th century through the Victorian age and into the Edwardian. By using fiction and non-fiction texts students will interrogate the popular myths surrounding the Victorian child, whose image is often wrongly one of restriction.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

Online.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENG3104, ENG4214

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the development of literature for and about the child from the late C18th to the Edwardian period.
  2. Construct critical comparisons on ways in which different writers have treated children in their fiction and demonstrate an understanding of why such differences exist.
  3. Discuss of the historical and literary context to the texts selected for study.
  4. Discuss the development of children's literature is related to the intellectual, social and literary contexts of the age.

Unit Content

  1. Moral education and the use of children's fiction for this purpose.
  2. Novels into film: 21st century adaptations of 19th century fiction.
  3. Novels of family life and the depiction of adults.
  4. Social and economic changes in late 17th and 18th centuries leading to the concept of the child as a social entity and to the development of literature specifically for this new social category.
  5. Victorian attitudes to the child.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Online reading and participation.

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.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayEssay on the popular myths surrounding the Victorian child in selected children's literature of the long nineteenth century40%
ExerciseLeading Discussion Board20%
ExaminationExamination40%

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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