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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

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

    Home and Away: Introducing the Humanities

  • Unit Code

    HMN1101

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit introduces key concepts for study in the Humanities. Students explore ideas about the world across space and time as well as notions about Home and the right to travel freely about the globe. The unit investigates how the belief in a common or universal humanity has operated in a range of cultural and historical contexts. We ask questions such as: What ethical and pragmatic principles should underpin our communities? How should the needs of distant others, indeed strangers, be weighed against the needs of our local citizens? Throughout the semester, students will engage deeply with the merits and problems of cosmopolitan thinking.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Contextualise Western concepts from the perspective of the Islamic Golden Age.
  2. Critically analyse several genre, including drama, satire and political exegesis.
  3. Critically discuss key concepts, including human, humanism, humanitarianism, and the Humanities.
  4. Debate issues related to citizenship, migration, and trade in a broad historical and global context.
  5. Use appropriate academic skills to communicate ideas.

Unit Content

  1. Academic literacy skills.
  2. Ancient representations of trade, migration, cities.
  3. Elizabethan accounts of European exploration.
  4. European colonization, from the18th century to modern globalisation.
  5. Meccan trade and the Golden Age of Islam.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. 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
EssayReflective or expository essay20%
Research PaperExpository Essay40%
ExaminationExamination40%

Text References

  • ^ Shakespeare, W. Titus Andronicus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • ^ Seneca, L.A. (Ahl, F. Trans.). (1986). Medea. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Benhabib, S. (2008). Another cosmopolitanism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Griffiths, E. (2005). Medea. London: Routledge.
  • Caney, S. (2006). Justice beyond borders: A global political theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Derrida, J. (2001). On cosmopolitanism and forgiveness. London: Routledge.
  • Euben, R.L. (2006). Journeys to the other shore: Muslim and western travellers in search of knowledge. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Fine, R. (2007). Cosmopolitanism: Key ideas. London: Routledge.
  • Nussbaum, M. (2006). Frontiers of justice: Disability, nationality, species membership. Boston: The Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press.
  • Swift, J. (1729). A modest proposal. www.online-literature.com/swift/947/
  • Clauss, J., & Johnston, S. (Eds.). (1997). Medea: Essays on Medea in myth, literature, philosophy and art. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Journal References

  • Cosmos and History.
  • The International Journal of the Humanities.
  • Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

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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Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Communications and Arts

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

    Home and Away: Introducing the Humanities

  • Unit Code

    HMN1101

  • Year

    2015

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

Description

This unit introduces key concepts for study in the Humanities. Students explore ideas about the world across space and time as well as notions about Home and the right to travel freely about the globe. The unit investigates how the belief in a common or universal humanity has operated in a range of cultural and historical contexts. We ask questions such as: What ethical and pragmatic principles should underpin our communities? How should the needs of distant others, indeed strangers, be weighed against the needs of our local citizens? Throughout the semester, students will engage deeply with the merits and problems of cosmopolitan thinking.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Contextualise Western concepts from the perspective of the Islamic Golden Age.
  2. Critically analyse several genre, including drama, satire and political exegesis.
  3. Critically discuss key concepts, including human, humanism, humanitarianism, and the Humanities.
  4. Debate issues related to citizenship, migration, and trade in a broad historical and global context.
  5. Use appropriate academic skills to communicate ideas.

Unit Content

  1. Academic literacy skills.
  2. Ancient representations of trade, migration, cities.
  3. Elizabethan accounts of European exploration.
  4. European colonization, from the18th century to modern globalisation.
  5. Meccan trade and the Golden Age of Islam.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures. 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
EssayReflective or expository essay20%
Research PaperExpository Essay40%
ExaminationExamination40%

Text References

  • ^ Shakespeare, W. Titus Andronicus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • ^ Seneca, L.A. (Ahl, F. Trans.). (1986). Medea. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  • Benhabib, S. (2008). Another cosmopolitanism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Griffiths, E. (2005). Medea. London: Routledge.
  • Caney, S. (2006). Justice beyond borders: A global political theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Derrida, J. (2001). On cosmopolitanism and forgiveness. London: Routledge.
  • Euben, R.L. (2006). Journeys to the other shore: Muslim and western travellers in search of knowledge. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
  • Fine, R. (2007). Cosmopolitanism: Key ideas. London: Routledge.
  • Nussbaum, M. (2006). Frontiers of justice: Disability, nationality, species membership. Boston: The Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press.
  • Swift, J. (1729). A modest proposal. www.online-literature.com/swift/947/
  • Clauss, J., & Johnston, S. (Eds.). (1997). Medea: Essays on Medea in myth, literature, philosophy and art. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Journal References

  • Cosmos and History.
  • The International Journal of the Humanities.
  • Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities.

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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