CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO LITERATURE

ENG4CAL

2020

Credit points: 30

Subject outline

In this subject students will read a body of work that traverses eight centuries of literature in English, from Chaucer and Shakespeare to the present, and across three or more continents. The distinct approach taken in this subject brings together the close study of individual texts on one hand, and considerations of very contemporary debates, concepts and theoretical approaches on the other. It revisits the traditions that have shaped literary studies, looking at the ways literary texts arise from, depart from and return to orthodoxy; it studies different genres across time and place; it looks at 'time' and 'place' themselves; it looks at contestations over artistic 'centres' and 'margins', and the effects on these of theories and politics of affect, decolonization, sexuality and gender.

School: Humanities and Social Sciences (Pre 2022)

Credit points: 30

Subject Co-ordinator: Damien Barlow

Available to Study Abroad/Exchange Students: Yes

Subject year level: Year Level 4 - UG/Hons/1st Yr PG

Exchange Students: No

Available as Elective: No

Learning Activities: N/A

Capstone subject: No

Subject particulars

Subject rules

Prerequisites: N/A

Co-requisites: N/A

Incompatible subjects: N/A

Equivalent subjects: N/A

Quota Management Strategy: N/A

Quota-conditions or rules: N/A

Special conditions: N/A

Minimum credit point requirement: N/A

Assumed knowledge: N/A

Career Ready

Career-focused: No

Work-based learning: No

Self sourced or Uni sourced: N/A

Entire subject or partial subject: N/A

Total hours/days required: N/A

Location of WBL activity (region): N/A

WBL addtional requirements: N/A

Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes

Graduate Capabilities

COMMUNICATION - Communicating and Influencing

INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Critical Thinking and Problem Solving

INQUIRY AND ANALYSIS - Research and Evidence-Based Inquiry

Intended Learning Outcomes

01. Demonstrate knowledge of a range of theoretical and critical texts, studied in this subject

02. Demonstrate knowledge of academic citation and referencing protocols

03. Demonstrate knowledge of concepts central to understanding contemporary approaches to literary studies

04. Demonstrate the capacity to put this knowledge to effective use in the development of an argument

05. Write cogent and well-structured essays that mobilise students' reading and understanding of the relevant literary and other texts

Melbourne (Bundoora), 2020, Semester 1, Day

Overview

Online enrolment: Yes

Maximum enrolment size: N/A

Enrolment information: N/A

Subject Instance Co-ordinator: Damien Barlow

Class requirements

SeminarWeek: 10 - 22
One 2.00 hours seminar per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.

SeminarWeek: 10 - 22
One 3.00 hours seminar per week on weekdays during the day from week 10 to week 22 and delivered via face-to-face.

Assessments

Assessment element	Comments	Category	Contribution	Hurdle	%	ILO*
One 4000-word essay	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	50	SILO1, SILO2, SILO3, SILO4
One 4000-word essayStudents present work-in-progress towards the essay to a seminar attended by a range of staff members for formative feedback before submitting the essay.	N/A	N/A	N/A	No	50	SILO1, SILO3, SILO4, SILO5