ALL727 - Sex, the Body, and American Poetry
Unit details
| Year | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Ann Vickery |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 2 hour on-campus seminar per week |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | 1 x 2-hour online seminar per week or approximately 2-hours of online learning tasks and discussions per week |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Content
This unit will introduce students to how poets have navigated andtransformed cultural understandings surrounding sex, gender, and thebody. Focusing on writing from the United States, students will considerhow the poetic has been mobilised in different historical periods to exploreaspects of desire, intimacy, subjectivity, and intersectionality. Students willbe familiarised with a range of forms, techniques, and literary movements(such as transcendentalism, modernism, Confessional, the Beats, and NewYork School). Through critical and creative approaches, students will alsogain insights into aspects of voice, agency, and audience. Writers studiedmay include Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, FrankO'Hara, Allen Ginsberg, Audre Lorde, Joy Harjo, and Maggie Nelson.
Learning Outcomes
| ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Apply knowledge of literary history, literary language, and critical and creative approaches to a range of poetries | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication |
| ULO2 | Utilize digital technologies to access research materials on poetry as well as to draw on these technologies when constructing critical and creative research outputs | GLO3: Digital literacy |
| ULO3 | Close reading of poems in terms of their formal properties and historical context. Application of critical methodologies in the thematic and formal analysis of poetry | GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO4 | Investigate and analyse poetry and performances in order to understand how poetries can represent new understandings of cultural histories and modes of being, and generate possible ways of articulating emergent subjectivities | GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO5 | Demonstrate self-management capacities in selection of relevant theories of sex, gender, and the body in which to understand and create informed interpretations and responses to poetry | GLO6: Self-management |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1: Exercise | 1500 words or equivalent | 30% | Week 4 |
| Assessment 2: Exercise | 1500 words or equivalent | 30% | Week 7 |
| Assessment 3: Portfolio and Critique OR Essay | 2000 words or equivalent | 40% | Week 11 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for ALL727 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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