ALL202 - Writing Modern Worlds
Unit details
| Year: | 2021 unit information |
|---|---|
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| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Cloud (online), CBD* |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: David McCooey |
| Cohort rule: | Nil |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | ALL432 |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | 1 x 1-hour class per week, 1 x 2-hour seminar per week |
| Scheduled learning activities - cloud: | Online independent and collaborative learning activities including: 1 x 1-hour class per week (recordings provided) |
Note:*CBD refers to the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute; Community Based Delivery | |
Content
This unit focuses on the emergence and development of literary modernisms, introducing students to a predominantly British-based modernist tradition as well as alternative cultural and regionally specific literary modernisms. The unit will consider literary modernisms in light of the text's relationship with the past; war; the everyday; and the demise of mimesis and the subsequent articulation of the autonomy of art. It also considers how literary modernisms reflect and critique their contexts of cultural production, and the role of the metropolis, mass culture, gender, sexuality, race, and class. The unit also considers features of late modernism and of interrelated postmodernism such as self-reflexivity, irony, parody, metafiction, and intertextuality. Writers studied include T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Michael Cunningham.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Apply knowledge of literary history, literary language, and critical and creative approaches to a range of modern literature | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Utilize digital technologies to access research materials on literature as well as to draw on these technologies when constructing critical and/or creative research outputs | GLO2 Digital literacy |
| ULO4 | Undertake close reading of literary texts in terms of their formal properties and historical context Apply critical methodologies in the thematic and formal analysis of literary texts | GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO5 | Investigate and analyse literature in order to understand how literary texts can represent new understandings of modernity, cultural histories and modes of being, and generate possible ways of articulating affects and subjectivities | GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO6 | Demonstrate self management capacities in selection of relevant theoretical and interdisciplinary contexts in which to understand and create informed interpretations and responses to set texts on modernism, postmodernism, and modernity and be responsible and accountable for continued learning | GLO6: Self-management |
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1 - Critical essay | 1500 words | 40% | Week 6 |
| Assessment 2 - Class/Online exercise | 20% | Week 8 | |
| Assessment 3 - Critical OR Creative essay | 1500 words | 40% | Week 12 |
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
There is no prescribed text. Unit materials are provided via the unit site. This includes unit topic readings and references to further information.
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