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

    Literature and Social Change
  • Unit Code

    CCC3103
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Donna Jean MAZZA

Description

This unit provides deep investigation of literary theory in fields such as postcolonial studies, gender studies and postmodernism. It will draw upon a range of literary works and consider ways social change and subversion are given voice through theatre, poetry and prose.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CCC3107

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply selected theoretical models to texts drawn from diverse cultures and voices.
  2. Demonstrate an awareness of the ambiguities and complexities of postcolonial and postmodern discourse and the need to clarify their own speaking positions.
  3. Identify and articulate critical perspectives related to literary theory, including language, gender, appropriation, globalisation, nationalism, hybridity and diaspora.

Unit Content

  1. Application of appropriate theoretical models to selected texts and discussions of relevant issues in literary theory.
  2. Critical reading of selected works representative of social change through thematic technical development and variation.
  3. Introduction to selected key concepts in contemporary literary theory drawn from postcolonial studies, gender criticism, Marxist criticism, queer theory or other postmodern literary movements.
  4. Study of background relevant to the development of postcolonial and other selected literature.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, audio-visual presentations and guest speakers.

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
EssayResearch essay40%
PortfolioPortfolio of tutorial activities20%
AssignmentProject40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayResearch essay40%
PortfolioPortfolio of activities20%
AssignmentProject40%

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

    Literature and Social Change
  • Unit Code

    CCC3103
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Donna Jean MAZZA

Description

This unit provides deep investigation of literary theory in fields such as postcolonial studies, gender studies and postmodernism. It will draw upon a range of literary works and consider ways social change and subversion are given voice through theatre, poetry and prose.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded CCC3107

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply selected theoretical models to texts drawn from diverse cultures and voices.
  2. Demonstrate an awareness of the ambiguities and complexities of postcolonial and postmodern discourse and the need to clarify their own speaking positions.
  3. Identify and articulate critical perspectives related to literary theory, including language, gender, appropriation, globalisation, nationalism, hybridity and diaspora.

Unit Content

  1. Application of appropriate theoretical models to selected texts and discussions of relevant issues in literary theory.
  2. Critical reading of selected works representative of social change through thematic technical development and variation.
  3. Introduction to selected key concepts in contemporary literary theory drawn from postcolonial studies, gender criticism, Marxist criticism, queer theory or other postmodern literary movements.
  4. Study of background relevant to the development of postcolonial and other selected literature.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, audio-visual presentations and guest speakers.

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
EssayResearch essay40%
PortfolioPortfolio of tutorial activities20%
AssignmentProject40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
EssayResearch essay40%
PortfolioPortfolio of activities20%
AssignmentProject40%

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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