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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Australian Fiction
  • Unit Code

    ENG3165
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Susan Elizabeth ASH

Description

This unit introduces the creation of a specifically Australian narrative of settlement, colonialism, and the post-colonial nation. Unit content spans the 'Botany Bay' convict stories of the 18th century, popular fiction of bush and conquest in the 19th century, and finally 'other' versions of Australia constructed in contemporary literature by migrants and Aboriginal writers. The unit seeks both to set up and to critique Australian myths of nation and culture.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENG3052

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the notion of a changing national identity as represented in Australian fiction.
  2. Critique the constructions of Australian life and culture in fiction from the nineteenth to the twentyfirst centuries.
  3. Discuss the changing life experiences, ideas and challenges described and communicated by Australian writers, cross-culturally and internationally, from the nineteenth century through to the twenty-first century.
  4. Explain and evaluate the features that define Australian fiction as a distinctive national literature.
  5. Work collaboratively in research teams to access, use, and draw conclusions based on digital archives on 19th century popular fiction.

Unit Content

  1. Concepts of, and the generation of ideas in, a changing national identity.
  2. Literary and cross-cultural features of Australian fiction.
  3. Nineteenth-century popular Australian fiction.
  4. Notion itself of a national literature.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, individual research.

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
EssayAnalysis of selected Australian fiction35%
JournalSummative narrative and reflective responses40%
PresentationTutorial presentation of team research project.15%
ParticipationParticipation in tutorials 10%

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.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Australian Fiction
  • Unit Code

    ENG3165
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Susan Elizabeth ASH

Description

This unit introduces the creation of a specifically Australian narrative of settlement, colonialism, and the post-colonial nation. Unit content spans the 'Botany Bay' convict stories of the 18th century, popular fiction of bush and conquest in the 19th century, and finally 'other' versions of Australia constructed in contemporary literature by migrants and Aboriginal writers. The unit seeks both to set up and to critique Australian myths of nation and culture.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENG3052

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Analyse the notion of a changing national identity as represented in Australian fiction.
  2. Critique the constructions of Australian life and culture in fiction from the nineteenth to the twentyfirst centuries.
  3. Discuss the changing life experiences, ideas and challenges described and communicated by Australian writers, cross-culturally and internationally, from the nineteenth century through to the twenty-first century.
  4. Explain and evaluate the features that define Australian fiction as a distinctive national literature.
  5. Work collaboratively in research teams to access, use, and draw conclusions based on digital archives on 19th century popular fiction.

Unit Content

  1. Concepts of, and the generation of ideas in, a changing national identity.
  2. Literary and cross-cultural features of Australian fiction.
  3. Nineteenth-century popular Australian fiction.
  4. Notion itself of a national literature.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Seminars, individual research.

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
EssayAnalysis of selected Australian fiction35%
JournalSummative narrative and reflective responses40%
PresentationTutorial presentation of team research project.15%
ParticipationParticipation in tutorials 10%

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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