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

    Jane Austen: Past and Present
  • Unit Code

    ENG3175
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Susan Elizabeth ASH

Description

This unit explores the phenomenon that is Jane Austen: in her own milieu of the early 19th century and the extraordinary resurgence of popularity in the past two decades. We explore the technical innovations of the novels, such as Austens use of free indirect discourse to express irony, as well as the reception of the novel as a genre (particularly the gothic) in her own times. We also consider why there remains an out-dated resistance to Austen in academia because she confined her writing to a certain class of women in drawing and ballrooms.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENG3142

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply a range of critical approaches to the analysis of Austens novels and their adaptations, including a spohisticated language analysis of Austen's pioneering use of free indirect speech.
  2. Discuss the main critical issues relevant to the study of Jane Austen, and apply these in a comparative way with the different slant given by various film-makers.
  3. Discuss the practical and analytical issues associated with Austen and the translation of her work into film and other adaptations.
  4. Identify the ways in which Austens novels and their later adaptations contributed to the construction of social, historical and cultural contexts, both for their time and for today.
  5. Relate Austens novels and their film adaptations to their social, historical and cultural contexts.

Unit Content

  1. Historical, social and cultural understandings of Jane Austen, her work, and the adaptations of her work.
  2. A range of critical approaches, including that of sophisticated language analysis, and Free Indirect Discourse
  3. Contextual curriculum, including the fine de siecle period of 18th century, and the Regency period in England.
  4. Ideological concepts related to gender race and class.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and tutorials.

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 Essay35%
ExaminationExamination and quizzes40%
Presentationpresentation15%
ParticipationSeminar participation10%

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

    Jane Austen: Past and Present
  • Unit Code

    ENG3175
  • Year

    2018
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    A/Prof Susan Elizabeth ASH

Description

This unit explores the phenomenon that is Jane Austen: in her own milieu of the early 19th century and the extraordinary resurgence of popularity in the past two decades. We explore the technical innovations of the novels, such as Austens use of free indirect discourse to express irony, as well as the reception of the novel as a genre (particularly the gothic) in her own times. We also consider why there remains an out-dated resistance to Austen in academia because she confined her writing to a certain class of women in drawing and ballrooms.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded ENG3142

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Apply a range of critical approaches to the analysis of Austens novels and their adaptations, including a spohisticated language analysis of Austen's pioneering use of free indirect speech.
  2. Discuss the main critical issues relevant to the study of Jane Austen, and apply these in a comparative way with the different slant given by various film-makers.
  3. Discuss the practical and analytical issues associated with Austen and the translation of her work into film and other adaptations.
  4. Identify the ways in which Austens novels and their later adaptations contributed to the construction of social, historical and cultural contexts, both for their time and for today.
  5. Relate Austens novels and their film adaptations to their social, historical and cultural contexts.

Unit Content

  1. Historical, social and cultural understandings of Jane Austen, her work, and the adaptations of her work.
  2. A range of critical approaches, including that of sophisticated language analysis, and Free Indirect Discourse
  3. Contextual curriculum, including the fine de siecle period of 18th century, and the Regency period in England.
  4. Ideological concepts related to gender race and class.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures and tutorials.

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 Essay35%
ExaminationExamination and quizzes40%
Presentationpresentation15%
ParticipationSeminar participation10%

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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