Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Unit Convenor
Victoria Flanagan
Contact via victoria.flanagan@mq.edu.au
W6A 627
Lecturer
Stephanie Russo
Contact via stephanie.russo@mq.edu.au
Lecturer
John Stephens
Contact via john.stephens@mq.edu.au
Robyn McCallum
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Credit points |
Credit points
3
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
6cp in ENGL units at 200 level
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit examines the relationships between Australia's changing culture and society, and the literature that society produces for its children. It deals mainly with the literature of the past 20 years, and explores the representations of such issues as: maturation; relationships of self to place; structures of power and authority in society; and the quest for reconciliation between the white settler society and the Aboriginal peoples of Australia. These issues are examined in fiction, picture books, and film.
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Name | Weighting | Due |
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Class participation | 10% | Evaluated at end of session. |
Annotated bibliography | 40% | 3rd April, 2014 |
Major essay | 50% | 16th June, 2014 |
Due: Evaluated at end of session.
Weighting: 10%
Students will be graded on their class participation. If internal, they will be graded on their class contribution and preparation. If external, they will be graded on the basis of their participation in the iLearn Discussion Board. External students must make a minimum of one post per week (with the exception of week 6, when there are no lectures or tutorials).
Due: 3rd April, 2014
Weighting: 40%
Students must submit an annotated bibliography on the topic that they have selected for their final essay.
Firstly, please select one of the final essay topics and clearly identify it at the top of your bibliography. (Remember that you cannot write on the same primary texts that you used for your seminar paper.)
Find five items of literary criticism or cultural theory that are relevant to your proposed topic. They should each be the length of an article or a book chapter and at least four of them should be high-quality secondary research sources that you think are worthy of inclusion in your thesis bibliography. READ them. Write a 300 word assessment of each one indicating its value to your research for your thesis. Each entry should also list the full bibliographic details for each source.
Your assessment of each article will be evaluated according to:
· its relevance to your essay topic,
· your ability to provide a short and concise summary of the article’s main arguments,
· your ability to identify the article’s theoretical orientation and structure/organisation (What is the relationship between the conceptual frame and textual analysis? Are the concepts that frame the argument carried through in its textual analysis?),
· your ability to identify the process of review that you think the item must have undergone before appearing in public,
· accurate bibliographic citations.
This exercise will be graded in accordance with the rubric listed in the Weekly Guide on the ENGL 310 iLearn site.
Due: 16th June, 2014
Weighting: 50%
Please choose an essay topic from the list provided in the Weekly Guide, which is available from the ENGL310 iLearn site. This essay should be approximately 3000 words in length and should refer to two or three texts set for study.
We will also be looking at some picture books and some film/TV narratives (especially Summer Heights High, My Place (ABC TV series), The Lost Thing, Australian Rules and Yolngu Boy).
To complete ENGL310 students must:
*Absence from more than two tutorials without written explanation (medical or counselling certificate) will result in loss of the tutorial mark and will disqualify a student from passing the unit. University regulations also stipulate that a student must attempt every part of assessment in order to be eligible to pass a unit of study.
Notes on Participation for External Students:
External students must participate in online discussions via the ENGL310 iLearn site. External students should read the weekly texts and prepare the tutorial discussion topics in advance, then post responses to the tutorial questions and respond to the posts of other students, to facilitate an active discussion such as would occur in a face-to-face tutorial. Students are also encouraged to raise other relevant points of interest in their online discussions. Be prepared to question the opinions of others, to have your opinions challenged and to participate actively in discussion. Students are expected to make at least 12 posts* over the semester.
*A “post” is defined as a discursive response relevant to unit interests of at least 50 words: a short paragraph of at least 4 sentences.
Week 1: Cultural Production and Criticism of Australian Children’s Literature
Week 2: Glocalisation: The Interplay Between the Global and Local in Australian Adolescent Fiction and Film
Week 3: Images of Australian Childhood
Week 4: Society and Setting in Australian Picture Books
Week 5: Fiction into Other Genres
Week 6: Australian Television for Children/Adolescents and Constructions of Australian Society
Week 7: Cultural Change and Transition
Week 8: Coming of Age Narratives in Australian Children's Literature
Week 9: Identity, Youth Culture and Aboriginality in Yolngu Boy
Week 10: Social Values and Varieties of Social Transgressiveness
Week 11: (Re)Gendering Australian Texts
Week 12: Establishing Contexts: Historical Fiction
Week 13: No lectures or tutorials (Reading week)
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