Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Convenor-Lectirer-Tutor
Paul Sheehan
Contact via By email: paul.sheehan@mq.edu.au
25B Wally's Walk, Room 222
By appointment
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
130cps at 1000 level or above
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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 looks at a range of texts across the 20th century, from modernism to postmodernism and late modernism. The governing theme for the unit is what it means to be human, raising questions about memory, identity, agency, empathy, care and ethical responsibility. Topics to be discussed within these lines of enquiry include the death of God, the crisis of history, war and its aftermath, and changing gender dynamics. The range of international and Australian authors to be studied includes James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Gerald Murnane, Les Murray, J. M. Coetzee and Sarah Kane. |
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On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a mark of ‘0’ (zero) will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical issue.
This late penalty will apply to non-timed sensitive assessment (incl essays, reports, posters, portfolios, journals, recordings etc). Late submission of time sensitive tasks (such as tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, scheduled practical assessments/labs etc) will only be addressed by the unit convenor in a Special consideration application. Special Consideration outcome may result in a new question or topic.
Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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Textual analysis task | 10% | No | Sun 11 Sept - 11:55 pm |
Research essay | 40% | No | Sun 6 Nov - 11:55 pm |
Literature review | 30% | No | Sun 21 Aug - 11:55 pm |
Participatory task | 20% | No | Ongoing, weeks 1-12, scheduled classes |
Assessment Type 1: Case study/analysis
Indicative Time on Task 2: 10 hours
Due: Sun 11 Sept - 11:55 pm
Weighting: 10%
Each student to pick one work from first or second half of unit, and to write a 600-word analysis explaining how the text explicates and/or deviates from its given field.
Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 37 hours
Due: Sun 6 Nov - 11:55 pm
Weighting: 40%
2,500-word research essay related to a set topic.
Assessment Type 1: Literature review
Indicative Time on Task 2: 25 hours
Due: Sun 21 Aug - 11:55 pm
Weighting: 30%
Students to find a minimum of 5 recent journal articles or book chapters on their choice of modernist text, read and analyse each article for argument, then write a 1,000-word review of the field, explaining its current state and the issues discussed in the scholarship.
Assessment Type 1: Participatory task
Indicative Time on Task 2: 24 hours
Due: Ongoing, weeks 1-12, scheduled classes
Weighting: 20%
Preparation of notes for class relating to set tutorial topics and any addition research. Participation in group activities; answering questions in weekly tutorials and contributing meaningfully to in-class discussion.
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2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
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Unit information based on version 2022.02 of the Handbook