Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

The twentieth century was a time of significant developments and major transformations in writing and culture. Such transformations have continued into the present century. This unit focuses on a number of twentieth and twenty-first century writers from Europe, England, Africa, Asia, and the Americas, from modern to postmodern times, and explores the connections between texts, language, culture and society. Modern Times invites you to consider the social contexts in which texts are written, produced, interpreted and received, and how they are influenced by and in turn influence their respective cultures. The unit builds on the interpretive frameworks that are studied in the Introduction to Literary Studies unit, and encourages you to apply them to the texts.

Aims

This unit aims to provide you with the reading, research and writing skills necessary to an appreciation and analysis of literature from a diversity of cultures in the twentieth century.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to:
1. demonstrate an understanding of some of the major literary movements of the twentieth century through careful reading of literary texts;
2. interpret, discuss and analyse a range of twentieth century texts;
3. demonstrate in written and oral argument an understanding of how texts engage with their specific cultural and social contexts;
4. apply literary and cultural theories to an analysis of texts in oral and written forms;
5. gather, analyse and use relevant material from a range of sources including the internet in your presentation of written and oral assignments.

Content

The unit addresses content such as a chronological coverage of the literature selected from modern to postmodern times. It will be framed by critical and literary theories relevant to a consideration of these texts in their cultural, social and intellectual contexts.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

This unit will be conducted via a mixture of lectures, discussion groups, tutorials, film screenings, and online teaching. The tutorials will be the forum for formative assessment in conducting you through techniques of literary analysis and essay planning.

Assessment

LATE ASSIGNMENTS
An assignment submitted after the due date without an approved extension will not be marked. If you are unable to complete your assignment on time, you should submit on time whatever work you have done.

Faculty Assessment Information
To access the Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information please refer to the Blackboard site for this unit.FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
You will receive formative feedback on your progress in this unit during tutorials and discussions throughout the semester. Weight: 0%

Assessment name: Take Home Exam
Description: Summative) Two short written essays to complete for take-home exam.
Relates to objectives: 2,3,4.
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Mid semester

Assessment name: Essay
Description: (Summative) Essay of 2,500 words approx based on a topic from a list provided or by negotiation between lecturer and student.
Relates to objectives: 1-5
Weight: 60%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: End of semester

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

Required Texts

Abani, Chris (2007) Song for Night. Melbourne: Scribe

Achebe, Chinua (1959) Things Fall Apart. New York: Astor-Honor

Atwood Margaret (1996) The Handmaid's Tale. London: Vintage.

McEwan, Ian (1978) The Cement Garden. New York: Vintage International.

Ishiguro, Kazuo (2005) Never Let Me Go. Faber and Faber

Palahniuk, Chuck (1997) Fight Club. New York: Henry Holt & Company

Roy, Arandhati (1997) The God of Small Things. New York: Random House

Solzhenitsyn, Alexander (1963) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch. London: Signet Classic

Yoshimoto, Banana (1993) Kitchen. London: Faber & Faber

Blackboard material

Articles and other material will be posted on the CMDB for the Blackboard site for this unit.

Recommended References

Boehmer, Elleke (1995) Colonial and postcolonial literature: migrant metaphors. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press.

Bradbury, Malcolm & McFarlane John (1991) (eds) Modernism: 1890 - 1930. London: Penguin.

Fokkema, Douwe (1984) Literary history, modernism and postmodernism. Amsterdam; Philadelphia: J. Benjamins Pub. Co.

Levenseon, Michael (1999) (ed) The Cambridge companion to modernism. Cambridge, UK; New York: Cambridge University Press.

Loomba, Ania (1998) Colonialism/ postcolonialism. London; New York: Routledge.

Lyotard, Jean Francois (1984) Postmodern Condition: A Report on knowledge. Manchester: Manchester University Press.

McLeod, John (2000) Beginning postcolonialism. Manchester,UK; New York: Manchester University Press.

Moretti, Franco (1988) Signs Taken For Wonders: Essays in the Sociology of Literary Forms. London: Verso.

Said, Edward (1994) Culture and Imperialism. London: Vintage.

Risk assessment statement

There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 22-Oct-2012