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Unit of Study ENG00401 - Issues and Themes in Contemporary Writing (2014)

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Unit description

Introduces students to a number of contemporary written texts. Major issues and themes are identified and a number of critical methods are exploited. Particular attention is paid to those issues and themes which can be seen as having special relevance to post-colonial societies. There is an emphasis on Australian writing.

Unit content

Module 1: Critiquing contemporary writing practices

Topic 1 Defining aesthetics: Realism, modernity and postcolonial interventions
Topic 2 Other histories
Topic 3 Beyond (post)colonial

Module 2: Writing Australia

Topic 4 Australian literary belongings
Topic 5 Away from the centre: Multicultural Australia
Topic 6 Faking identities: Australia's cultural cringing
Topic 7 Literary dreaming: Indigenous writings

Module 3: Gender, sexuality and difference

Topic 8 Gendered writing
Topic 9 Writing facts: Dealing with fictions
Topic 10 Intertextual pluralities: Queering Virginia Woolf

Module 4: Local realisations: Global implications

Topic 11 Beyond postmodernity

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Location Domestic International
Lismore Session 2 Session 2
Online Session 2 N/A

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 identify and discuss some of the major issues and themes in contemporary writing
2 demonstrate familiarity with some of the major innovations in writing styles and genres
3 identify issues and themes of particular relevance to postcolonial societies
4 recognise the value of different critical/theoretical approaches (for example, feminist, postcolonial and poststructuralist) in analysing contemporary writing
5 demonstrate essay writing forms and practices.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. identify and discuss some of the major issues and themes in contemporary writing
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  2. demonstrate familiarity with some of the major innovations in writing styles and genres
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  3. identify issues and themes of particular relevance to postcolonial societies
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  4. recognise the value of different critical/theoretical approaches (for example, feminist, postcolonial and poststructuralist) in analysing contemporary writing
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  5. demonstrate essay writing forms and practices.
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