| Semester 2, 2020 On-campus Springfield | |
| Short Description: | Australian Stories |
| Units : | 1 |
| Faculty or Section : | Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts |
| School or Department : | School of Humanities & Communication |
| Student contribution band : | Band 1 |
| ASCED code : | 091523 - Literature |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
Staffing
Examiner:
Other requisites
Students will require access to e-mail and have internet access to UConnect for this course.
Rationale
Australian Stories offers students knowledge content and critical skills that are valued in many fields. It is the second course in the English Literature major and is offered in the interdisciplinary majors for Australian Studies, Popular Culture and Writing & Society. The course is also regularly recommended to students in Education programs. The skills in reading, interpretation, research, and essay writing taught in this course remain useful throughout a student鈥檚 program of study and beyond, as attributes in postgraduate study, general employability, and lifelong learning.
Synopsis
This course serves as an introduction to Australian stories and the role they play in the formation of cultural identities. It examines the heterogeneity of Australian culture through its stories and will direct particular attention to the way in which narrative reimagines social, cultural and political values.
Objectives
On completion of this course students should be able to demonstrate:
- apply disciplinary concepts and cultural literacy in explaining the relationship between form and theme in selected Australian narratives as the product of particular social, cultural and political formations;
- employ basic written disciplinary communication skills by expressing an analytical argument in written form using appropriate disciplinary conventions;
- demonstrate academic and professional literacy skills by competently using a vocabulary of critical terms to apply to the reading of texts;
- utilise learned discipline-based information literacy in identifying appropriate secondary sources for use in researching a response to an essay task;
- demonstrate ethical research and inquiry skills by comprehending and applying norms and practices of academic integrity;
- consistently provide evidence of reflective practice through participation in course discussion and by improving performance in the second research essay based on feedback from the first.
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Creating and critiquing the legend | 20.00 |
| 2. | The Australian dream | 20.00 |
| 3. | Multiculturalism and migration | 20.00 |
| 4. | Indigenous perspectives | 20.00 |
| 5. | Genre in Australia | 20.00 |
Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed
ALL textbooks and materials available to be purchased can be sourced from (unless otherwise stated). (https://omnia.usq.edu.au/textbooks/?year=2020&sem=02&subject1=ENL1001)
Please for alternative purchase options from USQ Bookshop. (https://omnia.usq.edu.au/info/contact/)
Cleven, V 2001, Bitin' Back, 精东传媒app of Queensland Press, St Lucia.
Lawler, R 2012, Summer of the seventeenth doll, Currency Press, Melbourne.
Lawrence, R (dir) 2001, Lantana, Palace Films.
Le, N 2009, The Boat, Vintage, London.
Lette, K & Cary G 2012, Puberty Blues, Vintage, Melbourne.
Malouf, D 2008, Johnno, Penguin, Melbourne.
Tsiolkas, C 2005, Dead Europe, Atlantic, London.
Weir, P (dir) 1975, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Greater Union Films.
Other texts will be available online on 精东传媒app Desk and are required to be accessed.
Reference materials
Reference materials are materials that, if accessed by students, may improve their knowledge and understanding of the material in the course and enrich their learning experience.
Bennett, A & Royle, N 2016, An introduction to literature, criticism and theory: key critical concepts, 5th edn, Pearson Longman, New York.
Eagleton, T 2008, Literary theory: an introduction, 2nd edn, Oxford, Blackwell.
Murfin, R & Ray, SM 2018, The Bedford glossary of critical and literary terms, 4th edn, Bedford/St Martins, Boston.
Webby, E 2000, The Cambridge companion to Australian Literature, Cambridge 精东传媒app Press, Cambridge.
Student workload expectations
| Activity | Hours |
|---|---|
| Directed 精东传媒app | 39.00 |
| Independent 精东传媒app | 126.00 |
Assessment details
| Description | Marks out of | Wtg (%) | Due Date | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ESSAY 1 | 100 | 30 | 24 Aug 2020 | |
| ESSAY 2 | 100 | 30 | 21 Sep 2020 | |
| PARTICIPATION | 100 | 10 | 26 Oct 2020 | (see note 1) |
| TAKE HOME TEST | 100 | 30 | 26 Oct 2020 |
Notes
- On-campus students are assessed based on class attendance and participation; online students are assessed based on forum participation. Participation includes advanced preparation (completing the set reading) and actively contributing to discussion.
Important assessment information
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Attendance requirements:
Students must attend and complete the requirements of the Workplace Health and Safety training program for this course where required.
External and Online:
There are no attendance requirements for this course. However, it is the students鈥� responsibility to study all material provided to them or required to be accessed by them to maximise their chance of meeting the objectives of the course and to be informed of course-related activities and administration.
On-campus
It is the students鈥� responsibility to attend and participate appropriately in all activities (such as lectures, tutorials, laboratories and practical work) scheduled for them, and to study all material provided to them or required to be accessed by them to maximise their chance of meeting the objectives -
Requirements for students to complete each assessment item satisfactorily:
To satisfactorily complete an individual assessment item a student must achieve at least 50% of the marks. -
Penalties for late submission of required work:
Students should refer to the Assessment Procedure (point 4.2.4) -
Requirements for student to be awarded a passing grade in the course:
To be assured of receiving a passing grade a student must achieve at least 50% of the total weighted marks available for the course. -
Method used to combine assessment results to attain final grade:
The final grades for students will be assigned on the basis of the aggregate of the weighted marks obtained for each of the summative assessment items in the course. -
Examination information:
There is no examination for this course. -
Examination period when Deferred/Supplementary examinations will be held:
There is no examination in this course, there will be no deferred or supplementary examinations. -
精东传媒app Student Policies:
Students should read the USQ policies: Definitions, Assessment and Student Academic Misconduct to avoid actions which might contravene 精东传媒app policies and practices. These policies can be found at .
Other requirements
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Students can expect that questions in assessment items in this course may draw upon knowledge and skills that they can reasonably be expected to have acquired before enrolling in the course. This includes knowledge contained in pre-requisite courses and appropriate communication, information literacy, analytical, critical thinking, problem solving or numeracy skills. Students who do not possess such knowledge and skills should not expect to achieve the same grades as those students who do possess them.
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Assignments should be typed and must be double spaced. The new MLA style must be used in documenting all assessment items. See 精东传媒app Desk for details.
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Tape recording of tutorials and lectures is prohibited except in special cases at the discretion of the examiner