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ENGL3703: Australian Literary Ecologies
2024 unit information
This unit explores how literature has produced, reflected and challenged the idea of Australia. Examining a diverse range of historical and contemporary texts including work by First Nations and diasporic writers, students will engage critically and creatively with Australian literature as a complex ecology of ideas that influences how we interact with and understand concepts such as place, environment, nature, community, and nation.
Unit details and rules
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | English and Writing |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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12 credit points at 2000 level in ENGL |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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ASLT2620 |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Describe key scholarly debates and cultural conversations about historical and contemporary literary representations of Australian place, environment, community and non-human natures
- LO2. Evaluate theoretical, historical and cultural approaches to Australian literature, including regional, national, transnational and decolonial frameworks
- LO3. Argue a critically-informed position on key concepts related to the study of Australian literature
- LO4. Analyse the formal, aesthetic and ethical implications of literary representations of place, environment, community and non-human natures
- LO5. Synthesise ideas using literary studies skills including close reading, critical analysis and contextual analysis
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