Undergraduate - UnitATS2409 - Writing lives: Autobiography and historical fiction

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Literary Studies
Offered	Not offered in 2015
Coordinator(s)	Dr Patrizia Sambuco

Synopsis

The unit consists of three interrelated modules. The first focuses on the construction of the self, covering key theoretical debates on autobiography and self-invention. In the second module, we focus on biography and its relationship with evidence, documents and truth. In the third module we explore the relationship between women's life writing fictional recreation and historical interpretation and reflect on the process and implications involved in writing women's history.

Outcomes

On completion of the unit students will be able to:

have an understanding of the theoretical debate regarding autobiography and biography
develop a deeper understanding of specific examples of world literature
analyse women's writing lives with particular reference to historical interpretations and autobiography

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Patrizia Sambuco

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Literary studies
Italian studies

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of first-year Arts units.