Undergraduate - UnitATS2422 - Literature and romanticism

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	School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics
Offered	Clayton Second semester 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Associate Professor Franz-Josef Dieters

Synopsis

This unit will introduce students to the new forms of representation and ways of thinking that emerged in Europe in association with the Romantic movement. It will focus in particular on Romantic reconceptualisations of literature, history and nationhood, God and nature, art and the self. Romanticism will be considered both as a revolutionary period in European history and as a continuing strand of Western culture. Writers discussed will come from various European traditions.

Outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will have:

Developed a general understanding of the new ways of thinking and writing about history and nationhood, God and nature, art and the self that were articulated by European philosophers and writers associated with the Romantic movement;
Gained a more in-depth knowledge of the work of at least two Romantic philosophers and/or writers from different parts of Europe;
Become more aware of the ongoing legacy of European Romanticism in contemporary Western culture;
Continued the development of their skills in the areas of research, textual analysis and interpretation, and communication, both oral and written.

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)

Associate Professor Franz-Josef Dieters

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

Literary studies

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of first-year Arts units. It is highly recommended that students only take this unit after they have completed a gateway unit in Literary studies .