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AMU2832

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 22 December 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 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.

Monash University

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

School of Arts and Social Sciences, Malaysia

Coordinator(s)

Associate Professor Andrew Ng Hock Soon

Offered

Malaysia

  • First semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit introduces contemporary debates surrounding the concept of post-colonialism and its attending notions including orientalism, diaspora, hybridity, cosmopolitanism, nationalism and third-world sexuality. This unit is introduced in line with the aim of globalising of the University's curriculum and in making learning relevant to the learners. The objectives, apart from creating an awareness among students with regards to their postcolonial subjectivities, also opens up a critical space with which they can engage, debate, interpret and realign. Through interaction with literature, it is hoped that students will translate what they read to how they experience their subjectivities.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the unit, students should be able to:

  1. Critically appreciate their post-colonial subjectivities through an involved interaction with literature and contemporary theories of post-colonialism; this will be evidenced from their participation during tutorial sessions;
  2. Understand and critically interrogate vital concepts of subjectivity such as hybridity, diaspora, exile, orientalism and post-colonialism through their engagement with text and theory so as to vitalise their awareness of the contemporary and globalised world within which they live;
  3. Make informed notions of, and debate on the vicissitudes of post-colonialism and its complementary concepts in both their tutorial interactions and their assignments and exams.

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.

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Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Andrew Ng Hock Soon

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

Writing

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of first-year Arts units.

Prohibitions

ATS2832