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AMU3499

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 22 December 2024

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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 explores the various twentieth century theories on authorship and their relationship to the practices of reading. Topics range from the Romantic notion of authorship, to the authorship of autobiographies and films.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit students should:

  1. Be able to critically evaluate the range of practices employed in authorial criticism;
  2. Understand how theories of authorship have changed in the movement from Romanticism to structuralism;
  3. Comprehend the difference between the subject writing and the empirical author;
  4. Have a working knowledge of the relationship between film style and authorial expression;
  5. Be able to identify the key features of auteur theory and understand how it is used as a means of classification in film theory.

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

Communication
Writing

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of second-year Arts units.

Prohibitions

ATS2499, ATS3499