ATS2325 - Cross-cultural literary encounters - 2017

The unit introduces students to texts from other cultures and/or to texts that thematise cross-cultural encounters. In this way, students will engage with literary works that introduce readers to other cultures' ways of life; raise issues specific to particular cultural contexts; use language in culturally-specific ways and/or take cross-cultural encounters as a thematic focus of the text.

Upon successful completion of the unit students will be able to:

1. demonstrate advanced understanding of the development of literary texts across different professional, cultural, historical and/or linguistic contexts, by engaging with literary works from or about other cultures;
2. produce high level critical and/or creative written practice, in or about literary genres such as fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction, by critically evaluating literary works from other cultural contexts;
3. apply advanced critical reading in the context of the field of literary studies, by engaging with theoretical approaches such as postcolonial theory and world literature theory;
4. evaluate critically a range of approaches to literary and critical analysis, emphasising those that are attuned to reading literatures of other cultures.

Within semester assessment: 100%

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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Professor Sue Kossew

Literary studies

One first-year Arts unit and one Gateway unit in Literary studies