EL2008:04
Instant Anglo-Saxon
Townsville, Cairns
Prerequisites: At least 6 units of EL subjects including 3 units of literature subjects or HI2440 or AR2304
Inadmissable Subject Combination: EL2024
13 lectures, 13 tutorials, 13 hours workshops. Second semester.
Available to students with a background in English studies.
Staff: Mr J Gray, Dr C Taylor.
The literature reflects a concern with heroism: the prose account of a King martyred in Viking raids, a major secular poem on heroism and the depiction of Christ as hero in the major religious poem from the period. In the workshops students evaluate recent multimedia materials, software and WWW sites. Their reports are networked.
The subject attracts steady participation from students of archaeology, history, law, languages or visual arts.
Learning Objectives:
- to broaden and intensify the literary-critical skills and understanding attained by students at earlier levels, particularly where essay-writing and extra-literary issues are concerned;
- to acquire an ability to read and translate introductory texts from the Anglo-Saxon period;
- to acquire an ability to read Old English poetic texts and to demonstrate an understanding of the characteristics of Old English poetry;
- to achieve some knowledge of the artistic, religious, historical and material cultural contexts in which the literature was produced;
- to develop an ability to recognise the Modern English reflexes of Old English linguistic forms.
Assessment by written work (40%); class work (20%); a three-hour end-of-semester examination (40%).