EL4060 - Recent Australian Fiction

Credit points:	06
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
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Available to students in the level 4 English Honours program.

Students read some of the most interesting and influential works of Australian fiction and related genres of the last 40 years, with a particular emphasis on recent decades. The subject emphasises the development of an Australian tradition of fictional writing and the progressive blurring of boundaries between the categories of fiction, non-fiction, biography and history. It also looks at the dramatic changes in the literary environment during this time and at political and social influences on literary writing and publication.

Learning Outcomes

• a detailed knowledge of each of the set texts;
• a familiarity with the critical reception of the set texts and the secondary literature surrounding them;
• a sense of the progressive development of an identifiably Australian tradition of writing;
• an understanding of the changes in the generic boundaries of Australian literature;
• an understanding of the influence of social, political and literary developments in the period.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to speak and write logically, clearly and creatively;
• A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning processes and products;
• The ability to learn independently and in a self-directed manner;
• A commitment to lifelong learning and intellectual development.

Prerequisites:	Admission to English Honours Program and EL3025 or EL3037
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	EL4005

Availabilities
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Census Date 06-May-2005
Coordinator:	elsvt
Lecturers:	elpfp, elsvt.
Contact hours:	39 hours
Assessment:	(40%); (20%); (40%).
, , Study Period 0
Census Date 06-May-2005
Coordinator:	elsvt
Lecturers:	elpfp, elsvt.
Contact hours:	39 hours
Assessment:	(40%); (20%); (40%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.