EL5001 - Women in the Nineteenth Century Novel

Credit points:	06
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
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The 19th century novel is perhaps the most widely known and admired English literary manifestation. In it, one question in particular was debated with unusual consistency of purpose: the moral needs and status of women in modern society. In the fiction written between 1800 and 1915 we recognise the advent of the independent woman, seen not as historians or social theorists might see her, in abstract terms, but in a series of living individuals.

Learning Outcomes

• to attain a full and close understanding of particular set texts;
• 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 reach a fuller understanding of what realist fiction involves and what the chosen novelists understood by it;
• to develop an accurate critical and literary- historical understanding of the English novel between about 1800 and 1915.

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:	Acceptance into graduate or postgraduate program
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	EL2001 and EL3001

Availabilities
, , Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2006
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Richard Lansdown.
Contact hours:	12 hours 24 hours
Assessment:	(30%); (20%); (50%).
, , Study Period 1
Census Date 24-Mar-2006
Coord/Lect:	elgrm.
Contact hours:	12 hours 24 hours
Assessment:	(30%); (20%); (50%).

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.