EL5040 - Strangers in the South Pacific

[Offered in even-numbered years]

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
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The South Seas have been a particular object for Eurocentric imaginative scrutiny ever since the beginning of the 18th century. The South Sea Bubble, the Cook voyages and the Bligh mutiny were early instances; later writers like Melville, Stevenson and Gauguin, saw the area in quite different, explicitly romantic terms; in the 20th century imaginative perceptions have changed all over again. The South Seas are, all at once it seems, a dark continent awaiting civilisation and exploitation, an escapist idyll and a mirror in which Western writers have seen their own disappointments.

Learning Outcomes

• to achieve a reasonable understanding of the patterns of Eurocentric imaginative responses to the South Pacific area (loosely defined) since the period of discovery and colonisation;
• 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.

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 graduate or postgraduate program
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	EL2040 and HI3040 and EL3040

Availabilities
, , Study Period 2
Census Date 08-Sep-2006
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Richard Lansdown.
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.