EL2023 - American Literature

[Offered in even-numbered years]

Credit points:	03
Year:	2010
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Arts & Social Sciences

A selection of American fiction and poetry since 1850.

Learning Outcomes

• to acquire the ability to read the set texts in their cultural and historical contexts;
• to attain detailed knowledge of each of the set texts, their structures and narrative strategies;
• 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 develop an understanding of how 20th century American writing engages with those myths;
• to develop an understanding of the importance of some landmark American texts of the 19th century to the development of national myths;
• to understand recent challenges to the authority of the American literary canon.

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.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

EL3023 EL5023

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 26-Aug-2010
Coord/Lect:	Dr Greg Manning.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 10 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); tutorial attendance and participation (10%); essays (40%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 26-Aug-2010
Coord/Lect:	Dr Greg Manning.
Contact hours:	26 hours lectures 10 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (50%); tutorial attendance and participation (10%); (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.