EL2801 - Progress and Anxiety: The Victorian Age

Credit points:	03
Year:	2013
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Arts & Social Sciences

The Victorian Age in British Literature (1837-1901, approximately) is an immensely rich one, particularly where the novel is concerned. But it is also very diverse, as writers of the period came to employ different approaches to the many social and intellectual issues that confronted them. Here we see the origins of what we understand as the modern world: an industrialized, urbanized, and globalized sphere, in which science, secularism, democracy, mass education and mass communication were beginning profoundly to affect society and the literature which sought to reflect it. Above all there was change: perhaps at a rate even faster than we are familiar with today. This subject will encompass some of this dynamic intellectual arena, in fiction and non-fiction alike.

Learning Outcomes

• 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 attain a full and close understanding of the set texts;
• to develop an accurate critical and literary- historical understanding of nineteenth-century English literature;
• to develop an understanding of the relationship of literature and society in Victorian Britain.

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.

Assumed Knowledge:	To undertake this subject, students must have successfully completed 12 credit points (four subjects) of level 1 study at tertiary level
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	EL2001 EL3001 EL3801 EL5801

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 28-Mar-2013
Coord/Lect:	Dr Greg Manning.
Contact hours:	13 hours lectures 24 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (30%); tutorial attendance and participation (20%); essays (50%).
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 29-Aug-2013
Coord/Lect:	Dr Greg Manning.
Contact hours:	36 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (30%); tutorial attendance and participation (20%); essays (50%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 29-Aug-2013
Coord/Lect:	Dr Greg Manning.
Contact hours:	36 hours tutorials
Assessment:	end of semester exam (30%); tutorial attendance and participation (20%); essays (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.