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Critical Readings: The Great Works (ENGL90002)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25On Campus (Parkville)
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- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
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Contact information
Semester 1
Email: gmoo@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
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This subject is designed to introduce graduate students to a sequence of essential texts, both primary and secondary. Each of the set readings will be a work that is considered ‘seminal’ in literary studies and texts will range from novels, poems and plays, to critical essays. This course will offer a broad historical range and will combine theoretical approaches with careful close reading. It is designed to offer breadth to students and to help them become familiar with works that are frequently referenced in literary writing. Primary texts to be considered will include The Prince, Candide, Culture and Anarchy, Middlemarch, The Inferno. Critical works to be discussed will encompass Raymond Williams, The Country and the City, Freud, ‘On Dreams’, Barthes, ‘The Death of the Author’, critical writings by George Eliot and Harriet Martineau, along with Auerbach’s Mimesis.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students should have:
- enhanced knowledge of the topic or area of scholarship taught in the module;
- an ability to reflect upon their own research work in relation to the content of the module; and
- enhanced engagement with leading-edge research in Arts today.
Generic skills
The subjects will contribute, through teaching and discussion with academic staff and peers, to developing the skills and capacities identified in the University-defined Graduate Attributes for the PhD, in particular:
- the capacity to contextualise research within an international corpus of specialist knowledge;
- an advanced ability to evaluate and synthesise research-based and scholarly literature; and
- an advanced understanding of key disciplinary and multi-disciplinary norms and perspectives relevant to the field.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
- One 500-word essay proposal (20%), due during the teaching period.
- One 2,000-word essay (80%), due within four weeks of completion of teaching.
- Hurdle: Students are required to attend a minimum of 80% of classes in order to pass this subject.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Grace Moore Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total 12 hours: 6 x 2 hour seminars, delivered fortnightly. Total time commitment 85 hours Teaching period 27 February 2017 to 28 May 2017 Last self-enrol date 10 March 2017 Census date 31 March 2017 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 May 2017 Assessment period ends 23 June 2017 Semester 1 contact information
Email: gmoo@unimelb.edu.au
Time commitment details
85 hours
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Doctor of Philosophy - Arts Course Ph.D.- Arts - Links to additional information
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Additional information for this subject
Subject coordinator approval required
Last updated: 3 November 2022