AustLit

It is important for you to gain knowledge of Australian cultural and literary practice.

Aims

This unit aims to improve your analytical, as well as oral and written communication skills.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you would be able to:

1. Read, understand and critically appreciate the diversity of Australian writing within Australia's literary history;

2. Understand and evaluate the ways in which social values and political and artistic movements inform and impact upon the production of literature;

3. Consider and investigate the dichotomy between mainstream writing and marginalized writing within the Australian context;

4. Consider and investigate the dichotomy between mainstream writing and marginalized writing within the Australian context;

5. Produce a series of writings and an oral seminar of a critical and creative nature based on a comprehensive analysis of the set texts.

Content

This unit provides you with opportunities to read, explore, discuss and critically evaluate a number of Indigenous and non-Indigenous texts written and published in Australia, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Upon completing this unit, you will be able to understand and critically engage with fictional texts pertinent to Australian culture, history and society.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

This unit provides you with opportunities to read, explore, discuss and critically evaluate a number of Indigenous and non-Indigenous texts written and published in Australia, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Upon completing this unit, you will be able to understand and critically engage with fictional texts pertinent to Australian culture, history and society.