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Please note that this Unit Profile is still in progress. The content below is subject to change.Overview
This unit charts a passage through the 20th century from modernism to post-modernism through its literature. It invites you to explore a selection of texts by a number of significant writers from the 20th century and from a range of national literatures. These texts address a range of issues including post-colonialism, the transition from the psyche to psychology, sexuality, the American Jazz age, Southern post-bellum agonistics, gender, magic realism, existentialism, slavery, racism, and identity. You will also explore the influences this literature has had on contemporary thought.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Admission to CC10 or completion of 72 credit points in CA10, CB94, CC13, CG85 or CC43.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2025
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure - International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback - Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from SUTE Teacher Evaluations
Students indicated that the weekly tutorials provided clear and knowledgeable explanations, challenged students to think critically, and provided valuable feedback.
Continue to run weekly online tutorials that balance short content recaps with guided and practical activities that link to the assessment items, encourage critical thinking, and provide an opportunity to receive timely and valuable feedback.
Feedback from SUTE Student Evaluations
Students noted that the videos needed updating, particularly the assessment instruction videos and other older video content.
Videos will be updated throughout the website.
Feedback from Verbal Student Feedback
Students noted a glossary of unit key terms would be valuable.
Create a unit glossary which outlines key terms.
Feedback from Verbal and SUTE student feedback, and Unit Coordinator reflection
Students and Unit Coordinator found the structure of the unit with individual modules on novels plus weekly study guides and weekly lecture guides overwhelming and disconnected.
Restructure the unit to scaffold the content in alignment with the assessments and streamline the student navigation experience. Less focus on novels as modules, more focus on developing skills in critical thinking, literary analysis, and application of critical theory. Revise text list and update assessments accordingly.
- Analyse and synthesise literary texts through close reading of identified modern literature
- Analyse the historical, cultural and social contexts in which a range of modern texts were produced, and to which they respond
- Construct responses to issues raised by modern literature to demonstrate how literature and culture are interrelated
- Critically evaluate authorial choices in a range of modern texts and convey the effects of those choices through interpretive arguments
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||
| 3 - Essay - 40% | ||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||