ALL228 - The Golden Age in Children's Literature
Unit details
| Year: | 2020 unit information |
|---|---|
| Important Update: | Classes and seminars in Trimester 2/Semester 2, 2020 will be online. Physical distancing for coronavirus (COVID-19) will affect delivery of other learning experiences in this unit. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates one week prior to the start of your trimester or semester. Last updated: 2 June 2020 |
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Warrnambool, Cloud (online) |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Sue Chen |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
| Scheduled learning activities - campus: | 1 x 2-hour seminar per week including recordings on DeakinAir |
| Scheduled learning activities - cloud: | Independent and collaborative learning activities including 1 x 2-hour seminar equivalent per week, recordings on DeakinAir and independent discussions based on weekly exercises |
Content
This unit introduces students to study some of the classics of children's literature. A major focus of this unit is on how changing attitudes to children, and the educational purposes of literature for children, are reflected in a range of texts published between the late fourteenth and early twentieth centuries. As canonical children's literature continues to be read by children today - and influences the contemporary texts produced for them - this unit pays particular attention to the interrelationship between the social, cultural and political values of past and present.
| These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | ||
| ULO1 | Apply knowledge of literary history, literary modes, and cultural contexts to the analysis of literature for and about young people and their education | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Command a broad range of vocabulary of major literary critical and historical ideas and be able to argue clearly and in a well-structured way, in communication with a variety of audiences | GLO2: Communication |
| ULO3 | Practice a range of generic and bibliographic digital communication technologies and archives to conduct literary research and deliver scholarly reports. Design searches of digital archives for literary historical research and secondary research. Evaluate, organize and share material found in searches. Annotate and correctly reference literary and documentary texts from digital archives, including multimedia resources | GLO3: Digital literacy |
| ULO4 | Demonstrate the close reading, critical analysis and production of scholarly discourses with an application of the relevant historical research. Contextualize (and describe at a conceptual level) different positions on child nature, child-rearing, and education as they have evolved through history. Differentiate the book as both commodity and expressive or meaningful text, and critically assess the contribution of each aspect to culture | GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO5 | Analyse and evaluate philosophical, historical, educational and contemporary approaches to conventions of literature for and about young people and their socialization. Evaluate the implications of digital archives for knowledge transmission, and the implications of historical change for attitudes to children's literature and education | GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO6 | Demonstrate autonomy, judgment and accountability for their own learning through thoughtful revision of assessed critical writing based on tutor feedback | GLO6: Self-management |
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
Assessment
Trimester 1:| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1 (Individual) - Test | 600 words or equivalent | 15% | Week 5 |
| Assessment 2 (Individual) - Essay | 1400 words or equivalent | 35% | Week 8 |
| Assessment 3 (Individual) - Essay | 2000 words or equivalent | 50% | Week 11 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: ALL228 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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