ALL228 - The Golden Age: Child, Nature, Empire
Unit details
Year: | 2021 unit information |
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Important Update: | Unit delivery will continue to be provided in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. This may include a mix of on-campus and online activities. To find out how you are impacted, please check your unit sites for announcements and updates. Unit sites open one week prior to the start of each Trimester/Semester. Thank you for your flexibility and commitment to studying with Deakin in 2021. Last updated: 4 June 2021 |
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 |
Cohort rule: | Nil |
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 major historical literary movements such as Realism and Romanticism, through the lens of the Golden Age – a period in which representations of children and childhood reflected broader social and cultural changes from the 18th to early 20th centuries. Through interaction with historical texts and literature for child and adult readers alike, students will study how the writing of the Golden Age shaped ideas about nature, industrialisation, education, morality and citizenship, particularly in relation to young people.
ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
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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
Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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Assessment 1 - Test | 600 words or equivalent | 15% | Week 5 |
Assessment 2 - Essay | 1400 words or equivalent | 35% | Week 8 |
Assessment 3 - 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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