Available in 2024
Course code

ENGL3045

Units

10 units

Level

3000 level

Course handbook

Description

This course centres stories written, told and shared by Aboriginal Australians for the benefit of all readers. Through "listening"/reading to these stories that come from Country, the course employs Marcia Langton's notion of "intersubjectivity" so that students, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, can engage with Aboriginal ways of knowing through stories that share public knowledge about this land. This course uses both Indigenous and non-Indigenous texts to examine the ways in which "Aboriginality" and "whiteness" interact in fictional and non-fictional texts.


Availability2024 Course Timetables

Callaghan

  • Semester 1 - 2024

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Recognise how representations of identity are constructed and used in Australian literature.

2. Identify issues related to "race" relations in Australian literature.

3. Analyse the construction of "whiteness" in Indigenous and non-Indigenous representations.

4. Develop responses to local, national and global ways of telling stories.

5. Critique representations of Indigenous and non-Indigenous relationships in Australian literature.


Content

The course covers:

  • Knowledges shared by First Nation scholars and storytellers
  • Representations of colonisation and post-colonial discourses
  • Theoretical and practical examples of Indigenous knowledges, pedagogies and communication tools
  • Exploration of Indigenous and non-Indigenous constructions of Australian identity
  • Engaging with Aboriginal knowledge about Country in the form of stories and literature

Assessment items

Participation: Participation
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.

Presentation: Oral Presentation
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.

Exhibition / Poster: Research Poster
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.

Journal: Journal entries
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.

Essay: Final essay
Compulsory Requirement: Submit assessment item - Must submit this assessment to pass the course.


Contact hours

Semester 1 - 2024 - Callaghan

Seminar-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 13 week(s) starting in week 1
  • Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 80% of sessions.

Course outline