11050 APPRECIATING LITERATURE

Year	No.	Offer	Mode	Description			Cred. Pts
98	11050 	S2  	X 	APPRECIATING LITERATURE   	1.00

Contents

• Staffing
• Rationale
• Synopsis
• Objectives
• Topics
• Texts
• Student Workload
• Assessment Details

STAFFING:

RATIONALE:

This course aims to encourage and stimulate students' interest in, and
appreciation of a variety of types of literature. Part of the  process
of learning to enjoy and appreciate literature involves the ability to
successfully evaluate a writer's work.

SYNOPSIS:

Successful  evaluation  involves  the  development  of  the  following
skills:

1 identification of the writer's purpose in presenting his/her work;

2  the  ability  to relate issues in the set texts to the  society  in
which each text is set;

3 exploration of the role played by characterisation;

4 examination of the role played by the genre chosen by the writer.

OBJECTIVES:

On successful completion of this unit students should
demonstrate the following skills:

1. accurate identification of the writer's purpose in each of the
   set texts;
   
2. the ability to relate issues in the set texts to the society
   in which each text is set;
   
3. an exploration of characterisation in the texts;
   
4. an awareness of the role played by the genre of each of the
   texts.
   

TOPICS:

 Description                                                    Weighting(%)

Society's ethics versus individual values

Social pressure on the individual - the legacy of the
American South

What is success?  The American dream turned nightmare.

The lighter side of life and love

The larrikin

TEXT and MATERIALS to be PURCHASED:

"The Glass Menagerie" in SWEET BIRD OF YOUTH AND OTHER PLAYS,
Tennessee Williams, Penguin

DEATH OF A SALESMAN, Arthur Miller, Penguin

VERY GOOD JEEVES P G Wodehouse, Vintage

JONAH, Louis Stone, Angus and Robertson

STUDENT WORKLOAD REQUIREMENTS:

	ACTIVITY				HOURS
Directed Study                                	80
Private Study                                 	55
Assessments                                   	30

ASSESSMENT DETAILS:

No  *F/S Marks     Due        Description                              Wtg(%)    LBL WWW
1   S    10.00     WK 2      MODULE 1 PART A MINOR ASSIGNMENT 1        10.00     Y   N
2   S    10.00     WK 4      MODULE 1 PART B MINOR ASSIGNMENT 2        10.00     Y   N
3   S    10.00     WK 6      MODULE 1 PART C MINOR ASSIGNMENT 3        10.00     Y   N
4   S    15.00     WK 8      MAJOR ASSIGNMENT 1                        25.00     Y   N
5   S    10.00     WK 11     MODULE 2 PART D MINOR ASSIGNMENT 4        10.00     Y   N
6   S    10.00     WK 14     MODULE 2 PART E MINOR ASSIGNMENT 5        10.00     Y   N
7   S    15.00     WK 16     MAJOR ASSIGNMENT 2                        25.00     Y   N