Critical Approaches to Literature

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  At the completion of this subject students will be able to:

  1. Demonstrate an advanced understanding of a range of critical approaches to literature, shown through being able to identify, understand, and apply different questions and concepts to the interpretation of texts and to the creation of meaning
  2. Demonstrate an understanding of what is at stake in the way literature is understood and consumed by being able to approach and critique texts from a range of perspectives
  3. Demonstrate a well-developed capacity for rigorous and independent thinking, shown through being able to compare different points of view, and to generate new ideas, both in spoken and written contexts
  4. Demonstrate advanced research skills, shown through being able to locate, interpret, and, critically analyse published scholarship in English literary studies
  5. Demonstrate advanced skills in critical thinking and synthesis, shown through combining research findings and critical practice to support ideas about literary expression, textual meaning, and the social, aesthetic, and cognitive functions of literature
  6. Demonstrate advanced skills in persuasive argumentation, shown through being able to organise and present information efficiently and meaningfully
  7. Demonstrate advanced oral communication and academic writing skills shown through the production of reasoned, well-informed argument in written work and class participation

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• Description

• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About Macquarie University

Entry requirements

Prior study

You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:

one of

• MAQ-ENGX1001-Literature: Medieval to Modern
• MAQ-ENGX1002-Literature: Modern and Contemporary

Equivalent subjects

You should not enrol in this subject if you have successfully completed any of the following subject(s) because they are considered academically equivalent:

• MAQ-ENGX3050 (Not currently available)

Others

ENGX1001 or ENGX1002 or ENGX120; and 20cp in ENGX units at 2000 level or above

Additional requirements

• Other requirements - Students who have an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion under Macquarie University's Academic Progression Policy are not permitted to enrol in OUA units offered by Macquarie University. Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.

Study load

0.125 EFTSL

This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

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