Human to Posthuman: 20th Century Literature

About this subject

• What you'll learn

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

  1. Demonstrate critical and analytical reading strategies, interpretive analysis, scholarly research, and effective communication, with particular application to the field of modernist and postmodernist studies in English
  2. Identify, evaluate and apply principles of modernism and postmodernism to different literary modes, narrative and non-narrative
  3. Display creative thinking and construct cohesive arguments
  4. Consider how historical and theoretical propositions of modernism have shaped the reception and reproduction of 20th-century art more broadly
  5. Engage in informed critical discussion on unit content with peers and teachers, consider and assess others’ points of view, and to argue a critical position

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• 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-ENGX1002-Literature: Modern and Contemporary

• MAQ-ENGX120-Approaches to English Literature (no longer available)

Others

ENGX1002 or ENGX102 and 20cp at 2000 level

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 Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.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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