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Literature: Modern and Contemporary

Undergraduate | MAQ-ENGX1002 | 2021

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Study method
100% online
Assessments
100% online
Entry requirements
No ATAR needed,
No prior study
Duration
18 weeks

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Literature: Modern and Contemporary

About this subject

  • On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

    1. Demonstrate critical reading habits, interpretive analysis, research, and effective communication, with particular application to the field of English studies.
    2. Understand and be able to describe some of the key features of a range of texts from the modern to the contemporary.
    3. Apply understanding of literary techniques to literary study and beyond to other situations.
    4. Engage in informed critical discussion on unit content with peers and teachers, entertain others' points of view, and to argue a critical position.

Entry requirements

No entry requirements

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 subjects offered by Macquarie University. Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in subjects through OUA will be withdrawn.

Study load

0.125 EFTSL
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