The Human Story: Heart, Mind and Body in Early Literature

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  At the completion of this subject students 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 textual representations of mind, heart, and body from the medieval to the early modern period
  3. Undertake close reading of the primary medieval and early modern texts, and incorporate close reading as evidence into coherent analytical arguments
  4. Explain, verbally and in written assignments, the relationship between the primary texts and their historical and cultural contexts
  5. Engage in the appropriate application of relevant theoretical concepts to the primary texts studied
  6. Engage in informed critical discussion of unit content with peers and teachers, accommodate others’ points of view, and argue a critical position
  7. Apply understanding of literary techniques to literary study and beyond to other situations 

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

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 Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.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