Language and Literature subjects are offered by the Language and Literature Division in the School of Humanities and Information Studies Education.
Most subjects are available to students in the BEd (Primary), BSocSc (InfoMgt) and the BEd (Secondary) (all streams except Environmental Science) courses.
Language and Literature A and a range of Language and Literature B, C and. D subjects are offered.
Students specialising in Language and Literature will normally take Language and Literature A, followed by Language and Literature B1 and at least one other Language and Literature B subject, followed by three Language and Literature C subjects. Language and Literature D subjects are also available in the fourth year.
Language and Literature A has no prerequisites.
The prerequisite for Language and Literature B subjects is Language and Literature A, or approved equivalent. The prerequisite for Language and Literature C subjects is credit of 33.3 points in Language and Literature B subjects including Language and Literature Bl, or approved equivalent.
The prerequisite for Method of Teaching: English in the BEd (Secondary) course is Language and Literature B1 with one other Language and Literature B subject, or approved equivalent.
Studies for a Major in English
Year 1 Language and Literature A 25.0 points Year 2 Language and Literature B1,
22.2 points plus one of B8
to B18, 11.1 points 33.3 points Year 3 Two of C21 to C29,
11.1 points each plus one of C8
to C29, 11.1 points 33.3 points Year 1 and Year 2 constitute a sub-major in English and permit a student in the
BEd (Secondary) course to study Method of Teaching: English.
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Year 2: Up to three additional subjects from B8 to B18 may be taken. These may be studied over more than one year if desired.
Year 3: Up to three additional subjects from C8 to C29 may be taken. These may be studied over more than one year if desired.
Year 4: Normally students will take Language and Literature DI and two of D21 to D29, but any of the D subjects may be taken individually. (Note: Year 4 BEd (Secondary) students may enrol in subjects B8 to B18 or C8 to C29 where they have the required prerequisites and the subjects are not taught during block teaching rounds.)
Attendance
Attendance at all Language and Literature classes is obligatory unless other arrangements are made.
Language Skills
An acceptable level of language skills must be reached for a student to pass in any Language and Literature subject.
Availability of Subjects
Not all Language and Literature elective subjects will be offered in any one year. Notification will be given before the end of the preceding year of any that will definitely not be running. Students are also advised to check with the Division that an elective subject in which they are enrolled has attracted a large enough number to run before buying the texts for that subject.
Language and Literature B Subjects
A normal Year 2 course of study consists of the core subject Language and Literature B1 (22.2 points), plus one of the elective subjects Language and Literature B8 to B18 (11.1 points). Students may take up to three of these elective subjects as independent subjects, and enrol in up to two of these subjects without prior or concurrent enrolment in Language and Literature B1. No student will be permitted to enrol in more than two of the elective subjects unless he or she is enrolled in, or has passed, Language and Literature B1. Not all of the elective subjects will be offered in any one year. BEd (Secondary) students are restricted to a maximum of 133.3 points of Language and Literature B, C and D subjects in their course.
Language and Literature C Subjects
A normal Year 3 course of study will consist of three of the subjects Language and Literature C8 to C29 (11.1 points each), at least two of which must be from the group Language and Literature C21 to C29. In addition, students may take up three other C-level subjects. Not all of the optional C-level subjects will be offered in any one year. No student is permitted to enrol in more than one of the subjects Language and Literature C8 to C18 unless he or she is enrolled in, or has passed, two of the subjects Language and Literature C21 to C29.
Language and Literature D Subjects
A normal Year 4 course of study will consist of Language and Literature D1 (11.1 points), plus two of the subjects Language and Literature D21 to D29 (11.1 points). However, any one of these subjects may be taken separately. Not all of the Language and Literature subjects D21 to D29 will be offered in any one year.
481-144 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE A Credit points: 25.0
Staff: Brian Symes.
Contact:: literature approximately 180 hours;
language - 90 hours; writing 45 hours. A 1-hour lecture and two 1-hour tutorial classes each week.
(Two semesters.)
Content:Three inter-related areas: literature studies, language studies and personal writing, designed to acquaint students with aspects of their spoken and written culture, and to encourage exploration of the writing process.
Assessment: A written exercise on poetry, of approximately 750 words (16.7 per cent); an essay on fiction, of approximately 1200 words (16.7 percent);
an essay on drama, of approximately 1200 words (16.7 per cent); a 3-hour examination (50 per cent).
Students must also satisfactorily complete a folio of personal writing of approximately four items, and one or two exercises in Language Studies. Attendance at classes is required, unless other arrangements are made. Results will be graded.
Prescribed texts: Drama Aeschylus Agamemnon in The Oresteia (trans. Fagles) Penguin Harmondsworth 1979. Hibberd J A Stretch of the Imagination Currency Press Sydney 1984. Shakespeare W King Lear Signet New York 1970. Fiction Austen J Emma Penguin Harmondsworth 1980. Dostoyevsky F Crime and Punishment World's Classics Oxford 1980. Vonnegut K Slaughterhouse-5 Paladin London 1989. Waugh E Decline and Fall Penguin Harmondsworth 1969.
Woolf V To the Lighthouse Panther St Albans (Herts) 1977. Language Studies Emmitt M and. Pollock J
176 The University of Melbourne Prospectus and Handbook 1992 — Volume Four Language and Learning Oxford University Press
Oxford 1991. Poetry Eliot T S Collected Poems Faber London 1974. Kazin A (ed.) The Portable Blake Penguin Harmondsworth 1987.
481-158 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE A25: ITALIAN
Credit points: 25.0 Staff: Anna Filipi.
Contact:. Two hours of lectures/seminars and three hours of workshops each week. (Two semesters.) Content: A practical introduction to the Italian Language and culture. Through systematic and progressive study methods, students are expected to develop receptive and productive skills that will allow them basic communication in Italian. Emphasis will be placed on elementary vocabulary, expressions in common use, and common idiomatic expressions.
Assessment: Assignments and oral and written tests totalling up to 7500 words. Attendance at classes is required unless other arrangements are made. Results will be graded.
481-274 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE B1 Credit points: 22.2
Staff: Ray Misson.
Prerequisite: Language and Literature A, or approved equivalent.
Contact:. A 1-hour lecture and a 1 1(2-hour tutorial each week. (Two semesters.)
Content:Three inter-related areas: literature studies (Australian and Renaissance Literature), language studies (Australian English, syntax, phonology), and personal writing.
Assessment: Two essays of approximately 1500 words (30 per cent each); two essays or exercises of approximately 1000 words (20 per cent each), all on the Literature section of the course. Students must also satisfactorily complete two short language exercises and a writing folio of approximately 1500 words. Attendance at classes is required unless other arrangements are made. Results will be graded.
Prescribed texts: Australian Literature Carey P Bliss Picador London 1982. Gilbert K (ed.) Inside Black Australia Penguin Ringwood 1988. Hazzard S The Transit of Venus Penguin Harmondsworth 1981.
Jolley E Miss Peabody's Inheritance Queensland University Press St Lucia 1983. Malouf D Johnno Penguin Ringwood 1976. Maris H and Borg S Women of the Sun Currency Sydney 1983. White PA Fringe of Leaves Penguin Ringwood 1977. Renaissance Literature Donne J Poems (J Hayward, ed.) Penguin Harmondsworth 1985. Milton J Paradise Lost (C Ricks, ed.) Penguin Harmondsworth 1989.
Shakespeare W Hamlet Signet New York 1963.
Shakespeare W The Sonnets Signet New York 1964.
Shakespeare W Henry IV Part One Signet New York 1965.
481-282 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE B8:
WOMEN AS READERS AND WRITERS Note: This subject is not intended exclusively for female students. Male students are encouraged to enrol.
Credit points: 11.1 Staff: Ray Misson.
Prerequisite: Language and Literature A, or approved equivalent. Credit will not be granted for both this subject and Language and Literature C8.
Contact:. A 1 1/2-hour seminar each week, except during BEd (Secondary) block periods of School Experience. (Two semesters.)
Content: A study of a range of texts by 19th and 20th century women writers and an introduction to some of the major concerns of recent feminist literary theory.
Assessment: An essay of approximately 1000 words (30 per cent); the choice of a second 1000-word essay or a class paper (30 per cent); an essay of approximately 1500 words (40 per cent). Attendance at classes is required unless other arrangements are made. Results will be graded.
Prescribed texts: Atwood M The Handmaid's Tale Virago London 1988. Austen J Pride and Prejudice Penguin Harmondsworth 1978. Bronte C Jane Eyre Oxford World's Classics Oxford 1981. De Groen A The Rivers of China Currency Press Sydney 1988.
Garner H Postcards from Surfers McPhee Gribble/
Penguin Ringwood 1985. Grenville K Lilian's Story Allen and Unwin Sydney 1986. Lessing D The Golden Notebook Grafton London 1973. Woolf V A Room of One's Own Grafton London 1977. Students may also be required to read other literary texts as a basis for the work on criticism. Examples of feminist literary criticism will be provided for study.
481-283 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE B9:
APPROACHES TO POETRY This subject is not offered in 1992.
481-284 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE B10: LANGUAGE AND THE COMPUTER Credit points: 11.1
Staff: Kathryn Feil.
Prerequisite: Language and Literature A, or approved equivalent. Credit will not be granted for both this subject and Language and Literature C10.
Contact:. Normally a 2-hour lecture/seminar/student- led discussion each week; arrangements will be made to accommodate School Experience. (First semester.)
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computers, and of computer literacy in the classroom.
Assessment Class participation (10 per cent); class projects equivalent to approximately 1000 words (20 per cent); individual projects equivalent to approximately 1500 words (30 per cent); a written essay of approximately 2000 words (40 per cent).
Attendance at classes is required unless other arrangements are made. Results will be graded.
481-285 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE B11: THE ENGLISH NOVEL
Credit points: 11.1 Staff: Brian Symes.
Prerequisite: Language and Literature A, or approved equivalent. Credit will not be granted for both this subject and. Language and Literature C11.
Contact:. Normally a 1 1t2-hour tutorial each week.
(Two semesters.)
Content: A study of selected major novels of the 19th and 20th centuries in which important lines of development of the English novelistic tradition may be discerned. Topics include: the rise of the novel, the reading public and novelistic convention, the novel and narrative techniques, myth and the novel, the novel as art form, and style and the novel.
Assessment:Two essays of approximately 1750 words each (100 per cent): the first a critical study of one of the prescribed novels (which a student may choose to replace with the presentation of a class paper on that work), and the second a discussion of a more general aspect of the novel, entailing a consideration of three or more of the prescribed texts. With the approval of the relevant staff member, students may elect to present a single,major essay of approximately 4000 words, treating a significant general aspect of the novel, and entailing a discussion of at least three of the prescribed texts. Attendance at classes is required unless other arrangements are made. Results will be graded.
Prescribed texts: Burgess A A Clockwork Orange Penguin Harmondsworth 1980. Conrad J Victory Penguin Harmondsworth 1963. Eliot G Middlemarch Penguin Harmondsworth 1985. Hardy T The Mayor of Casterbridge Penguin Harmondsworth 1968. James H The Portrait of a Lady Penguin Harmondsworth 1986. Joyce J A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Grafton London 1986. Lawrence D H The Rainbow Penguin Harmondsworth 1989.
481-286 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE 812: MODERN DRAMA
Credit points: IL1 Staff: Ray Misson.
Prerequisite: Language and Literature A, or approved equivalent. Credit will not be granted for
both this subject and Language and Literature C12.
Contact:. A 1 1/2-hour seminar/workshop each week, except during block periods of School Experience.
(Two semesters.)
Content: An examination of a number of plays chosen as representative both of the important kinds of drama and the variety written during the past one hundred years.
Assessment: Two essays of approximately 1000 words each (30 per cent each); a project equivalent to approximately 1500 words (40 per cent). Attendance at classes is required unless other arrangements are made. Results will be graded.
Prescribed texts: Beckett S Waiting for Godot Faber London 1965. Bond E Lear Methuen Student Editions London 1984, Brecht B Mother Courage and her Children Methuen Student Editions London 1984. Chekhov A Uncle Vanya Penguin Harmondsworth 1954. Churchill C Serious Money Methuen London 1987. Ibsen H Hedda Gabler Penguin Harmondsworth 1968. O'Neill E Long Day's Journey into Night Jonathan Cape London 1966.
Sewell S The Blind Giant is Dancing Currency Press Sydney 1985. StrindbergA The Father Eyre Methuen London 1976. Williams T A Streetcar Named Desire Methuen Student Editions London 1984. Williamson D Emerald City Currency Press Sydney 1987.
481-287 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE B13: AMERICAN LITERATURE
Credit points: 11.1 Staff: Helen Tippett.
Prerequisite: Language and Literature A, or approved equivalent. Credit will not be granted for both this subject and Language and Literature C13.
Contact:. A 1 1/2-hour seminar/discussion group each week, except during block periods of School Experience. (Two semesters.)
Content: An exploration of aspects of American Literature, with some reference to notions of `the American Dream' (and its effects on Australian culture), although the course will not be limited to this emphasis. Students will be allowed personal choice of one or two extra texts, if they wish, by negotiation with the lecturer in charge.
Assessment: Contributions to class discussion, including leading a group discussion, and class preparation, which may include written work of approximately 500 words (30 per cent); an exercise of approximately 1000 words (20 per cent) on poetry;
an assignment of approximately 1500 words on one of the listed novels (30 per cent); an assignment of approximately 1000 words on a text of the student's choice (20 per cent). Alternative assessment arrangements may be negotiated with students.
Attendance at classes is required unless other arrangements are made. Results will be graded.
178 The University of Melbourne Prospectus and Handbook 1992 — Volume Four Prescribed texts: Fitzgerald F S The Great Gatsby
Penguin Harmondsworth 1969. Melville H Moby Dick Penguin Harmondsworth 1972. Moore G The Penguin Book of American Verse revised edition Penguin Harmondsworth 1989. Twain M The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Penguin Harmondsworth 1985.
481-289 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE B15: APPROACHES TO WRITING Credit points: 11.1
Staff: Helen Tippett.
Prerequisite: Language and Literature A, or approved equivalent. Credit will not be granted for both this subject and Language and Literature C15.
Contact:. A 1 1/2-hour lecture/seminar/workshop/
discussion group each week, except during block periods of School Experience. ( Two semesters.) Content: A study of the factors involved in the writing process: motivation, organisation, editing, audience, style, consideration of types of writing, appropriateness and the development of repertoire.
Students will be expected to develop a folio of writing.
A study of children's writing will be included.
Assessment: A folio of writing consisting of approximately four pieces or 5000 words, as individually negotiated (90 per cent) or the folio and a journal (80 per cent and 10 per cent); class preparation and participation (10 percent). Students must also complete practical writing exercises set in class, which will include writing pieces of approximately 500 words between classes, and other written work including an informal journal, the nature of which will be individually negotiated. Attendance at classes is required unless other arrangements are made. Results will be graded.
481-290 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE B16: LANGUAGE AND LEARNING Credit points: 11.1
Staff: Kristina Love.
Prerequisites: Language and Literature A, or approved equivalent. Credit will not be granted for both this subject and. Language and Literature C16 or Language in Education 1.
Contact:. A 2-hour seminar/discussion/project work each week. (Second semester.)
Content: A study of the way language in each of its modes is acquired and developed. Topics include:
the acquisition of mother tongue language, from infant pre-speech to the later stages of development in adolescence; theories about writing and reading development; theories about the relationship between language and thought, language and culture, and language and gender.
Assessment: A major project of approximately 2500
words (80 per cent); a class presentation equivalent to approximately 1000 words (20 per cent).
Attendance at classes is required unless other arrangements are made. Results will be graded.
Prescribed text: Painter C Learning the Mother Tongue Deakin University Press Geelong 1985.
481-291 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE B18: READING IN THE SECONDARY CLASSROOM
Credit points: 11.1 Staff: Cheryl Semple.
Prerequisite: Language and Literature A, or approved equivalent. Credit will not be granted for both this subject and Language and Literature C18 or Language in Education 2.
Contact:. A 2-hour seminar each week. (First semester.)
Content: A survey of reading theory and practice with particular emphasis on the work of the psycholinguists. Appropriate teaching strategies, resources and evaluation will be analysed.
Assessment: A written exercise of approximately 500 words (l0 per cent); three written exercises of approximately 1000 words each (30 per cent each).
Attendance at classes is required unless other arrangements are made. Results will be graded.
Prescribed texts: Ministry of Education Victoria The English Language Framework P-101988. Curriculum Frameworks Guidelines for Years 7-10 English Ministry of Education Victoria 1988.
481-374 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE C8:
WOMEN AS READERS AND WRITERS Credit points: 11.1
Staff: Ray Misson.
Prerequisites: 33.3 points in Group 2 Language and Literature subjects, including Language and Literature B1, or approved equivalent. This subject may be taken only by students who are currently enrolled in, or who have completed, one of Language and Literature C21 to C29,or an approved equivalent.
A student cannot take more than one of Language and Literature C8 to C18 unless he/she is enrolled in, or has completed two of Language and Literature C20 to C29. Credit will not be granted for both this subject and Language and Literature B8.
Contact: As for Language and Literature B8. (Two semesters.)
Content: As for Language and Literature B8.
Assessment: As for Language and Literature B8.
Prescribed texts: As for Language and Literature B8.
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481-375 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE C9:APPROACHES TO POETRY This subject is not offered in 1992.
481-376 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE C10: LANGUAGE AND THE COMPUTER Credit points: IL1
Staff: Kathryn Feil.
Prerequisites: 333 points in Group 2 Language and Literature subjects, including Language and Literature B1, or approved equivalent. This subject may be taken only by students who are currently enrolled in, or who have completed, one of Language and Literature C21 to C29, or an approved equivalent.
A student cannot take more than one of Language and Literature C8 to C18 unless he/she is enrolled in, or has completed, two of Language and Literature C20 to C29. Credit will not be granted for both this subject and Language and Literature B10.
Contact: As for Language and Literature B10. (First semester.)
Content: As for Language and Literature B 10.
Assessment As for Language and Literature B10.
481-377 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Cll: THE ENGLISH NOVEL
Credit points: 11.1 Staff: Brian Symes.
Prerequisites: 333 points in Group 2 Language and Literature subjects, including Language and Literature B1, or approved equivalent. This subject may be taken only by students who are currently enrolled in, or who have completed, one of Language and Literature C21 to C29, or an approved equivalent.
A student cannot take more than one of Language and Literature C8 to C18 unless he/she is enrolled in, or has completed, two of Language and Literature C20 to C29. Credit will not be granted for both this subject and Language and Literature B11.
Contact As for Language and Literature B11. ( Two semesters.)
Content: As for Language and Literature B11.
Assessment As for Language and Literature B11.
Prescribed texts: As for Language and Literature B11.
481-378 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE C12: MODERN DRAMA
Credit points: 11.1 Staff: Ray Nilsson.
Prerequisites: 333 points in Group 2 Language and Literature subjects, including Language and
Literature B1, or approved equivalent. This subject may be taken only by students who are currently enrolled in, or who have completed, one of Language and Literature C21 to C29, or an approved equivalent.
A student cannot take more than one of Language and Literature C8 to C18 unless he/she is enrolled in, or has completed, two of Language and Literature C20 to C29. Credit will not be granted for both this subject and Language and Literature B12.
Contact: As for Language and Literature B12. (Two semesters.)
Content: As for Language and Literature B12.
Assessment: As for Language and Literature B12.
Prescribed texts: As for Language and Literature B12.
481-379 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE C13: AMERICAN LITERATURE
Credit points: 11.1 Staff: Helen Tippett.
Prerequisites: 33.3 points in Group 2 Language and Literature subjects, including Language and Literature B1, or approved equivalent. This subject may be taken only by students who are currently enrolled in, or who have completed, one of Language and Literature C21 to C29, or an approved equivalent.
A student cannot take more than one of Language and Literature C8 to C18 unless he/she is enrolled in, or has completed, two of Language and Literature C20 to C29. Credit will not be granted for both this subject and Language and Literature B13.
Contact: As for Language and Literature B13. (Two semesters.)
Content: As for Language and Literature B13.
Assessment: As for Language and Literature B13.
Prescribed texts: As for Language and Literature B13.
481-381 LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE C15: APPROACHES TO WRITING Credit points: 11.1
Staff: Helen Tippett.
Prerequisites: 33.3 points in Group 2 Language and Literature subjects, including Language and Literature B1, or approved equivalent. This subject may be taken only by students who are currently enrolled in, or who have completed, one of Language and Literature C21 toC29,oranapprovedequivalent.
A student cannot take more than one of Language and Literature C8 to C18 unless he/she is enrolled in, or has completed, two of Language and Literature C20 to C29. Credit will not be granted for both this subject and Language and Literature B15.
Contact: As for Language and Literature B15.
(Two semesters.)