ALL228 - The Golden Age: Child, Nature, Empire
Unit details
| Year | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Kristine Moruzi |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 1-hour online lecture per week (livestreamed, recordings provided) 1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per week |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | 1 x 1-hour online lecture per week (livestreamed, recordings provided) 1 x 2-hour online seminar or approximately 2-hours of online learning tasks and discussions per week |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Content
This unit introduces students to major historical literary movements such as Realism and Romanticism, through the lens of the Golden Age – a period in which representations of children and childhood reflected broader social and cultural changes from the 18th to early 20th centuries. Through interaction with historical texts and literature for child and adult readers alike, students will study how the writing of the Golden Age shaped ideas about nature, industrialisation, education, morality and citizenship, particularly in relation to young people.
Learning Outcomes
| ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Apply knowledge of literary history, literary modes, and cultural contexts to the analysis of literature for and about young people and their education | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Command a broad range of vocabulary of major literary critical and historical ideas and be able to argue clearly and in a well-structured way, in communication with a variety of audiences | GLO2: Communication |
| ULO3 | Practice a range of generic and bibliographic digital communication technologies and archives to conduct literary research and deliver scholarly reports. Design searches of digital archives for literary historical research and secondary research. Evaluate, organize and share material found in searches. Annotate and correctly reference literary and documentary texts from digital archives, including multimedia resources | GLO3: Digital literacy |
| ULO4 | Demonstrate the close reading, critical analysis and production of scholarly discourses with an application of the relevant historical research. Contextualize (and describe at a conceptual level) different positions on child nature, child-rearing, and education as they have evolved through history. Differentiate the book as both commodity and expressive or meaningful text, and critically assess the contribution of each aspect to culture | GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO5 | Analyse and evaluate philosophical, historical, educational and contemporary approaches to conventions of literature for and about young people and their socialization. Evaluate the implications of digital archives for knowledge transmission, and the implications of historical change for attitudes to children's literature and education | GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO6 | Demonstrate autonomy, judgment and accountability for their own learning through thoughtful revision of assessed critical writing based on tutor feedback | GLO6: Self-management |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1: Written Exercise | 1400 words or equivalent | 35% | Week 5 |
| Assessment 2: Test | 800 words or equivalent | 20% | Week 8 |
| Assessment 3: Essay | 1800 words or equivalent | 45% | Week 12 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for ALL228 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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