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123045 PS PS Literary Studies (2025W)

Great Southern Land. Australian Literature

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 10.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 17.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 24.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 31.10. 14:15 - 15:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 07.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 14.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 21.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 28.11. 14:15 - 15:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 05.12. 14:15 - 15:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 12.12. 14:15 - 15:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 19.12. 14:15 - 15:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 09.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 16.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 23.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Friday 30.01. 14:15 - 15:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

This seminar will aim to read Australia from multiple angles, trying to understand the vast diversity of the nation and its at times troubled history. Students will read from a variety of genres including poetry, prose, biography and letters. Student will gain tools essential in communicating their arguments in an academic manner.

Assessment and permitted materials

There will be bi-weekly presentations as well as feedback reports for the other students. Students will write a paper at the end of the semester. Class discussion will be an important factor.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Weekly Feedback & Discussion - 24%
Presentation - 25%
Written paper - 51%

Examination topics

Reading list

Bellanta, Melissa. Larrikins: A History. N.p., 2012. Web. <https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8v21y/larrikins-a-history>.
Boochani, Behrouz, and Omid Tofighian. No Friend but the Mountains : Writing from Manus Prison. Picador, Pan Macmillan Australia, 2018.
Gunn, Jeannie. We of the Never-Never : The Australian Classic. 1. publ. in Arrow, Random House Australia, 1990.
Jefferis, Barbara. The Drover’s Wife (1980). In: Thieme, John. (ed.). The Arnold Anthology of Post-Colonial Literatures in English. London: Arnold, 1996. 265-272.
Kossew, S. (2003). Writing Woman, Writing Place: Contemporary Australian and South African Fiction (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203380680
Lawson, Henry (n.d.). The Drover’s Wife. Web. https://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/DrovWife.shtml
Patterson, Bango. Waltzing Matilda, N.p., n.d. Web. <https://trishansoz.com/trishansoz/waltzing-matilda/waltz.html>.
Pilkington, Doris, et al. Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence. University of Queensland Press, 2002.
Tranter, Bruce, and Jed Donoghue. “Ned Kelly.” Journal of Sociology 46.2 (2010): 187–205. Web. <https://doi.org/10.1177/1440783309355063>.

All literature will be provided on moodle.

Association in the course directory

Studium: BA 612; BEd 046 / 407
Code/Modul: BA10.1; BEd 08a.1, BEd 08b.2
Lehrinhalt: 12-3041

Last modified: Fr 26.09.2025 18:26