| Credit |
6 points |
| Availability |
not available in 2010 |
| Old unit code |
020.202 |
| Content |
Contemporary European individualism and individual identity are the product of a long history of social and cultural development. Factors such as sex, morality and power are the building blocks of concepts of individual identity which have developed over centuries. Individual freedoms that we now take for granted can be traced back through a history of conflict, suffering and tragedy, documented in literature and culture since ancient times. The stories of the everyday man and woman, of the hero, the heroine, the martyr, the outsider and the foreigner make up the core of the European literary experience. In this unit important aspects of the concept of the European individual are studied in their origins and development, with a focus on concepts of tolerance, openness and pluralism as the defining values for modern Europeans in dealing with questions of sex, morality and power. Students are introduced to classic literary works from the European canon, such as Shakespeare's Hamlet, Goethe's Werther and Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, as well as to contemporary works of literature and film. Theoretical works provide a social-psychological perspective for the study of literary texts and contemporary film in their historical and social context. |
| Assessment |
This comprises an assignment, essays, tutorial participation and/or examination.
Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a bachelor's pass degree student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete their course. |
| Unit Co-ordinator(s) |
Chris Bond |
| Location |
UWA (Crawley) |
| Mode |
on-campus |
| Unit Rules |
| Prerequisites: 24 points of Level 1 units in any Arts discipline |
Contact hours—lecture/workshops: 20 hrs; tutorials: 10 hrs (over 10 weeks)
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