| Credit |
6 points |
| Availability |
Semester 1 |
| Old unit code |
110.223 |
| Content |
This is principally a cultural acquisition unit intended to introduce students to the rich texture of medieval Italy, its political and social structures and main aspects of the secular and religious life as documented by the Divine Comedy of the Florentine poet, philosopher and statesman Dante Alighieri between the late 1200s and the first decades of the 1300s. Students engage with this major text of Italian literature, concentrating on the Inferno, both in its original form and also through a contemporary English translation. Assimilation of the primary source material is a key feature of this unit and students are expected to react and think critically on a variety of moral, literary, philosophical and cultural issues that shaped Dante's thought and his very world and which, in turn, the poet reflected in his own creative and original way through the various narrative techniques and stylistic and literary devices adopted by him as an integral part of his Christian epic. Primary sources in English translation are made available to students. |
| Assessment |
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) |
Associate Professor Luciano Pinto |
| Location |
UWA (Crawley) |
| Mode |
on-campus |
| Unit Rules |
| Prerequisites: 24 points of Level 1 units in any Arts discipline |
Contact hours—lectures: 1 hr per week; tutorials: 1 hr per week (for 13 weeks)
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- The availability of units in Semester 1, 2, etc. was correct at the time of going to press but may be subject to change.
- Assistance with study skills, including English language skills, is available free of charge from Student Services for all enrolled students (see http://www.studentservices.uwa.edu.au/ss/learning). Student Services location: Second Floor, South Wing, Guild Village; telephone: 6488 2423.
- Books and other materials wherever listed may be subject to change. Book lists relating to 'Preliminary Reading', 'Recommended Reading' and 'Textbooks' are, in most cases, available at the University Co-operative Bookshop (from early January) and appropriate administrative offices for students to consult. For first-year units the Bookshop will endeavour to make available photocopies of book lists for individual units. Books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in paperback.
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