Pre-requisites

None.

Co-requisites

None.

Learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, the student will be able to:

• Describe a Christian worldview and other worldviews

• Identify key ideas and devices in literature

• Apply a Christian worldview perspective in the examination of literature

• Prepare academic writings to accepted conventions

Unit Description

This unit explores the ways in which literature historically and presently shapes and reflects society. It explores the formation and attributes of a Christian worldview and how these compare and contrast with other dominant worldviews. It encourages students to engage with texts through the reading of short stories and poems and a chosen classic novel. Students explore the different facets of literary analysis: mood, matter, style, plot, use of metaphor, point of view, and archetypes as literary devices/forms. The influence of worldview and context on the composition and interpretation of a literary text is discussed and how a Christian worldview can be outworked. Students are given instruction on, and are required to demonstrate, the fundamentals and conventions of good academic writing.

Topics

• What is literature and the contribution of literature to the Western world
• What is worldview?
• The Christian worldview and the problem of dualism
• Other worldviews - modernism, existentialism, postmodernism, consumerism
• How and why Christians should read literature
• Literary analysis - engaging with the text, the importance of context
• Analysing literature from a Christian worldview
• Literary devices: genre, plot, setting, mood, tone, archetypes, style, metaphor, point of view etc
• Authorial intent and reader-response theory
• Genres: Drama, poetry, fiction novel
• Elements of sound academic writing

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Unit offerings

Face to face: Semester 1, 2025 and Semester 1, 2026 (Every Year, Semester 1)

Please note

The Unit Offerings listed above are a guide only and the timetable for any year is the final authority. The College may vary offerings based on demand, regulatory requirements, continual improvement processes or other conditions.

This unit may be available in different modes of delivery i.e. online and face-to-face as listed above. The unit content will not differ between these modes of delivery. There will possibly be a difference in the schedule and/or the prescribed assessment tasks, however both will cover and assess the same content.