Pre-requisites

EN503 Literature and Worldview

Co-requisites

None.

Learning Outcomes

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

• Critically compare and analyse Australian literature against concepts of identity and representation

• Engage, agitate, and apply a Christian worldview to examine views, values, actions, identity and culture

• Analyse key aspects of Australian literary devices, their purpose and effect.

• Refine skills in critical comparative writing to draw conclusions, present findings, and validate arguments

Unit Description

This unit examines how Australian texts reflect various Australian contexts. It considers how literature expounds perspectives and experiences – empathetically, politically, historically, and narratively - in ways that contribute to our growing understanding of the Australian Identity. With such a diverse cultural platform to consider alongside critical literary analysis, students are guided to view each facet of exploration with a Christian worldview.

Trigger warning: Students enrolling in this course are asked to critically evaluate some literary works depicting colonisation, conflict and disharmony.

Topics

With a selection of prescribed readings, the unit will study each topic in-depth for a 2-week period.
- Analysing the complexities in discerning and compartmentalising the Australian Literature genre by asking and answering: What is national identity? Where does heritage begin?
- Extrapolating binaries of text and context: Comparatively evaluating narrative and literary reflections of experience (text) and their relationship with circumstance (context) that contributes to an Australian national identity.
- Experience and literature: critiquing where narratives of heritage(s), and individual experience inform views and values discernible in literature.
- Dissecting the deeper psychoanalysis of identity, belonging and relationships in Australian texts
- Constructing purpose and direction in the findings: Applying scriptural and spiritual identity to literary script and accounts of identity.
- Investigating the past and hypothesising the future: elucidating the unique fluidity of the Australian literary genre in its cultural footprint.

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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.