Poetry: The Versatile Imagination

Subject ENGL40006 (2012)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2012.

Credit Points: 12.50
Level: 4 (Undergraduate)
Dates & Locations:

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2012:

Semester 1, Parkville - Taught on campus.
Pre-teaching Period Start not applicable
Teaching Period not applicable
Assessment Period End not applicable
Last date to Self-Enrol not applicable
Census Date not applicable
Last date to Withdraw without fail not applicable

On Campus



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Time Commitment: Contact Hours: 2
Total Time Commitment:

120

Prerequisites:

Admission to the postgraduate diploma or fourth year honours in English & Theatre Studies.

Corequisites:

None

Recommended Background Knowledge:

None

Non Allowed Subjects:

None

Core Participation Requirements:

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry.

The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the disability support scheme can be found at the Disability Liaison Unit website: http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/disability/

Coordinator

Prof Christopher Wallace-Crabbe

Contact

Chris Wallace-Crabbe

ckwc@unimelb.edu.au

Subject Overview:

This subject explores originality and diversity in poetry of several centuries and different countries, including Australia, with some attention to context and reception. Students who complete this subject should be acquainted with a significant range of poems from the last several hundred years, have developed skills in reading them alertly, as to style, preoccupations, context and originality, and be aware of the interplay between traditions and individual talents.

Objectives:

Students who complete this subject will:

  • be acquainted with a significant range of poems from the last several hundred years;
  • have developed skills in reading them alertly, as to style, preoccupations, context and originality; and
  • be aware of the interplay between traditions and individual talents.
Assessment:

An essay of 5000 words 100% (due at the end of semester). Students are required to attend a minimum of 75% of classes in order to qualify to have their written work assessed. All required written work must be submitted in order to pass the subject.

Prescribed Texts:
  • Norton Anthology of Poetry (Ferguson, Salter &. Stallworthy, eds.), (5th ed)
  • The Puncher & Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry (John Leonard, ed.)
Breadth Options:

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

Fees Information: Subject EFTSL, Level, Discipline & Census Date
Generic Skills:

Students who successfully complete this subject will be able to:

  • read attentively a variety of works;
  • write both critically and lucidly;
  • discuss coherently and patiently; and
  • both think and change their minds.
Related Majors/Minors/Specialisations: English
English and Theatre
English and Theatre Studies
English and Theatre Studies

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