European Modernism

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2012:

2.5 contact hours/week, 6 additional hours/week. Total of 8.5 hours per week.

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Students who have completed the following subject are not allowed to enrol in this subject.

For the purposes of considering requests 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 for this entry.

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European modernism refers to a wide range of experimental and avant-garde trends in literature and arts at the end of the 19th and early 20th century and has proven a major influence on current (Western) literature, film and the arts. This course introduces students to key themes of modernist literature, theatre, and film in Europe. The course familiarizes students with key writers and thinkers of this period and will address the ways in which they provoked their readers/viewers through new and complex forms and styles. Major themes comprise the crisis of representation, the representation of cosmopolitanism and urban cultural dislocation, consciousness and memory, and sexuality. (Students undertaking this subject will be expected to regularly access an internet-enabled computer.)

Students who successfully complete this subject will

• have an understanding of a range of experimental and avant-garde trends in literature and arts at the end of the 19th and early 20th century;
• appreciate the various ways in which modernist writers and artists challenged their European audiences;
• comprehend the ways in which the representation of cosmopolitanism, urban cultural dislocation, consciousness, memory, and sexuality shaped modernist discourses;
• develop an understanding of the major conceptual debates concerning the meaning of modernity in Europe.

A team project consisting of a 500 word written assignment and 10 minute oral presentation 25% (due during semester period; equivalent to 1,000 words), a mid-semester written assignment (equivalent to 1,000 words) 25%, and final essay (2,000 words due at the end of semester) 50%. This subject has the following hurdle requirements: * Regular participation in tutorials is required with a minimum of 75% attendance. * All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass this subject. Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per day and in-class tasks missed without approval will not be marked.

This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses:

• Bachelor of Biomedicine
• Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Environments
• Bachelor of Music
• Bachelor of Science
• Bachelor of Engineering

You should visit learn more about breadth subjects and read the breadth requirements for your degree, and should discuss your choice with your student adviser, before deciding on your subjects.

• have an increased understanding of social and cross-cultural diversity.
• develop critical self-awareness and shape and strengthen persuasive arguments.
• communicate arguments and ideas effectively and articulately, both in writing and to others in speech.