UNSW Handbook Course - Imagining the City

Imagining the City - ENGL1006


	Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
	School: School of English, Media and Performing Arts
	Course Outline: See below
	Campus: Kensington Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
	Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

Introduces students to the discipline of English through the study of narrative, poetic and dramatic forms in literary and cultural modernity. Uses the city as a thematic centre, considers how the city has been described and interpreted, imaginatively constructed, and theorised in the modern period. Includes introduction to close literary analysis and essay writing.

Learning Outcomes

The aim of this course is to introduce students to the complex significance of the idea of the city in western modernity through the detailed study of a range of texts. It will introduce students to some exciting literature from the past two centuries and will enable them to explore thematic and other connections between texts in a rigorous and informed way, most importantly through the essay form. The course will:

Reinforce and extend skills in the close reading of literary and cultural texts
Improve skills in the analysis of texts through the application of appropriate critical and theoretical concepts and terms
Improve information literacy skills
Strengthen students' ability to construct and deploy critical argument in both oral and written forms.

Assessment

Close Reading Exercise - 1000 words - 15%
Class Test (Open Book) - 25%
Major Essay - 40%
Tutorial Preparation and Participation - 20%

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