European Literature and Languages: Historical Perspectives
Undergraduate
UNE-LANG303 2025Course information for 2025 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 16 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 16 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025,
- 23 June 2025
- Price from
- $2,220
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
European Literature and Languages: Historical Perspectives
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, students will be able to:
- apply and demonstrate advanced level language skills to interpret texts in the target language across a range of genres and contexts;
- demonstrate and apply extended knowledge of the stylistic features of the target language and how they vary across genres and historical sociocultural contexts;
- apply extended knowledge of the historically embedded social and cultural issues relevant to the target language; and
- demonstrate advanced communication skills in presenting arguments in a manner appropriate to the content, including in the target language where appropriate.
- Topics will be available to enrolled students in the subjects Learning Management System site approximately one week prior to the commencement of the teaching period.
This subject enables you to extend your proficiency in a European language (French, or Italian) by examining literature and the arts from a comparative, global and critically diverse perspective.
Through research-led teaching, the close reading of texts will enable you to advance your second language skills, by deepening your knowledge of the historical development of the language and its stylistic features.
The critical analysis of important texts across history enables you to develop in-depth knowledge of the key writers and themes, along with the literary, philosophical, and political movements associated with world literatures.
You will also gain greater understanding of how literary culture shaped and was shaped by colonial movements, its impact on the colonised, and postcolonial subjectivities.
To ensure the topic you enrol in is appropriate for your Program of Study, you must apply to the unit coordinator for permission to enrol at least three weeks prior to the commencement of the relevant trimester.
2025 topics
- Trimester 1
- French:
- Modernity Through French Literature and Visual Culture
- There are no Italian topics available in LANG303 in Trimester 1.
- Trimester 2
- Italian:
- The Crowns of Italian Literature: Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio
- There are no French topics available in LANG303 in Trimester 2.
- Trimester 1
Assessment 1: French Discipline: Essay in French and Textual Analysis in French or English. 2500 words. Relates to Learning Outcomes 1-4;
Assessment 1: Italian Discipline: Essay and Textual Analysis. 2500 words. Relates to Learning Outcomes 1-4;
Assessment 2: French Discipline: Take Home Exam: Open-book essay written in French or English. 2000 words (equivalent). Relates to Learning Outcomes 1-4;
Assessment 2: Italian Discipline: Structured Online Participation: 600 words (equivalent). Relates to Learning Outcomes 1-4;
Assessment 3: Italian Discipline: Take Home Exam: 2000 words (equivalent). It is mandatory to pass the Take Home Exam in order to pass the unit. Relates to Learning Outcomes 1-4.- Assessment 1: French Discipline: Essay in French and Textual Analysis in French or English. 2500 words (50%)
- Assessment 2: French Discipline: Take Home Exam: Open-book essay written in French or English. 2000 words (equivalent) (50%)
- Assessment 1: Italian Discipline: Essay and Textual Analysis. 2500 words. (50%)
- Assessment 2: Italian Discipline: Structured Online Participation: 600 words (equivalent). (10%)
- Assessment 3: Italian Discipline: Take Home Exam: 2000 words (equivalent). It is mandatory to pass the Take Home Exam in order to pass the unit (40%)
For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- UNE-MDL-DIP-2025 - Diploma in Modern Languages
Others
Candidature in the Diploma in Modern Languages.
This is a repeatable unit. However, topics are not repeatable and the unit cannot be undertaken more than once in any one teaching period.
Enrolment is subject to unit coordinator approval.
Students must apply to the unit coordinator for permission to enrol at least three weeks prior to the commencement of the relevant Trimester.
Additional requirements
- Equipment requirements - Headphones or speakers (required to listen to lectures and other media). Headset, including microphone (highly recommended). Webcam (may be required for participation in virtual classrooms and/or media presentations).
- Software requirements - It is essential for students to have reliable internet access in order to participate in and complete your units, regardless of whether they contain an on campus attendance or intensive school component. For additional information please visit UNE Hardware Requirements: https://www.une.edu.au/current-students/support/it-services/hardware
- Other requirements -
Textbook requirements:
Textbook information is not available until approximately 8 weeks prior to the commencement of the Teaching period.
Students are expected to purchase prescribed material.
Textbook requirements may vary from one teaching period to the next.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Undergraduate
UNE-MDL-DIP