ENGLISH 219 Nineteenth Century Literature - Course Outlines

Course Prescription

Considers a range of literature from the nineteenth century – poetry, fiction and drama – as regards its treatment of growing up in the period. Issues covered include the recognition of childhood as a special state, the establishment of an individual's gender and sexual identity and the opportunities and constraints afforded by the changing social hierarchy and religious belief systems.

Course Overview

It was this period's most influential poet, William Wordsworth, who wrote that ‘The Child is Father of the Man’. The theme of attaining maturity is important, so that the gains and losses experienced in leaving childhood behind are central to many works. Moreover, the development of sexual and gender identity was a compelling concern of nineteenth-century writers, in ways that are both familiar and unfamiliar. In all the works studied, the social context of the individual's development has a major impact, and we think about how far those conditions have and have not changed since the nineteenth century.

This course also gives you the chance to study classic writers you've very likely heard of, or seen adapted for the screen, but may not have read before - such as Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens and Thomas Hardy.

Course Requirements

Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in English Restriction: ENGLISH 104

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

Apply close-reading skills to works in different genres, written over a period of about 100 years. (Capability 1.1 and 1.2)
Understand the origins of our contemporary ideas about childhood and maturation in the thinking and writing of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. (Capability 2.1 and 2.3)
Develop an understanding of how individuals' lives over the period studied were constrained by their social context, including the effects of gender and class. (Capability 3.1)
Articulate and discuss ideas in group work and essay writing. (Capability 4.1 and 4.2)
Build students' capacity to become lifelong learners / readers through exposure to appealing but challenging texts. (Capability 5.2)
Learn from texts which reflect a period which is both historically distant from the present and crucial to the world we now live in. (Capability 5.2)

Assessments

Assessment Type	Percentage	Classification
Coursework	15%	Individual Coursework
Essay	25%	Individual Coursework
Assignments	10%	Individual Coursework
Final Exam	50%	Individual Examination
4 types	100%

Next offered

S2 2021

Learning Resources

`The poetry for the course, selections from the work of William Blake, William Wordsworth and Emily Dickinson, will be taught from a course anthology. This is available at the University Bookshop. The other texts for the course, listed below, are also available at the University Bookshop:

Jane Austen, Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (Penguin Classics)
Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Classics)
Henry James, Washington Square (Oxford World’s Classics)
Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays (Oxford)
Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Penguin Classics)

It is acceptable to use any other editions of the texts that you may possess.

Workload Expectations

This course is a standard 15 point course and students are expected to spend 10 hours per week involved in each 15 point course that they are enrolled in.

For this course, you can expect 2 hours of lectures, a 1 hour tutorial, 4 hours of reading and thinking about the content and 3 hours of work on assignments and/or test preparation.

Digital Resources

Course materials are made available in a learning and collaboration tool called Canvas which also includes reading lists and lecture recordings (where available).

Please remember that the recording of any class on a personal device requires the permission of the instructor.

Academic Integrity

The University of Auckland will not tolerate cheating, or assisting others to cheat, and views cheating in coursework as a serious academic offence. The work that a student submits for grading must be the student's own work, reflecting their learning. Where work from other sources is used, it must be properly acknowledged and referenced. This requirement also applies to sources on the internet. A student's assessed work may be reviewed against online source material using computerised detection mechanisms.

Inclusive Learning

All students are asked to discuss any impairment related requirements privately, face to face and/or in written form with the course coordinator, lecturer or tutor.

Student Disability Services also provides support for students with a wide range of impairments, both visible and invisible, to succeed and excel at the University. For more information and contact details, please visit the Student Disability Services’ website at http://disability.auckland.ac.nz

Well-being always comes first
We all go through tough times during the semester, or see our friends struggling. There is lots of help out there - for more information, look at this Canvas page (https://canvas.auckland.ac.nz/courses/33894), which has links to various support services in the University and the wider community.

Special Circumstances

If your ability to complete assessed coursework is affected by illness or other personal circumstances outside of your control, contact a member of teaching staff as soon as possible before the assessment is due.

If your personal circumstances significantly affect your performance, or preparation, for an exam or eligible written test, refer to the University’s aegrotat or compassionate consideration page: https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/academic-information/exams-and-final-results/during-exams/aegrotat-and-compassionate-consideration.html.

This should be done as soon as possible and no later than seven days after the affected test or exam date.

Student Feedback

At the end of every semester students will be invited to give feedback on the course and teaching through a tool called SET or Qualtrics. The lecturers and course co-ordinators will consider all feedback and respond with summaries and actions.

Your feedback helps teachers to improve the course and its delivery for future students.

Class Representatives in each class can take feedback to the department and faculty staff-student consultative committees.

Student Charter and Responsibilities

The Student Charter assumes and acknowledges that students are active participants in the learning process and that they have responsibilities to the institution and the international community of scholars. The University expects that students will act at all times in a way that demonstrates respect for the rights of other students and staff so that the learning environment is both safe and productive. For further information visit Student Charter (https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/students/forms-policies-and-guidelines/student-policies-and-guidelines/student-charter.html).

Disclaimer

Elements of this outline may be subject to change. The latest information about the course will be available for enrolled students in Canvas.

In this course you may be asked to submit your coursework assessments digitally. The University reserves the right to conduct scheduled tests and examinations for this course online or through the use of computers or other electronic devices. Where tests or examinations are conducted online remote invigilation arrangements may be used. The final decision on the completion mode for a test or examination, and remote invigilation arrangements where applicable, will be advised to students at least 10 days prior to the scheduled date of the assessment, or in the case of an examination when the examination timetable is published.

Capability 1:	Disciplinary Knowledge and Practice
Capability 2:	Critical Thinking
Capability 3:	Solution Seeking
Capability 4:	Communication and Engagement
Capability 5:	Independence and Integrity

ENGLISH 219 : Nineteenth Century Literature

Arts

2020 Semester Two (1205) (15 POINTS)