ALL102 - From Horror to Romance: Genre and Its Revisions
Unit details
Year: | 2019 unit information |
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Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Trimester 2 Unit Chair: | Maria Takolander |
Trimester 3 Unit Chair: | Maria Takolander |
Prerequisite: | Nil |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | ALL402 |
Scheduled learning activities - campus: | Trimester 2: 1 x 1 hour class per week, 1 x 2 hour seminar per week Trimester 3: 1 x 1 hour Cloud Class per week, 1 x 2 hour seminar (face to face on campus) per week |
Scheduled learning activities - cloud (online): | Trimester 2: Online independent and collaborative learning activities including: 1 x 1-hour class per week (recordings provided), 2-hour online seminar per week equivalent Trimester 3: Online independent and collaborative learning activities including: 1 x 1-hour class per week (recordings provided), 2-hour online seminar per week equivalent |
Content
This unit invites students to analyse popular genres such as horror, crime, autobiography, science fiction, and romance. Storytelling is a fundamental means through which humans make sense of the world, and genres provide common templates for story-telling and meaning-making. This unit will investigate the origins of genres and their revision across time, highlighting how genre stories are involved in cultural struggles over meaning. The unit will take a historical and comparative approach, but it will also introduce students to relevant interdisciplinary fields such as gender studies and media studies. Encompassing novels, films, poetry, comics, and interactive digital narratives, set texts include Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Kelly Sue DeConnick’s and Valentine de Landro’s Bitch Planet, and The Fullbright Company’s Gone Home. Students will write their own piece of genre fiction, as well as undertaking a multimedia presentation and a critical essay exploring genre and its revisions.
Assessment
Assessment 1 (Individual) – Presentation (800 words or equivalent) – 20%
Assessment 2 (Individual) – Exercise (1600 words or equivalent) – 40%
Assessment 3 (Individual) – Essay (1600 words or equivalent) – 40%
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