ALW102 - Writing Spaces: Paradigms and Provocations

Unit details

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Year:2019 unit information
Enrolment modes:Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Trimester 2 Unit Chair:

Briohny Doyle

Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:

This unit is only available to students enrolled in a Faculty of Arts and Education course or D311, D312, D313, D326, D346, D347, D370, D391

Incompatible with:

Nil

Scheduled learning activities - campus:

1 x 1 hour Class per week, 1 x 2 hour Seminar per week

Scheduled learning activities - cloud (online):

Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 1 x 1 hour class per week (recorded video provided), 2 hours per week participation in online discussion and workshopping forums.

Content

This unit extends the work undertaken in ALW101. Key texts occur in the narrative ‘spaces’ of screenplay, creative essay, poetic drama, and extended fiction, but are also framed as social interventions. Through interrelated reading and writing practice, students are encouraged to produce work that traverses creative and analytical modes, and responds to the critical concepts of the unit.

Assessment

Assessment 1 - Writing with Intent (project statement + creative piece) (1600 words) - 40%

Assessment 2 - Theory as Seed (creative piece + exegesis) (2000 words) - 50%

Assessment 3 - Participation & seminar - 10%

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