ALW225 - Designing Fictions
Unit details
Year | 2018 unit information |
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Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit chair: | Cassandra Atherton |
Prerequisite: | ALW101 and ALW102 |
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: | ALW325 |
Contact hours: | Campus: 1 x 2 hour Seminar per week Cloud (online): Learning experiences are via CloudDeakin |
Content
This unit explores technical and discursive aspects of fiction-writing, with reference to highly regarded texts. The unit involves much exploration of creativity and experimentation; improvisation and revision. Students must be prepared to do considerable practical work in and out of seminars. Each student will submit a complete original work or works of fiction. This work may be presented in a number of forms, including short story, hypertext, fiction for installation or exhibition, for example.
Assessment
Report, 30%
Original work or series of works of fiction, 50%
Seminar responses and class participation, 20%
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