ALW225 - Designing Fictions
Unit details
Year: | 2020 unit information |
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Important Update: | Classes and seminars in Trimester 2/Semester 2, 2020 will be online. Physical distancing for coronavirus (COVID-19) will affect delivery of other learning experiences in this unit. Please check your unit sites for announcements and updates one week prior to the start of your trimester or semester. Last updated: 2 June 2020 |
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: | Trimester 1: Cassandra Atherton Trimester 3: Andrew Dean |
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, D330, D346, D347, D370, D385, D391 |
Incompatible with: | ALW325 |
Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. |
Scheduled learning activities - campus: | 1 x 2-hour seminar per week |
Scheduled learning activities - cloud: | Online independent and collaborative learning activities including: 1 x 2-hour online seminar per week in the form of response to seminar based discussion boards |
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.
These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | ||
ULO1 | Identify the differences between literary fiction and genre fiction | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO2 | Practise and apply the key components of writing | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO5: Problem solving |
ULO3 | Explain and apply current standards of grammar and language usage | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO3: Digital literacy |
ULO4 | Demonstrate critical thinking and composition abilities through giving and receiving constructive critique | GLO2: Communication GLO5: Problem solving |
ULO5 | Develop short writing projects and design creative writing strategies | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO5: Problem solving |
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
Assessment
Trimester 1:Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
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Assessment 1 (Individual) - Report on unit readings | 1200 words or equivalent | 30% | Week 9 |
Assessment 2 (Individual) - Original Work or series of Works of Fiction | 2,000 words or equivalent | 50% | Examination period |
Assessment 3 (Individual) - Seminar responses to students' work and participation | 800 words or equivalent | 20% | Ongoing |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: ALW225 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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