ALL705 - Vision and Revision: Short Stories Now
Unit details
| Year | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Online Trimester 3: Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Andrew Dean Trimester 3: David McCooey |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | 1 x 2-hour online seminar per week or approximately 2-hours of online learning tasks and discussions per week |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Content
This unit studies contemporary short stories from Australia and around theworld to examine how 'revision'-of stories, characters, voices, genres, andforms-underlies creative 'vision'. With an emphasis on formal innovation and the digital publishing environment, revisionism is explored as a centralmethodology of creative practice. Texts studied include Tom Cho's LookWho's Morphing, Ceridwen Dovey's Only the Animals, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, Ryan O'Neill's The Weight of a Human Heart,Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad, and electronic collection ofshort stories. Students will write diverse assessment pieces designed foran online portfolio.
Learning Outcomes
| ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Articulate how revisionism forms a central methodology of creative practice in relation to not only the contemporary short story but also other global cultural forms | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO3: Digital literacy GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO2 | Articulate how contemporary innovation in the short story is a response to contemporary developments in the sociocultural and publishing worlds (such as postmodernism and the digital age. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO3: Digital literacy GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO3 | Communicate knowledge about literary revisionism using various critical and creative forms of writing, including forms appropriate to publication | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO3: Digital literacy GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO4 | Relate constructively to others by providing and receiving feedback on writing drafts and by communicating on the unit site | GLO7: Teamwork |
| ULO5 | Articulate how the knowledge acquired in this unit creates professional understanding of the contemporary global publishing environment | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1: Exercises | 1500 words or equivalent | 30% | Week 5 |
| Assessment 2: Essay | 1500 words or equivalent | 30% | Week 10 |
| Assessment 3: Exercises | 2000 words or equivalent | 40% | Week 11 |
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 ALL705 can be found via the University Library.
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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