ALL708 - Graphic Narratives
Unit details
Year | 2025 unit information |
---|---|
Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
Credit point(s): | 1 |
EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Paul Venzo |
Prerequisite: | Nil |
Corequisite: | Nil |
Incompatible with: | ALL408, ALL608 |
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per week |
Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | 1 x 2-hour online seminar 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
Students will study graphic narratives from an aesthetic and semiotic perspective, considering the ways in which visual and verbal text interact to produce various kinds of meaning. Nineteenth and early twentieth-century illustrated books are discussed in relation to their artistic and literary contexts, leading to a focus on recent and contemporary graphic narratives. Students will be given the option of producing a graphic narrative and will receive instruction in this form of writing.
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 | Analyse graphic narratives in relation to their ideologies and visual/verbal strategies | GLO4: Critical thinking |
ULO2 | Develop a clear, coherent and sustained argument | GLO2: Communication |
ULO3 | Demonstrate digital literacy be search planning and selection of a primary and secondary research sources using a prepared template to document search design and evaluation of results, and to cite and share research accurately | GLO3: Digital literacy |
ULO4 | Deploy analytical strategies appropriate to literary studies and semiotics | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
ULO5 | Demonstrate autonomy, judgement and accountability for their own learning based on tutor feedback | GLO6: Self-management |
Assessment
Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
---|---|---|---|
Assessment 1: Essay | 2500 words or equivalent | 50% | Week 5 |
Assessment 2: Graphic narrative or essay | 2500 words or equivalent | 50% | Week 9 |
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 ALL708 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.
Unit Fee Information
Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study and their study discipline, and your study load.
Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
Use the Fee estimator to see course and unit fees applicable to your course and type of place.
For further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods visit our Current Students website.