ALL708 - Graphic Narratives

Unit details

Year:

2024 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

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.

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment:

1 x 2-hour weekly seminar

Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment:

Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 1 x 2-hour seminar equivalent

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.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
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 the unit can be found on the University Library via ALL708
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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