ALL722 - Texts for Young Adults

Unit details

Enrolment modes:	(X)
Credit point(s):	1
EFTSL value:	0.125
Unit chair:	L Bullen
Note: Online teaching methods require internet access. Please refer to the most current computer specifications.

Content

This unit focuses on novels and films for young adults, an increasingly prominent market segment. Students will consider young adults as an implied audience and identify the ideological thrusts and socializing agendas in texts, identifying the ways in which novels and film texts of their choice map the processes of maturity to adulthood. Attention is paid to theories dealing with notions of adolescence as a cultural and historical construct, and to the ways in which discursive modes create subjectivities that have the potential to reinforce and remodel identity and power structures, both within texts and in contemporary culture.

Assessment

Two essays, 2000 words each, 40% each

Four online tasks, 250 words each, 5% each

Unit Fee Information

Student Contribution Rate*	Student Contribution Rate**	Student Contribution Rate***	Fee rate - Domestic Students	Fee rate - International students
$680	$680	$680	$1661	$2513

* Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2010
** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2009
*** Student contribution rate for Commonwealth Supported students who commenced studies from 2008
**** Fee rate for students who commenced studies from 2005
***** Fee rate for students who commenced studies from 2006
Please note: Unit fees listed do not apply to Deakin Prime students.