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ALL102 - From Horror to Romance: Genre and Its Revisions

Year:

2020 unit information

Important Update:

Classes and seminars in Trimester 3, 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 trimester.

Last updated: 5 October 2020

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Cloud (online), CBD*
Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne), Cloud (online)

Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 2: David McCooey
Trimester 3: Maria Takolander
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with:

ALL402

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:

Trimester 2: 1 x 1-hour class per week, 1 x 2-hour seminar per week

Trimester 3: 1 x 1-hour cloud class per week, 1 x 2-hour seminar (face to face on campus) per week

Scheduled learning activities - cloud:

Trimester 2 and 3: Online independent and collaborative learning activities including: 1 x 1-hour class per week (recordings provided), 2-hour online seminar per week equivalent

Note:

*CBD refers to the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute; Community Based Delivery

Content

This unit invites students to analyse popular genres such as horror, crime, autobiography, science fiction, and romance. Storytelling is a fundamental means through which humans make sense of the world, and genres provide common templates for story-telling and meaning-making. This unit will investigate the origins of genres and their revision across time, highlighting how genre stories are involved in cultural struggles over meaning. The unit will take a historical and comparative approach, but it will also introduce students to relevant interdisciplinary fields such as gender studies and media studies. Encompassing novels, films, poetry, comics, and interactive digital narratives, set texts include Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, Sylvia Plath’s Ariel, Ana Lily Amirpour’s A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Kelly Sue DeConnick’s and Valentine de Landro’s Bitch Planet, and The Fullbright Company’s Gone Home. Students will write their own piece of genre fiction, as well as undertaking a multimedia presentation and a critical essay exploring genre and its revisions.

 

These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit

At the completion of this unit, successful students can:

Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes

ULO1

 Apply knowledge of literary history, modes, concepts and language to an understanding of the real-world function of literary texts and literary study

GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities

ULO2

 Use a broad range of vocabulary in the comparative evaluation of texts and in the critical investigation of text-world relationships, adopting clear, well-structured forms of oral and written communication

GLO2: Communication

ULO3

 Apply knowledge of how different social and cultural contexts have an impact on literature and language, and explore ethics in relation to social conduct and responsibility in order to engage in a scholarly and professional manner in local, national and international contexts

GLO3: Digital literacy

ULO4

 Employ a range of digital communication technologies to conduct literary research and to express your knowledge and judgements in a variety of forms

GLO4: Critical thinking

ULO5

 Analyse, evaluate and synthesise knowledge and express your judgements and inquiries in a variety of forms and appropriate registers, with a growing understanding of literary studies conventions, to generate new, innovative and creative solutions GLO5: Problem solving

ULO6

 Demonstrate autonomy, responsibility and a continued commitment to learning and skill development, as a reflective and self-directed practitioner, to pursue life-long learning

GLO6: Self-management

 

These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year

Assessment

Trimester 2:
Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)		 Indicative due week
Assessment 1 (Individual) - Presentation 800 words or equivalent 20% Week 5
Assessment 2 (Individual) - Exercise 1600 words or equivalent 40% Week 9
Assessment 3 (Individual) - Essay 1600 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 the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: ALL102 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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