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Classes and seminars in Trimester 2/Semester 2, 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 your trimester or semester.
Last updated: 2 June 2020
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ALL408, ALL608
Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
Burwood Campus: 1 x 3-hour seminar in weeks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11
Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 1 x 2-hour seminar equivalent
Students will study the picture-book 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 picture books. Students will be given the option of writing a picture-book text and will receive instruction in this form of writing.
These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit
At the completion of this unit, successful students can:
Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1
Analyse picture books in relation to their ideologies and visual/verbal strategies
GLO4: Critical thinking
ULO2
Develop a clear, coherent and sustained argument
GLO2: Communication
ULO3
Create a picture book text and picture book design
ULO4
Deploy analytical strategies appropriate to literary studies and semiotics
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
ULO5
Work collaboratively in a group to produce book reviews
GLO7: Teamwork
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
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.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: 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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