Course search
2021 unit information
Unit delivery will continue to be provided in line with the most current COVIDSafe health guidelines. This may include a mix of on-campus and online activities. To find out how you are impacted, please check your unit sites for announcements and updates. Unit sites open one week prior to the start of each Trimester/Semester.
Thank you for your flexibility and commitment to studying with Deakin in 2021.
Last updated: 4 June 2021
Nil
ALL408, ALL608
Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
1 x 2-hour weekly seminar
Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 1 x 2-hour seminar equivalent
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.
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
ULO5
Demonstrate autonomy, judgement and accountability for their own learning based on tutor feedback
GLO6: Self management
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.
Click on the fee link below which describes you:
