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Last updated: 4 March 2022
Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Cloud (online), CBD*
Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne), Cloud (online)
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ALL402
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
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
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
*CBD refers to the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute; Community Based Delivery
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: 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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