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Last updated: 4 March 2022
Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Cloud (online), CBD*
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ALL330, ALL430, ALL630
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 seminar per week
Independent and collaborative learning activities including 1 x 2-hour seminar or equivalent per week
*CBD refers to the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation (NIKERI) Institute; Community Based Delivery
Young people engage with multimodal narratives across a range of genres – stories that are heard, read, performed, screened, and interacted with. The first children’s literature was adapted, and often appropriated, from texts for adults: tales, romances or plays. Building on the study of narrative and genre from earlier units, this unit examines the transformation of texts within and across media, including adaptations of Shakespeare, picture books, graphic and prose novels, film and digital media texts. It introduces students to concepts such as fidelity, media specificity of narrative techniques, cultural context, cross-writing for broader audiences, and multimodal engagement. In addition, it provides students with techniques for critiquing these texts, their narrative discourse, marketing, and role in pedagogical, as well as entertainment, contexts.
Understand debates in the study of intertexuality, adaptation and remediation
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
Analyse media-specific narrative codes and strategies
GLO4: Critical thinking
Understand the role of Shakespeare and other classic texts, and their adaptations, in the literary canon and education
Demonstrate communication skills and critical thinking both in literary analysis and analysis of literacy practices, accessing and sharing digital texts to do so
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
Synthesise knowledge of scholarly debates in order to evaluate the influences of social and industrial contexts, publishing formats and narrative modes on the form and content of adaptations
GLO5: Problem solving
Produce critical and creative discourses and digital texts that demonstrate understanding of narrative strategies and media specific codes
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: ALL230 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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