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Last updated: 4 March 2022
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Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
Online independent and collaborative learning activities including 1 x 2-hour seminar equivalent and 1 (one) scheduled online workshop
This unit studies contemporary short stories from Australia and around the world to examine how 'revision'-of stories, characters, voices, genres, and forms-underlies creative 'vision'. With an emphasis on formal innovation and the digital publishing environment, revisionism is explored as a central methodology of creative practice. Texts studied include Tom Cho's Look Who's Morphing, Ceridwen Dovey's Only the Animals, The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, Ryan O'Neill's The Weight of a Human Heart, Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad, and electronic collection of short stories. Students will write diverse assessment pieces designed for an online portfolio.
Articulate how revisionism forms a central methodology of creative practice in relation to not only the contemporary short story but also other global cultural forms
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital literacy
GLO4: Critical thinking
Articulate how contemporary innovation in the short story is a response to contemporary developments in the sociocultural and publishing worlds (such as postmodernism and the digital age.
Communicate knowledge about literary revisionism using various critical and creative forms of writing, including forms appropriate to publication
Relate constructively to others by providing and receiving feedback on writing drafts and by communicating on the CloudDeakin site
GLO7: Teamwork
Articulate how the knowledge acquired in this unit creates professional understanding of the contemporary global publishing environment
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: ALL705 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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