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2025 unit information
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Trimester 1: 1 x 1-hour online lecture per week
1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per week
Trimester 3: 1 x 1-hour online lecture per week
1 x 2-hour on-campus (seminar) per trimester in week 1
1 x 4-hour on-campus (seminar) per trimester in weeks 2, 3, 5, 8, 11
1 x 2-hour online seminar per week
1 x 2-hour online (seminar) per trimester in week 1
1 x 4-hour online (seminar) per trimester in weeks 2, 3, 5, 8, 11
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.
This is a unit that combines the practice of attentive reading with creative writing. Students are exposed to a wide range of literary texts, as well as to a suite of crucial skills and craft elements that found creative writing of a professional standard. Students also write about their work and the processes involved in its composition, introducing critical thinking and modes of expression that will support them during and beyond their degree.
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
Identify the key components of writing
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
Practise and apply the key components of writing
GLO2: Communication
Understand and apply current standards of grammar and language usage
Demonstrate critical thinking and composition abilities through giving and receiving constructive critique
GLO4: Critical thinking
Develop short writing projects
GLO5: Problem solving
Design creative writing strategies
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 ALW101 can be found via the University Library.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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