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2025 unit information
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1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per week
1 x 2-hour online seminar per week
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 unit introduces students to the production of creative writing for young people. Students will engage with a variety of genres and narrative approaches, through the study of creative and critical texts relevant to child and young adult literature. Students undertaking this unit will learn to draft and pitch their work, identifying and applying key concepts around genre, audience and narration. This knowledge will be showcased in a final assessment: a substantial piece of creative writing for young people.
Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs)
Use competent, clear, accurate and appropriate written language to produce and communicate creative and reflective work to a deadline
GLO1: Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO2: Communication
GLO6: Self-management
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical Thinking
GLO8: Global Citizenship
Find, evaluate and apply theories about writing for young people from a range of scholarly sources to your own work and effectively respond to feedback
GLO4: Critical thinking
Identify, practise and apply key theories and approaches to writing for young people in your own creative work
Demonstrate capacity to draft and improve both critical and creative work in response to feedback
GLO5: Problem solving
Demonstrate critical awareness of ethical principles In examination of various global, social and cultural contexts in which texts for young people are produced
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 ALW352 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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