ALL721 - Writing for Children

Year:

2027 unit information

Enrolment modes:

Intensive period: February Online intensive*

Trimester 1: Online

Credit point(s): 1
EFTSL value: 0.125
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite: Nil
Incompatible with:

ALL725, ALL726

Study commitment:

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.

Scheduled learning activities - online:

Intensive period:

6 x 2-hour online seminars per intensive period

6 x 1-hour online practical experiences (workshop) per intensive period

Trimester 1:

1 x 2-hour online seminars per week

Content

This unit develops the skills of aspiring authors and scholars of writing for young people. Students will learn about form, genre, narrative strategies, characters, settings, representation, publishing and editing through textual analysis, pitching, and workshopping exercises. The unit culminates with students producing a creative output that demonstrates their knowledge of key concepts via a short story, an excerpt from a piece of junior, middle-grade or young adult fiction, or a dummy for a picture book or graphic novel.

Unit fee information

Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study and their study discipline, and your study load.

Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.

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