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| Location | Domestic | International |
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| Coffs Harbour | Term4 | Term4 |
| Gold Coast | Term4 | Term4 |
| Lismore | Term4 | Term4 |
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Unit description
Encourages interdisciplinary approaches to develop understandings of how literature reflects and creates ways of knowing and being in the world. Students explore diverse literature through chronological, disciplinary, cultural and problem-based frameworks. The unit develops critical and creative skills for analysing and synthesising language forms and higher-order literacy demands (i.e. social, aesthetic and cultural).
Unit content
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | understand the nature and role of language and literature as a means by which we relate to others and shape our understanding of ourselves and our world |
| 2 | understand how the structure of language and literature relates to higher-order social, aesthetic and cultural literacy demands and subject-specific literacies |
| 3 | understand and apply various ways to make meaning through choices in language and form based on audience, context and purpose |
| 4 | creatively use and analyse language forms, features and structures of literature in different modes, media and technologies |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- understand the nature and role of language and literature as a means by which we relate to others and shape our understanding of ourselves and our world
- understand how the structure of language and literature relates to higher-order social, aesthetic and cultural literacy demands and subject-specific literacies
- understand and apply various ways to make meaning through choices in language and form based on audience, context and purpose
- creatively use and analyse language forms, features and structures of literature in different modes, media and technologies
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.
- Prescribed text information is not currently available.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
Domestic
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International
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