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Unit description

Introduces students to fictional explorations of shades of morality, the complexity of human motivation and situations where morality and the law conflict. Students will practice writing craft and write their own short story about a character facing a moral quandary with legal implications.

Unit content

Topic 1: Building complex, multi-faceted characters. Contradictory aspects of character, layers of motivation. Character desire and how it drives plot.

Topic 2: Building tension with scene and dialogue. How to convey the character’s inner world through scene and framing of moral dilemas.

Topic 3: Point of view and narrative distance. Who’s narrating the story and how does that choice affect the story and reader?

Topic 4: Plot, rising action and framing a short story which encapsualtes a moral quandary. 

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.

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:GA1GA2GA3GA4GA5GA6GA7
1demonstrate understanding of how to build a complex character using reflection, exposition, scene, and dialogueCreativityKnowledge of a discipline
2demonstrate understanding of the difference between scene and summaryKnowledge of a discipline
3show ability to write with both a remote and close narrative distanceKnowledge of a discipline
4demonstrate ability to write rising action and a compelling moral quandary CreativityEthical practice

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. demonstrate understanding of how to build a complex character using reflection, exposition, scene, and dialogue
    • GA2: Creativity
    • GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
  2. demonstrate understanding of the difference between scene and summary
    • GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
  3. show ability to write with both a remote and close narrative distance
    • GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
  4. demonstrate ability to write rising action and a compelling moral quandary
    • GA2: Creativity
    • GA3: Ethical practice

Prescribed texts

  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed texts may change in future study periods.

Teaching and assessment

Notice

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Fee information

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