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Unit description
Introduces students to the theories and practices involved in a range of innovative and experimental writing techniques used in a number of genres/forms. Students will be encouraged to experiment with and make practical use of the aesthetic conventions and textual strategies read about and discussed in the course in their own writing.
Unit content
Topic 1 Introduction: Experimental/innovative writing
Topic 2 Language unhinged
Topic 3 The art of the mundane
Topic 4 Restriction-innovation
Topic 5 Hybridity, intertextuality and interdisciplinarity
Topic 6 Technologies of writing
Topic 7 Identity, subjectivity, the posthuman and more-than-human
Topic 8 Time
Topic 9 Absurdity
Topic 10 Global-local
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: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demonstrate an understanding of the major literary innovations of the 20th and 21st centuries | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 2 | identify and use writing strategies involved in experimenting with and writing against conventional writing techniques in a variety of literary forms and genres | Creativity | ||||||
| 3 | understand how issues of identity have contributed to major changes in literary and popular genres and modes of writing | Intellectual rigour | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 4 | demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which changes to technology have contributed to new writing modes and genres | Creativity | ||||||
| 5 | demonstrate the ways in which the theoretical and practical premises discussed in this course have enhanced their own writing praxis. | Creativity | ||||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- demonstrate an understanding of the major literary innovations of the 20th and 21st centuries
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- identify and use writing strategies involved in experimenting with and writing against conventional writing techniques in a variety of literary forms and genres
- GA2: Creativity
- understand how issues of identity have contributed to major changes in literary and popular genres and modes of writing
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which changes to technology have contributed to new writing modes and genres
- GA2: Creativity
- demonstrate the ways in which the theoretical and practical premises discussed in this course have enhanced their own writing praxis.
- GA2: Creativity
Teaching and assessment
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