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Unit description

Guides students through contemporary theoretical debates about the relationship between written texts and circulation of meaning within cultures. Students will explore these theories in creative and critical work focused on ethics, authorship and language. Provides an Introductory chapter for students commencing with no literary studies background, and develops skills for writers re-entering tertiary education after an absence. Students will receive critical feedback integral to their writing practice.

Unit content

1. Introduction: Summary of ideas

2. Meaning and the circulation of meaning within cultures

3. Cultural values and creative practice

4. The question of authorship/ethics

5. Power and ethics (intertext)

6. Language and resistance in a globalised world

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 the capability to explore theoretical issues in creative writing.Knowledge of a discipline
2demonstrate cultural competence with an awareness of ethics, authorship and language.Ethical practiceKnowledge of a disciplineCultural competence
3explore theoretical concepts in creative writing. Knowledge of a discipline

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

  1. demonstrate the capability to explore theoretical issues in creative writing.
    • GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
  2. demonstrate cultural competence with an awareness of ethics, authorship and language.
    • GA3: Ethical practice
    • GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
    • GA7: Cultural competence
  3. explore theoretical concepts in creative writing.
    • GA4: Knowledge of a discipline

Prescribed texts

  • Beatty, P, 2015, The Sellout, Farrar, Straus and Giroux , New York. ISBN: 9781786071460.
  • Riwoe, M, 2017, The Fish Girl, Brio Books, Australia. ISBN: 9781925589061.
  • Rose, H, 2016, The Museum of Modern Love, Allen and Unwin, Australia. ISBN: 9781760291860.
Prescribed texts may change in future study periods.

Teaching and assessment

Notice

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Fee information

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