Diversity in Australian Writing
24 hours face to face + blended
One Semester or equivalent
Hawthorn
Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students
Overview
This unit examines debates about culture and identity within Australia through Australian writing and literature. Students evaluate the debates, issues, and literary devices that feature in contemporary Australian literature, and use these to inform their own critical and creative writing. Students present findings using industry standard media creation applications.
Requisites
Prerequisites
MDA10001
Introduction to Media StudiesAND
50 credit points
OR
MDA10018 Content Creator Lab OR JOU10007 Media Content Creation
Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
26-February-2024
26-May-2024
26-May-2024
Last self-enrolment date
10-March-2024
Census date
31-March-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Evaluate Australian writing, including First Nations perspectives, by examining its relationships to cultural issues.
- Analyse and synthesise knowledge of key literary terms in Australian contexts.
- Critically analyse Australian writing through an analysis of narratorial presence and purpose.
- Create original writing content that demonstrates an appraisal of the relationship between Australian writing, cultures and identities.
- Articulate the relationship between diverse representations in Australian storytelling, including ecological and socio-cultural debates and issues.
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
---|---|---|---|
Live Online Lecture | 1.00 | 12 weeks | 12 |
On-campus Class | 2.00 | 12 weeks | 24 |
Specified Activities Various | 3.00 | 12 weeks | 36 |
Unspecified Activities Various | 6.50 | 12 weeks | 78 |
TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
---|---|---|---|
Assignment 1 | Individual | 25% | 1,2,3,4 ,5 |
Assignment 2 | Individual | 45% | 1,2,3,4 ,5 |
Class Exercises | Individual | 30% | 1,2,3,4 ,5 |
Content
- Realist modes of storytelling
- Indigenous storytelling
- Narratives focusing gender and sexual diversity
- Narratives focusing the body and physical and mental health
- Life Writing
- Social realism
- Narratives focusing cultural diversity
- Narratives focusing emerging writers
- Fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, essays
- Short form narratives
- Long form narratives
- Themed narrative cycles
- Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Verbal communication
- Graduate Attribute – Communication Skills: Communicating using different media
- Graduate Attribute – Teamwork Skills: Collaboration and negotiation
- Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Information literacy
- Graduate Attribute – Digital Literacies: Technical literacy
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.