Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2019-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2019-ONGOING

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Appreciate how specific texts represent creative, imaginative, professional and public forms of cultural practice.

2.

Recognise the purpose, use and impacts of diverse texts in cultures past and present.

3.

Recognise the dynamic relationship between text, context, writer/performer and reader/audience.

4.

Critically engage with and respond to a range of literary, creative and performative texts and genres.

5.

Write and/or perform short pieces in selected genres as forms of academic, literary, creative and performative practice.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

Students will engage with a wide range of digital and physical texts: literary, creative, non-fiction, and performative, as they learn about the central role of text in culture. They will learn to identify specific genres and styles and to reflect critically on the dynamic relationship between writer/performer, text, reader and context.