Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2019-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2019-ONGOING

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Learning outcomes

1.

Engage with a range of canonical, popular and everyday textual genres, modes and styles to stimulate critical and imaginative reading, writing and performative practice.

2.

Recognise and understand the key concepts, theories and practices that underpin the critical reading/writing and performing of texts in specific contexts.

3.

Draw on and apply selected concepts, theories and practices to read, write and/or perform a range of accessible texts.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

Students will develop their understanding of:

  • how texts make meaning in culturally specific contexts.
  • literary concepts including genre, form, structure, style, voice, character, plot and narrative.
  • theoretical and conceptual frameworks, for example cosmopolitanism, feminism and related concepts about race and gender.
  • Students will develop and apply these understandings to a range of activities including critical reading, creative and professional writing, and performance texts.