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ENGL2030 – Literature and the Visual
2020 – Session 1, Weekday attendance, North Ryde
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General Information
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| Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Ryan Twomey
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| Credit points |
Credit points
10
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| Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
40cp
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| Corequisites |
Corequisites
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| Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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| Unit description |
Unit description
This unit focuses on intersections between literary and visual narratives across a variety of media. Students will analyse traditional literary texts (novels, poetry, short story) alongside graphic novels, television series, films, and video games, to consider the multitude of ways in which visual forms borrow from the literary imagination. The unit will engage with research and scholarship focused on sequential art, serialised television, film studies, and new media theory, while exploring methods of adaptation and transmedia production. Key theoretical and conceptual issues such as narrative methods in poetry, drama, prose, and visual communication and literacy will be examined, along with the role literary and visual narratives play in the public discourse surrounding politics, gender, ethnicity, and the environment. |
Important Academic Dates
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Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- ULO1: Demonstrate a vocabulary for discussing narrative strategies in literary fiction, gaming, graphic novels, film and television
- ULO2: Demonstrate a knowledge of genres and narrative forms and of the technical resources of different media
- ULO3: Research and discuss humanist concerns, specifically the role of the past in the present, the nature of human identity, subjectivity and the uses of power, in relation to the set texts
- ULO4: Analyse the use of the formal resources of different genres, specifically literary fiction, gaming, graphic novels, film and television
- ULO5: Critically examine the ways in which ideas and speculations about the individual and society have varied between the 17th century and 21st centuries
Assessment Tasks
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General Assessment Information
Late Assessment Penalty
Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, (a) a penalty for lateness will apply – two (2) marks out of 100 will be deducted per day for assignments submitted after the due date – and (b) no assignment will be accepted more than seven (7) days (incl. weekends) after the original submission deadline. No late submissions will be accepted for timed assessments – e.g. the three online quizzes.
Delivery and Resources
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DELIVERY:
One lecture and one tutorial per week (tutorials start in week one).
Online units can be accessed at: http://www.ilearn.mq.edu.au
The unit uses the following technology: Leganto, echo 360, and iLearn
REQUIRE READINGS/TV & FILMS/GAMES
See Handbook on iLearn and listen to the first lecture for details.
Unit Schedule
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Week |
Topics |
Learning Activities / Resources |
Notes |
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Week 1 |
Introduction |
Tutorials Start |
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Week 2 |
Watchmen |
Viewing Prior to Lecture |
Extra Episodes + Graphic Novel |
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Week 3 |
True Detective Season 3 |
Viewing Prior to Lecture |
View Extra Episodes |
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Week 4 |
Stranger Things |
Viewing Prior to Lecture |
View Extra Episodes |
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Week 5 |
Memento |
Viewing Prior to Lecture |
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Week 6 |
Macbeth |
Viewing Prior to Lecture |
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Week 7 |
The Kid with a Bike |
Viewing Prior to Lecture |
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Week 8 |
Maus |
Read Maus |
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Week 9 |
Death-Ray |
Read Death-Ray |
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Week 10 |
Bitch Planet |
Read Bitch Planet |
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Week 11 |
History of Gaming Narrative |
Play Florence |
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Week 12 |
Gaming in Practice |
Play The Great Fire |
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Week 13 |
Final Lecture |
No Tutorials |
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- Academic Appeals Policy
- Academic Integrity Policy
- Academic Progression Policy
- Assessment Policy
- Fitness to Practice Procedure
- Grade Appeal Policy
- Complaint Management Procedure for Students and Members of the Public
- Special Consideration Policy (Note: The Special Consideration Policy is effective from 4 December 2017 and replaces the Disruption to Studies Policy.)
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Changes since First Published
| Date | Description |
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| 23/02/2020 | I was waiting for the OUA unit guide to be populated before submitting the internal unit guide to make sure they were verbatim. |