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ENGX2030 – Literature and the Visual
2025 – Session 1, Online-flexible
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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
General Assessment Information
All written tasks are to be submitted via Turnitin on the ENGL2030 iLearn site
The quiz will be available on the ENGL2030 iLearn site
LATE PENALTY: Unless a Special Consideration request has been submitted and approved, a 5% penalty (of the total possible mark) will be applied each day a written assessment is not submitted, up until the 7th day (including weekends). After the 7th day, a mark of ‘0’ (zero) will be awarded even if the assessment is submitted. Submission time for all written assessments is set at 11.55pm. A 1-hour grace period is provided to students who experience a technical issue. This late penalty will apply to written reports and recordings only. Late submission of time sensitive tasks (such as tests/exams, performance assessments/presentations, scheduled practical assessments/labs will be addressed by the unit convenor in a Special consideration application.
Assessment Tasks
| Name | Weighting | Hurdle | Due |
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| Online Quiz | 20% | No | 27/03/2025 |
| Textual Analysis | 35% | No | 13/04/2025 |
| Research Essay | 45% | No | 08/06/2025 |
Online Quiz
Assessment Type 1: Quiz/Test
Indicative Time on Task 2: 8 hours
Due: 27/03/2025
Weighting: 20%
Online multiple choice quiz
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a vocabulary for discussing narrative strategies in literary fiction, gaming, graphic novels, film and television
- Demonstrate a knowledge of genres and narrative forms and of the technical resources of different media
- Analyse the use of the formal resources of different genres, specifically literary fiction, gaming, graphic novels, film and television
Textual Analysis
Assessment Type 1: Case study/analysis
Indicative Time on Task 2: 16 hours
Due: 13/04/2025
Weighting: 35%
Textual Analysis Task
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a vocabulary for discussing narrative strategies in literary fiction, gaming, graphic novels, film and television
- Demonstrate a knowledge of genres and narrative forms and of the technical resources of different media
- Analyse the use of the formal resources of different genres, specifically literary fiction, gaming, graphic novels, film and television
Research Essay
Assessment Type 1: Essay
Indicative Time on Task 2: 36 hours
Due: 08/06/2025
Weighting: 45%
Research Essay Related to a Set Topic
On successful completion you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a vocabulary for discussing narrative strategies in literary fiction, gaming, graphic novels, film and television
- 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
- Critically examine the ways in which ideas and speculations about the individual and society have varied between the 17th century and 21st centuries
1 If you need help with your assignment, please contact:
- the academic teaching staff in your unit for guidance in understanding or completing this type of assessment
- the Writing Centre for academic skills support.
2 Indicative time-on-task is an estimate of the time required for completion of the assessment task and is subject to individual variation
Delivery and Resources
One Recorded Lecture
One Weekly Forum
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- Academic Appeals Policy
- Academic Integrity Policy
- Academic Progression Policy
- Assessment Policy
- Fitness to Practice Procedure
- Assessment Procedure
- Complaints Resolution Procedure for Students and Members of the Public
- Special Consideration Policy
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Student Code of Conduct
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Results
Results published on platform other than eStudent, (eg. iLearn, Coursera etc.) or released directly by your Unit Convenor, are not confirmed as they are subject to final approval by the University. Once approved, final results will be sent to your student email address and will be made available in eStudent. For more information visit connect.mq.edu.au or if you are a Global MBA student contact globalmba.support@mq.edu.au
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Unit information based on version 2025.02 of the Handbook