Program Overview

Unit of Study ENG10022 - Writing from the Edge

Unit Snapshot

• Unit type: UG Coursework Unit
• Credit points: 12
• AQF level: 7
• Level of learning: Advanced
• Former School/College: Former School of Arts and Social Sciences
• Pre-requisites:
  • ENG00400 - Introduction to Written Texts
  • WRI10001 - Contemporary Reading and Writing Practices
  • WRI10003 - Short Story Writing
• Enrolment information: N/A

Unit Description

Introduces students to the theories and practices involved in a range of innovative and experimental writing techniques used in a number of genres/forms. Students will be encouraged to experiment with and make practical use of the aesthetic conventions and textual strategies read about and discussed in the course in their own writing.

Unit Content

• Topic 1: Introduction: Experimental/innovative writing
• Topic 2: Language unhinged
• Topic 3: The art of the mundane
• Topic 4: Restriction-innovation
• Topic 5: Hybridity, intertextuality and interdisciplinarity
• Topic 6: Technologies of writing
• Topic 7: Identity, subjectivity, the posthuman and more-than-human
• Topic 8: Time
• Topic 9: Absurdity
• Topic 10: Global-local

Availabilities

Learning Outcomes and Graduate Attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

1. demonstrate an understanding of the major literary innovations of the 20th and 21st centuries
   • GA1: Intellectual rigour
   • GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
2. identify and use writing strategies involved in experimenting with and writing against conventional writing techniques in a variety of literary forms and genres
   • GA2: Creativity
3. understand how issues of identity have contributed to major changes in literary and popular genres and modes of writing
   • GA1: Intellectual rigour
   • GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
4. demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which changes to technology have contributed to new writing modes and genres
   • GA2: Creativity
5. demonstrate the ways in which the theoretical and practical premises discussed in this course have enhanced their own writing praxis
   • GA2: Creativity

Prescribed Learning Resources

Session 1

• Prescribed Texts: No prescribed texts.
• Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.

Graduate Attributes

• GA1: Intellectual rigour - A commitment to excellence in all scholarly and intellectual activities, including critical judgement.
• GA2: Creativity - An ability to develop creative and effective responses to intellectual, professional and social challenges.
• GA3: Ethical practice - A commitment to sustainability and high ethical standards in social and professional practices.
• GA4: Knowledge of a discipline - Command of a discipline to enable a smooth transition and contribution to professional and community settings.
• GA5: Lifelong learning - The ability to be responsive to change, to be inquiring and reflective in practice, through information literacy and autonomous, self-managed learning.
• GA6: Communication and social skills - The ability to communicate and collaborate with individuals, and within teams, in professional and community settings.
• GA7: Cultural competence - An ability to engage with diverse cultural and Indigenous perspectives in both global and local settings.