Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

This unit is offered as one of the Creative Industries Honours unit options for students in the Honours program KK53. It is specifically designed for those students doing Honours in either Creative Writing or Literary Studies. It aims to acquaint you with theories relevant to your selected research project(s) and help you develop practical, professional, critical and analytical skills relevant to these.

Aims

This unit aims to support you in developing a critical understanding of your Honours thesis, in particular in relation to advanced theory in authorship studies. This unit will enable you to identify and apply relevant literary and cultural theory, and assist in the development of your textual and discourse analysis skills.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to:
1.Develop a critical and/or creative work that demonstrates an understanding of research in the field of either Creative Writing or Literary Studies.
2.Design a theoretical framework for the creative and/or critical work.
3.Discuss the relationships between theory and practice, and their applications and articulation in your work.
4.Critically reflect on your processes in planning, developing and writing the work and articulate the contribution to the field the work may make.

Content

This unit addresses content such as:
1. Theory and practice in Creative Writing and Literary Studies.
2. Authorship criticism and theory.
3. Textual and discourse analysis.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

The unit will be delivered fortnightly via a mix of interactive seminar presentations and workshops during which you will be involved in writing activities, structured discussions and reflective practices related to the production of a critical work in either Creative Writing or Literary Studies. Some of the seminars will be delivered by a number of contributing staff from the creative writing, professional writing and literary studies areas. Supplementary information will be made available on Blackboard and the CMDB as will all presentation notes and other relevant material. There will be collaboration between the teaching staff and supervisors to ensure that unit content contributes positively to the ongoing relationship between student and supervisor.

Assessment

The summative assessment for this unit is structured around written abilities in communicating knowledge of the materials being presented specifically as they relate to your creative and/or critical work for the unit. Formative as well as summative feedback will be provided for each of the assessment pieces.You will receive formative feedback from lecturers and peers in the form of fortnightly oral responses to scheduled workshop activity.
Summative feedback will be provided by formal assessment of your work, measured against specific criteria identified as relevant to the learning outcomes.

Assessment name: Item 1: Project Plan
Description: You will write a project plan for your major piece of assessment (Assesment Item 2), indicating its scope, the research problem and the theories and approaches you might draw on to address it.
Relates to objectives: 1,2,4
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Early Semester

Assessment name: Critical or Creative Work
Description: You will write a critical essay and/or creative work which draws on authorship theory as a theoretical basis to discuss a specific topic within Creative Writing and Literary Studies. This may related directly to your Honours project or be an independent study..
Relates to objectives: 1,3,4
Weight: 60%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: End Semester

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

There are no required set texts for this unit. Readings and relevant material will be provided on Blackboard.

Risk assessment statement

There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks for this unit.

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 19-Oct-2012