EUB255 Literature: Theory and Practice
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| Unit code: | EUB255 |
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| Equivalent(s): | LCB322 |
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $555 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,324 |
| International unit fee | $4,224 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | EUB255 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | LCB322 |
| Coordinator: | Ana Duffy | av.duffy@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit provides you with opportunities to explore literature and fiction, theories of how literary and fictional works are produced, and to engage in creative writing. You will explore, as both consumers and creators, how fictional texts can convey and transform personal and cultural perspectives. The unit invites you to draw on a very wide repertoire of fictional texts across all media in interpreting and creating texts for professional, personal, cultural, social and aesthetic purposes.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a wide knowledge of historical and contemporary literary theories and techniques of creative writing.
- Evaluate and reflect critically on fictional works using literary theory.
- Understand and evaluate the nature of readers' responses to fictional texts.
- Demonstrate skills of creative thinking and imagination through your own original creative writing and the exploration of how literary texts shape perceptions of the world and enable us to enter into the worlds of others.
- Engage in the critical exploration of ways in which literary and non-literary texts may reflect or challenge social and cultural ways of thinking and influence diverse audiences, and through the reading and creation of texts demonstrate an empathy for others and an appreciation of different perspectives.
- Communicate effectively in both written and spoken language.
Content
In this unit you will learn about:
- Literary theories, including traditional aesthetic and moral criticism, notions of the canon and 'great literature', reader response and reception theory, semiotics and structuralism, ecocriticism and literary animal studies, fan fiction and transformative fiction, genre, experimental fiction, definitions of narrative, identity criticism;
- Applying literary theory to a critical understanding of a wide diversity of fictional texts including novels, short stories, drama, poetry, film and television, music videos, graphic novels, online games etc.
- Responding to, and analysing, literary and fictional texts creatively and critically both as a consumer and a producer;
- Analysing the ways cultural assumptions, attitudes, values and beliefs underpin texts from diverse times and places inviting readers, viewers and listeners to take up different positions; and
- Techniques of creative and imaginative writing.
You will develop the following skills and capabilities:
- Understanding of literary theories and how to apply them to individual texts;
- Understanding of a wide diversity of literary and fictional texts; and
- Skills of creative and imaginative writing.
Learning Approaches
A tutorial will be conducted each week supported by an online lecture and other online learning resources. The lectures will focus on aspects of literary theory and in tutorials you will look at how to apply the theories and also undertake exercises in creative writing.
Materials and activities are designed to engage you in your learning through a range of learning approaches including explicit teaching and learning, debate and discussion. You are expected to come to class prepared, having done any prescribed reading, viewing, writing and thinking.
Literacy and 21st century skills of critical and creative thinking, communication and personal and social interaction are emphasised in this unit.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will gain formative feedback in this unit from your lecturer and other students through your participation in regular tutorial discussions. You will also receive written feedback from your lecturer on both pieces of summative assessment.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment tasks in the unit are designed to allow you to demonstrate learning achievement in both scholarly and creative modes. Task one allows you to demonstrate analytical and evaluative skills which you can apply in your professional practice. Task two encourages you to develop your written and creative expression and reflect on how you might apply these skills to your professional area. Both tasks allow you to develop and demonstrate skills of analysis, critique, evaluation and creativity.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Essay
You will write an essay using a literary theory to analyse a text of your choice.
This task will assess your:
1. Knowledge and understanding of your chosen set topic.
2. Research and writing skills.
3. Skills of reflection and critical evaluation.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Creative Work and Essay
You will write a short work of creative fiction and a reflection on this piece of work. A variety of digital formats can be used to present your work.
This task will assess your:
1. Techniques of creative and imaginative expression.
2. Research and writing skills.
3. Skills of reflection and critical evaluation.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Provided on Canvas
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with the general conduct of this unit. Workplace health and safety protocols in relation to computer use will apply.
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Online
| Unit code: | EUB255 |
|---|---|
| Credit points: | 12 |
| Equivalent: | LCB322 |
Overview
This unit provides you with opportunities to explore literature and fiction, theories of how literary and fictional works are produced, and to engage in creative writing. You will explore, as both consumers and creators, how fictional texts can convey and transform personal and cultural perspectives. The unit invites you to draw on a very wide repertoire of fictional texts across all media in interpreting and creating texts for professional, personal, cultural, social and aesthetic purposes.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a wide knowledge of historical and contemporary literary theories and techniques of creative writing.
- Evaluate and reflect critically on fictional works using literary theory.
- Understand and evaluate the nature of readers' responses to fictional texts.
- Demonstrate skills of creative thinking and imagination through your own original creative writing and the exploration of how literary texts shape perceptions of the world and enable us to enter into the worlds of others.
- Engage in the critical exploration of ways in which literary and non-literary texts may reflect or challenge social and cultural ways of thinking and influence diverse audiences, and through the reading and creation of texts demonstrate an empathy for others and an appreciation of different perspectives.
- Communicate effectively in both written and spoken language.
Content
In this unit you will learn about:
- Literary theories, including traditional aesthetic and moral criticism, notions of the canon and 'great literature', reader response and reception theory, semiotics and structuralism, ecocriticism and literary animal studies, fan fiction and transformative fiction, genre, experimental fiction, definitions of narrative, identity criticism;
- Applying literary theory to a critical understanding of a wide diversity of fictional texts including novels, short stories, drama, poetry, film and television, music videos, graphic novels, online games etc.
- Responding to, and analysing, literary and fictional texts creatively and critically both as a consumer and a producer;
- Analysing the ways cultural assumptions, attitudes, values and beliefs underpin texts from diverse times and places inviting readers, viewers and listeners to take up different positions; and
- Techniques of creative and imaginative writing.
You will develop the following skills and capabilities:
- Understanding of literary theories and how to apply them to individual texts;
- Understanding of a wide diversity of literary and fictional texts; and
- Skills of creative and imaginative writing.
Learning Approaches
A tutorial will be conducted each week supported by an online lecture and other online learning resources. The lectures will focus on aspects of literary theory and in tutorials you will look at how to apply the theories and also undertake exercises in creative writing.
Materials and activities are designed to engage you in your learning through a range of learning approaches including explicit teaching and learning, debate and discussion. You are expected to come to class prepared, having done any prescribed reading, viewing, writing and thinking.
Literacy and 21st century skills of critical and creative thinking, communication and personal and social interaction are emphasised in this unit.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will gain formative feedback in this unit from your lecturer and other students through your participation in regular tutorial discussions. You will also receive written feedback from your lecturer on both pieces of summative assessment.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment tasks in the unit are designed to allow you to demonstrate learning achievement in both scholarly and creative modes. Task one allows you to demonstrate analytical and evaluative skills which you can apply in your professional practice. Task two encourages you to develop your written and creative expression and reflect on how you might apply these skills to your professional area. Both tasks allow you to develop and demonstrate skills of analysis, critique, evaluation and creativity.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Essay
You will write an essay using a literary theory to analyse a text of your choice.
This task will assess your:
1. Knowledge and understanding of your chosen set topic.
2. Research and writing skills.
3. Skills of reflection and critical evaluation.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Creative Work and Essay
You will write a short work of creative fiction and a reflection on this piece of work. A variety of digital formats can be used to present your work.
This task will assess your:
1. Techniques of creative and imaginative expression.
2. Research and writing skills.
3. Skills of reflection and critical evaluation.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
Provided on Canvas
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks associated with the general conduct of this unit. Workplace health and safety protocols in relation to computer use will apply.