KWB215 Dangerous Ideas: Contemporary Debates in Writing
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| Unit code: | KWB215 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $2,040 |
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| Domestic tuition unit fee | $4,104 |
| International unit fee | $4,320 |
Unit Outline: Semester 2 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | KWB215 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Coordinator: | Sarah Holland-Batt | sarah.hollandbatt@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit introduces you to the key debates and ideas animating the field of contemporary creative writing, and allows you to consider your own writing practice in the context of these debates. The unit helps you to develop a nuanced understanding of the issues preoccupying contemporary writers, to gain insight into the historical and cultural factors informing those issues, and to articulate your own perspectives via conversation and debate. You will encounter a spectrum of ideas about what it means to be a writer today as well as the historical and cultural factors informing our ideas of authorship.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Analyse and interpret a range of contemporary issues and ideas facing writers.
- Develop and present an informed perspective about key issues in creative writing.
- Respond critically and creatively to the historical and cultural contexts of contemporary creative writing.
- Participate in respectful, constructive and collaborative discussion and debate with other students about key ideas in creative writing.
Content
The unit assists an understanding of contemporary debates in writing by engaging with key creative works, essays, and media documenting and engaging with those debates, alongside learning resources which provide cultural and historical context.
The unit develops graduate capabilities such as demonstrating the knowledge and skills required to pursue a writing career; applying critical and creative thinking and problem-solving in creative practice and analysis; and working in a self-reliant and independent way as well as showing teamwork in collaborative environments.
Learning Approaches
Classes will comprise a weekly lecture and tutorials, with additional blended learning content online.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
Feedback in this unit is provided to you in the following ways:
formative feedback on your progress in this unit during tutorials and discussions throughout the semester
comments on summative assessment work in addition to criteria sheets
criteria sheet grading
Assessment
Overview
Two assessment items are included in this unit. The first, an oral presentation/debate is designed to measure your ability to develop and present an informed perspective about key issues in creative writing, to respond critically and creatively to the historical and cultural contexts of contemporary creative writing and to participate in respectful, constructive and collaborative discussion and debate with other students about key ideas in creative writing.
The second assessment item consists of an essay or a creative work accompanied with a rationale that responds critically or creatively to one or more of the key debates studied and discussed over the course of the semester. This assessment item is designed to measure your ability to analyse and interpret a range of contemporary issues and ideas facing writers, to develop and present an informed perspective about key issues in creative writing, and to respond critically and creatively to the historical and cultural contexts of contemporary creative writing.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Debate
You will provide an oral presentation that mounts an argument regarding a key debate in contemporary writing.
Assessment: Portfolio
You will submit an essay or a creative work accompanied with a rationale that responds critically or creatively to one or more of the key debates studied and discussed over the course of the semester.
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
Required resources for this unit will be provided via QUT Readings.
Risk Assessment Statement
All students and staff are required to complete the Tier 1 CIF General Health and Safety Induction for access to campus buildings and facilities. This must be completed online.
There are no out-of-the-ordinary risks for this unit.
Course Learning Outcomes
This unit is designed to support your development of the following course/study area learning outcomes.KK34 Bachelor of Fine Arts
- Cite and discuss a broad and coherent knowledge of historical and contemporary cultural contexts for creative practice, including the contribution of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledges.
Relates to: ULO1 - Identify and demonstrate knowledge of the techniques and concepts underpinning your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO3 - Demonstrate complex problem solving through iterative experimentation and the creative and critical development of ideas and outcomes.
Relates to: ULO2 - Demonstrate technical proficiency in at least one area of your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO1, ULO3 - Communicate independent learning clearly and coherently in diverse modes relevant to your field of creative practice.
Relates to: ULO2, ULO4 - Discern, critically analyse and synthesise knowledge in complex creative practice settings.
Relates to: ULO4 - Formulate and apply an independent perspective through reflection and by acting on the informed critique of others.
Relates to: ULO4