School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Storytelling and Meaning
  • Unit Code

    SAH1250
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Nicola KAYE

Description

Stories, and how we tell them, matter. Cultures make meaning and construct their worlds through stories of origins, places and encounters. In this unit students examine a range of spoken, written and visual narratives to identify and evaluate conventions and effects, and the beliefs and values underpinning them – from Aboriginal Australian oral traditions, which locate story within the land, to listening, observation, archival research, textual analysis, imagination and experimentation. They also explore ways that methods convey narrative through textual, visual, film or interactive media. Students apply knowledge gained from interdisciplinary analysis, research and discussion to either critically analyse an existing narrative or develop a new one, e.g. site-specific artwork, artist book, graphic novel, broadcast, film, campaign or literary fiction.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify and explain a range of narrative styles, structures and conventions, and the practical, historical and theoretical aspects of narrative.
  2. Analyse the role of human emotions, values and beliefs in the creation of narratives.
  3. Evaluate ways that meanings and effects are produced by selected rhetorical and technical devices, as well as by single stories, plural stories and counter-stories.
  4. Produce an original narrative or an original interpretation of an existing narrative relevant to a selected discipline.
  5. Explain their own research aims, methods and outcomes.

Unit Content

  1. Diverse spoken, written and visual fiction and nonfiction narratives.
  2. Sources of information and ideas including galleries, archives, monuments, landscapes, waterways, oral histories, media, academic literature and political communications.
  3. Theories about narrative.
  4. Practical and technical strategies for narrative production.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 2 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 1 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationGroup presentation20%
ParticipationReflective Journal 30%
ProjectProposal, plus analytical or creative project 50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationGroup presentation 20%
ParticipationReflective Journal 30%
ProjectProposal, plus analytical or creative project 50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Storytelling and Meaning
  • Unit Code

    SAH1250
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Nicola KAYE

Description

Stories, and how we tell them, matter. Cultures make meaning and construct their worlds through stories of origins, places and encounters. In this unit students examine a range of spoken, written and visual narratives to identify and evaluate conventions and effects, and the beliefs and values underpinning them – from Aboriginal Australian oral traditions, which locate story within the land, to listening, observation, archival research, textual analysis, imagination and experimentation. They also explore ways that methods convey narrative through textual, visual, film or interactive media. Students apply knowledge gained from interdisciplinary analysis, research and discussion to either critically analyse an existing narrative or develop a new one, e.g. site-specific artwork, artist book, graphic novel, broadcast, film, campaign or literary fiction.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify and explain a range of narrative styles, structures and conventions, and the practical, historical and theoretical aspects of narrative.
  2. Analyse the role of human emotions, values and beliefs in the creation of narratives.
  3. Evaluate ways that meanings and effects are produced by selected rhetorical and technical devices, as well as by single stories, plural stories and counter-stories.
  4. Produce an original narrative or an original interpretation of an existing narrative relevant to a selected discipline.
  5. Explain their own research aims, methods and outcomes.

Unit Content

  1. Diverse spoken, written and visual fiction and nonfiction narratives.
  2. Sources of information and ideas including galleries, archives, monuments, landscapes, waterways, oral histories, media, academic literature and political communications.
  3. Theories about narrative.
  4. Practical and technical strategies for narrative production.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 2 hour lectureNot Offered
Semester 2Not Offered13 x 1 hour tutorialNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationGroup presentation20%
ParticipationReflective Journal 30%
ProjectProposal, plus analytical or creative project 50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationGroup presentation 20%
ParticipationReflective Journal 30%
ProjectProposal, plus analytical or creative project 50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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