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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 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

    Writing Poetry

  • Unit Code

    WRT3107

  • Year

    2020

  • Enrolment Period

    1

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Marcella Kathleen POLAIN

Description

This unit will offer students the opportunity to develop an existing strength and interest in writing poetry. The work of established writers in the genre will be the starting point for workshops in which students will be able to explore a range of subjects and styles in the development of their own writing. The emphasis in this unit will be on free-verse form, contemporary Australian poets, and the development of independent writing practice.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify and explain pertinent historical, social, political and inter-cultural themes and issues relating to poetry.
  2. Generate a collection of original poems that demonstrate skills gained in the unit.
  3. Identify, select and employ relevant technical elements - in language, form and structure - in the production of own original poetry.
  4. Interrogate, challenge and defend the use of chosen techniques in others poetry.

Unit Content

  1. Discussion of selected themes, as well as formal, linguistic and stylistic issues, as they relate to poetry.
  2. Study of selected Australian and international poems.
  3. Group work and peer reviewing processes.
  4. Analysis and discussion of students' poetry.
  5. Sustained development of a reflective journal.
  6. Writing original poetry which demonstrates skills gained through the unit.

Learning Experience

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

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
PortfolioCompleted original poems 60%
PresentationOral presentation20%
ParticipationParticipation in class and small group discussion, exercises and feedback20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioCompleted original poems 60%
PresentationPresentation through Discussion Board 20%
ParticipationOnline participation20%

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

    Writing Poetry

  • Unit Code

    WRT3107

  • Year

    2020

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    2

  • Credit Points

    15

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Marcella Kathleen POLAIN

Description

This unit will offer students the opportunity to develop an existing strength and interest in writing poetry. The work of established writers in the genre will be the starting point for workshops in which students will be able to explore a range of subjects and styles in the development of their own writing. The emphasis in this unit will be on free-verse form, contemporary Australian poets, and the development of independent writing practice.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify and explain pertinent historical, social, political and inter-cultural themes and issues relating to poetry.
  2. Generate a collection of original poems that demonstrate skills gained in the unit.
  3. Identify, select and employ relevant technical elements - in language, form and structure - in the production of own original poetry.
  4. Interrogate, challenge and defend the use of chosen techniques in others’ poetry.

Unit Content

  1. Discussion of selected themes, as well as formal, linguistic and stylistic issues, as they relate to poetry.
  2. Study of selected Australian and international poems.
  3. Group work and peer reviewing processes.
  4. Analysis and discussion of students' poetry.
  5. Sustained development of a reflective journal.
  6. Writing original poetry which demonstrates skills gained through the unit.

Learning Experience

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

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
PortfolioCompleted original poems 60%
JournalAnalytical writing (journal)20%
PresentationIn class presentation20%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioCompleted original poems 60%
JournalAnalytical writing (Journal) 20%
PresentationOnline presentation20%

Core Reading(s)

  • Leonard, J. (2009). The Puncher and Wattmann anthology of Australian poetry. Glebe, NSW: Puncher and Wattmann. Retrieved from https://ecu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/504685429?databaseList=638

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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