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.

  • Unit Title

    Narrative and Film
  • Unit Code

    CCC3211
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Vahri Gae MCKENZIE

Description

This unit investigates diverse narrative strategies used within particular films in conjunction with the works of literature from which they have been adapted. It explores representations of ethnicity, class, gender and place in a broad conceptual framework of cultural studies. The unit also examines the structural process of adapting a literary text to film in the context of international and Australian film industries.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically evaluate how issues of ethnicity, class, gender and place are represented through various narrative strategies.
  2. Demonstrate an analytic understanding of different theoretical as well as popular responses to film and the novel.
  3. Identify major themes and ideas in the texts from a range of theoretical narrative perspectives.

Unit Content

  1. Cultural representations as expressed in literature and cinema.
  2. Narrative differences between literature and film.
  3. Overview of the range of film and literary genres.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Weekly film screenings, lectures and seminars.

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
PresentationPresentation30%
ExerciseFilm analysis and narrative strategies critical exercise30%
EssayMajor essay40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationPresentation30%
ExerciseFilm analysis and narrative strategies critical essay30%
EssayMajor essay40%

Core Reading(s)

  • Dick, P. K. (2006). A scanner darkly. New York, NY: Vintage.
  • Coetzee, J. M. (2010). Disgrace. New York, NY: Vintage Classics.
  • Shakespeare, W. (2008). Romeo and Juliet: The Oxford Shakespeare. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
  • Jolley, E. (2007). The well. Ringwood, Australia: Penguin Books.

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.

  • Unit Title

    Narrative and Film
  • Unit Code

    CCC3211
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Vahri Gae MCKENZIE

Description

This unit investigates diverse narrative strategies used within particular films in conjunction with the works of literature from which they have been adapted. It explores representations of ethnicity, class, gender and place in a broad conceptual framework of cultural studies. The unit also examines the structural process of adapting a literary text to film in the context of international and Australian film industries.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Critically evaluate how issues of ethnicity, class, gender and place are represented through various narrative strategies.
  2. Demonstrate an analytic understanding of different theoretical as well as popular responses to film and the novel.
  3. Identify major themes and ideas in the texts from a range of theoretical narrative perspectives.

Unit Content

  1. Cultural representations as expressed in literature and cinema.
  2. Narrative differences between literature and film.
  3. Overview of the range of film and literary genres.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Weekly film screenings, lectures and seminars.

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
PresentationPresentation30%
ExerciseFilm analysis and narrative strategies critical exercise30%
EssayMajor essay40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationPresentation30%
ExerciseFilm analysis and narrative strategies critical essay30%
EssayMajor essay40%

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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