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

    Writing Therapy
  • Unit Code

    WRT2106
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ffion Mary MURPHY

Description

This unit explores the concept and practice of writing therapy and its relation to discourses of psychology, psychoanalysis and literature. Writing has sometimes been regarded as a symptom or cause of mental illness and pain as a source of creativity, but there is some evidence to suggest that writing improves physical and mental health, alleviates stress, contributes to self-development and helps people to cope with grief and trauma. Students engage in and critically reflect on various kinds of therapeutic writing.

Equivalent Rule

Equivalent to WRT3106. Replaces WRT3106.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Discuss key issues, research findings and organisations in the field of writing therapy.
  2. Identify, use and review a variety of writing methods and genres.
  3. Produce an original creative work drawing on specific conventions.
  4. Describe their own and other writers' literary strategies.

Unit Content

  1. Theories of narrative and poetry therapy.
  2. Therapeutic writing experiments.
  3. Writing therapy research.
  4. Writing skills and conventions.

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-campus: Seminars
Off-campus: Blackboard

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
ProjectCreative work and exegesis60%
Reflective PracticeCritical reflections40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectCreative work and exegesis60%
Reflective PracticeCritical reflections40%

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

    Writing Therapy
  • Unit Code

    WRT2106
  • Year

    2017
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ffion Mary MURPHY

Description

This unit explores the concept and practice of writing therapy and its relation to discourses of psychology, psychoanalysis and literature. Writing has sometimes been regarded as a symptom or cause of mental illness and pain as a source of creativity, but there is some evidence to suggest that writing improves physical and mental health, alleviates stress, contributes to self-development and helps people to cope with grief and trauma. Students engage in and critically reflect on various kinds of therapeutic writing.

Equivalent Rule

Equivalent to WRT3106. Replaces WRT3106.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Discuss key issues, research findings and organisations in the field of writing therapy.
  2. Identify, use and review a variety of writing methods and genres.
  3. Produce an original creative work drawing on specific conventions.
  4. Describe their own and other writers' literary strategies.

Unit Content

  1. Theories of narrative and poetry therapy.
  2. Therapeutic writing experiments.
  3. Writing therapy research.
  4. Writing skills and conventions.

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-campus: Seminars
Off-campus: Blackboard

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
ProjectCreative work and exegesis60%
Reflective PracticeCritical reflections40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectCreative work and exegesis60%
Reflective PracticeCritical reflections40%

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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