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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Speculative Fiction
  • Unit Code

    CCC3109
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Aksel Oliver DADSWELL

Description

This unit will explore science fiction and fantasy literature from early texts inspired by scientific and industrial development to contemporary utopian and dystopian works. Students interested in working creatively in this field will have opportunity to study authors and write work in these genres and literature students will read a variety of new and old works against theoretical contexts.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Attribute contemporary themes and styles to key seminal works in science fiction, fantasy, utopian and dystopian literature.
  2. Comment on science fiction and fantasy texts and their role in critiquing contemporary culture.
  3. Compare these genres and the theoretical concepts that underpin their development.
  4. Research and develop theoretical and/or creative work which critically examines concepts within speculative genres.

Unit Content

  1. Examine the popularity of fantasy fiction and its major historic points, including themes such as the hero journey and a study of some key practitioners.
  2. Introduction to speculative fiction through close study of prose and techniques for writing in these genres.
  3. Study some dystopian works of fiction which seek to examine humanity through an exaggerated reality in order to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of how we live.
  4. The development of science fiction from early works inspired by scientific and industrial development and the social relevance of the genre at key historical moments, including themes such as the Other, space and time travel, alien worlds and new technology.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, films, writing workshops.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioSelection of developed writing and reading activities50%
ProjectEssay or creative work50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioSelection of developed writing and reading activities50%
ProjectEssay or creative work50%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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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.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Speculative Fiction
  • Unit Code

    CCC3109
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Aksel Oliver DADSWELL

Description

This unit will explore science fiction and fantasy literature from early texts inspired by scientific and industrial development to contemporary utopian and dystopian works. Students interested in working creatively in this field will have opportunity to study authors and write work in these genres and literature students will read a variety of new and old works against theoretical contexts.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Attribute contemporary themes and styles to key seminal works in science fiction, fantasy, utopian and dystopian literature.
  2. Comment on science fiction and fantasy texts and their role in critiquing contemporary culture.
  3. Compare these genres and the theoretical concepts that underpin their development.
  4. Research and develop theoretical and/or creative work which critically examines concepts within speculative genres.

Unit Content

  1. Examine the popularity of fantasy fiction and its major historic points, including themes such as the hero journey and a study of some key practitioners.
  2. Introduction to speculative fiction through close study of prose and techniques for writing in these genres.
  3. Study some dystopian works of fiction which seek to examine humanity through an exaggerated reality in order to better understand the strengths and weaknesses of how we live.
  4. The development of science fiction from early works inspired by scientific and industrial development and the social relevance of the genre at key historical moments, including themes such as the Other, space and time travel, alien worlds and new technology.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorials, films, writing workshops.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioSelection of developed writing and reading activities50%
ProjectEssay or creative work50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PortfolioSelection of developed writing and reading activities50%
ProjectEssay or creative work50%

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 Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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