Courses Handbook 2010

2590 (v.10) Moving Words 211


Area: Department of Communication and Cultural Studies
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
** The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline. **
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Syllabus (HB): The study of poetry as a genre, emphasising various forms- lyric, narrative and dramatic. Theory, structures and history of the genre are studied through the reading of poetic texts. The relationship of the genre to larger processes of cultural change isalso examined along with the poetic in relation to culture theories of the poetic. Students will also explore how poetry mines the resources of language- grammar, syntax, rhetoric- in order to communicate in complex ways and apply these techniques to their own writing.
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Field of Education: 091500 Language and Literature (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Informational
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2010 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

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Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

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