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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

311895 (v.1) Writing Humour 321

Note

Tuition Patterns

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.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: Department of Communication and Cultural Studies
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
Lecture: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Equivalent(s): 314032 (v.1) PWP321 Writing Humour
Syllabus: This unit examines issues in the theory and practice of humour writing. You will engage critically and creatively with a range of different genres, styles and publication contexts of humour writing. Topics covered include parody, irony, anecdote, political satire, domestic humour, grotesque and absurd humour, humour as investigative reporting, stand up comedy, stunt comedy, joke writing, humour writing and the internet, humour writing in cross cultural contexts, humour writing and gender, humour in the workplace.
Field of Education: 100700 Communication and Media Studies (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

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