Courses Handbook 2010

2590 (v.10) Moving Words 211


Area: Department of Communication and Cultural Studies
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 3.0
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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

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