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The Art & Practice of the Personal Essay (MULT90044)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 6.25Dual-Delivery (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
July
Overview
Availability | July - Dual-Delivery |
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Fees | Look up fees |
In this 12-hour seminar series students will read and discuss writing that explores complex ideas and issues in personal, engaging, and creative ways. These seminars will examine the rhetorical, narrative, and poetic strategies of the personal essay as a contribution to public intellectual discourse, as well as the kinds of occasions that give rise to the essay (personal crises, social issues, shifts in societal sensibility, ethical dilemmas). Some essayists we might read: Montaigne, Zadie Smith, M. J. Hyland, Helen Garner, Annie Dillard, Joan Didion, David Foster Wallace. Possible text: Best Australian Essays 2016 (Black Inc). Most reading material will be available electronically. Students will draft and workshop their own creative writing during the seminar sessions. This subject is relevant to humanities researchers directly, but could be useful to science and social science researchers who wish to explore and extend their prose techniques.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- show enhanced knowledge of the topic or area of scholarship taught in the module;
- have a grasp of techniques and skills required to reflect upon their own research work in relation to the content of the module; and
- engage with relevant leading-edge research in Arts today.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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One essay, due within four weeks of completion of teaching
| 4 Weeks after the end of teaching | 100% |
Hurdle requirement: Students are required to attend a minimum of 80% of classes in order to pass this subject. | During the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- July
Coordinator Kevin Brophy Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours Total 12 hours – 6 x 2 hour seminars, delivered intensively over six weeks. Total time commitment 85 hours Teaching period 26 July 2021 to 3 September 2021 Last self-enrol date 3 August 2021 Census date 6 August 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 27 August 2021 Assessment period ends 17 September 2021 July contact information
Time commitment details
85 Hours
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Doctor of Philosophy - Arts Course Ph.D.- Arts - Links to additional information
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Additional information for this subject
Subject coordinator approval required
Last updated: 3 November 2022