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Story, Children and the Arts (EDUC20083)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 2
Overview
| Availability(Quotas apply) | Semester 2 |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
What was your favorite story as a child? What kinds of narrative adventures did you create through role-play, dance, music, painting, dressing up, puppetry? This subject examines how children engage in story and storytelling through the arts. It focuses on how artful, imaginative, and narrative experiences enrich and expand personal and social awareness, and connectedness. Students will explore story making and storytelling as expressive modes of communication and meaning making across a range of art forms, linked to theory. In practice-based arts workshops, they will investigate ways to create and make stories. Students will work individually and in groups to critique, compose, co-create and present stories suitable for young audiences drawing on a variety of multimodal texts such as: artworks, cultural artefacts, interactive picture books, film music, digital stories, scriptwriting, graphic novels, animation, theatre, dance, and zines. This subject is suitable for students with little formal arts or writing background.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Explain how children and young people make meaning from a range of texts
- Create visual, sonic and textual narratives, and determine the relationships between them and their audiences
- Outline and apply a range of symbolic and expressive systems in their story-making
- Critically reflect upon and analyse visual, sonic and narrative texts in and across cultural contexts
- Make an original visual, sonic and/or textual narrative for a specific audience
- Reflect upon their creative, imaginative and innovative story making processes.
Generic skills
This subject will assist students to develop the following set of transferable skills:
- Problem Solving
- Collaboration and Teamwork
- Social and Self Awareness
- Communication of knowledge in oral, written, creative and digital forms.
Last updated: 11 April 2024
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: 11 April 2024
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Essay - Story, Storytelling and Children
| Mid semester | 40% |
Group Project – An Interdisciplinary Digital Story 10-minute Presentation with Q&A (equivalent to 1200 words for each group member)
| End of semester | 30% |
Reflective Report - Reflections of Learning
| During the examination period | 30% |
Attendance Hurdle requirement: A minimum of 70% attendance at, or engagement with, all sessions identified as contact hours (may include lectures, tutorials, seminars and workshops, both synchronous and asynchronous) | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- Semester 2
Principal coordinator Prue Wales Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours (33 hours on campus classes and 3 hours online synchronous activities) Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 July 2024 to 20 October 2024 Last self-enrol date 2 August 2024 Census date 2 September 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 September 2024 Assessment period ends 15 November 2024 Semester 2 contact information
Time commitment details
170 hours
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Additional delivery details
Quota: 50
This subject has an enrolment quota. Selection is automated and based on the order in which students enrol. Your enrolment in this subject guarantees a space unless you withdraw.
If the subject is full, spaces may become available in the future as others withdraw. The only way to check this is by attempting to enrol. Please note that there are no waiting lists for this subject. As entry into this subject is based only on the order in which students enrol, special permission will not be offered to any students.
Last updated: 11 April 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Readings will be given out in class.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Breadth Track Creativity, the Arts and Young People - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Environments
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Production)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Science
- Links to additional information
Study Breadth in the Faculty of Education: https://education.unimelb.edu.au/study/breadth
- 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.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 11 April 2024