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Story, Children and the Arts (EDUC20083)

Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)

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Overview

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This subject examines how story and storytelling engage children and young people. It focuses on how artful, imaginative and narrative experiences enrich and expand personal and social awareness, and connectedness. Students will explore story creating and story telling as expressive modes of communication and meaning-making through practice-based arts workshops linked to theory, and through site visits. Students, individually and in groups, will critique, compose/co-create and present stories suitable for young audiences drawing on a variety of texts such as artworks, picture books, film music, scriptwriting, graphic novels, and zines for a youth readership. This subject is suitable for students with little formal arts or writing background.

Intended learning outcomes

Students will demonstrate:

  • An understanding of how children and young people make meaning from a range of texts;
  • An enhanced understanding of visual, sonic and textual narrative, and the relationships between them and with audiences;
  • A capacity to understand and apply a range of symbolic and expressive systems;
  • An enhanced capacity to critically analyse a range of visual, sonic and narrative texts in and across cultural contexts;
  • An ability to make an original visual, sonic and/or textual narrative;
  • An enhanced capacity to create, imagine and innovate, and to reflect on these processes.

Last updated: 3 June 2023

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 June 2023

Assessment

DescriptionTimingPercentage

Essay - Story, Storytelling and Children

  • 1600 words
Mid semester40%

Negotiated Project

  • 2400 words (equivalent)
End of semester60%
Hurdle requirement: Minimum of 80% attendance at all scheduled lectures, tutorials, seminars and workshops.Throughout the teaching periodN/A

Last updated: 3 June 2023

Quotas apply to this subject

Dates & times

  • Semester 2
    Principal coordinatorPrue Wales
    Mode of deliveryOn Campus (Parkville)
    Contact hours36 hours
    Total time commitment170 hours
    Teaching period24 July 2023 to 22 October 2023
    Last self-enrol date 4 August 2023
    Census date31 August 2023
    Last date to withdraw without fail22 September 2023
    Assessment period ends17 November 2023

    Semester 2 contact information

    prue.wales@unimelb.edu.au

Time commitment details

170 hours

What do these dates mean

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    - Student Learning Entitlement. This applies to all students enrolled in a Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP).
    - Completion rate. Students who started their course from 2022 and are in a CSP or receiving a HELP Loan (eg FEE-HELP) must meet the completion rate to continue to receive Commonwealth Support for that course.

Subjects withdrawn after the census date (including up to the ‘last day to withdraw without fail’) count toward the Student Learning Entitlement, and as a fail toward the completion rate, unless there are approved ‘special circumstances’.

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: 3 June 2023

Further information

Last updated: 3 June 2023