| Semester 1, 2023 Toowoomba On-campus | |
| Units : | 1 |
| School or Department : | School of Humanities & Communication |
| Grading basis : | Graded |
| Course fee schedule : | /current-students/administration/fees/fee-schedules |
Staffing
Course Coordinator:
Overview
This course asks the question, how do stories and storytelling influence how we view ourselves and the contexts within which we operate? The ability to understand create and deconstruct how stories are used to communicate and promote powerful ideas is a much sought-after skill. Being able to critically read stories as mechanisms of power and control is required in multiple roles and professions.
Through a range of discipline perspectives, this course will examine how stories and the act of storying can influence the process of how we conceptualise and narrate our environment, our identities and ourselves. This course will centre around key questions: why do we tell stories; what stories do we tell; and what is the impact of these stories; and who controls the stories?
Your learning in this course allows you to develop specific program capabilities - the ability to critically evaluate multiple sources of evidence, develop your own individual viewpoint, and applying relevant theories to researching, planning, and achieving effective solutions to complex problems.
Course learning outcomes
On completion of this course students should be able to:
- trace how stories and storytelling influence how we produce and reproduce ourselves and our world;
- identify ways in which stories are constructed and interpreted across the disciplines;
- examine how stories are used to communicate powerful ideas;
- collaborate with other students to construct a story for a specific purpose and across discipline contexts.
Topics
| Description | Weighting(%) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Identity | 20.00 |
| 2. | Belonging | 20.00 |
| 3. | Life Writing | 15.00 |
| 4. | Folklore & Myth | 15.00 |
| 5. | Oral vs Written | 15.00 |
| 6. | Song as Story | 15.00 |
Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed
Student workload expectations
To do well in this subject, students are expected to commit approximately 10 hours per week including class contact hours, independent study, and all assessment tasks. If you are undertaking additional activities, which may include placements and residential schools, the weekly workload hours may vary.
Assessment details
| Description | Group Assessment |
Weighting (%) | Course learning outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Quiz | No | 10 | 1 |
| Reflection (personal/clinical) | No | 20 | 1,2 |
| Case 精东传媒app | No | 40 | 3 |
| Presentation (ind, grp, mltmd) | Yes | 30 | 4 |