ALL153 - Literature for Children and Young Adults
Unit details
| Year | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)* Trimester 3: Burwood (Melbourne), Online |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 1: Lenise Prater Trimester 3: Sue Chen |
| Prerequisite: | Nil |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | ALL253 |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 1-hour online seminar per week 1 x 2-hour on-campus seminar per week
NIKERI (CBD): 3 x 6-hour on-campus intensive (workshops/seminars) per trimester 8 x 1-hour online seminars per week for 8-weeks |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - online unit enrolment: | 1 x 1-hour online lecture per week 1 x 2-hour online seminar per week or approximately 2-hours of online learning tasks and discussions per week |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Note:Student enrolment quotas apply to this unit *Community Based Delivery (CBD): only for students of the National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute (located at the Waurn Ponds campus) | |
Content
Children learn about themselves and others from their families, their educational settings and from texts – the books, films and other media – they consume. Our focus in this unit is on how children’s texts position their readers, paying attention to the narrative strategies they use and the ideologies they promote. The unit provides an overview of children’s literature, its origins and its place within children’s culture and socialising practices. It engages with a wide range of genres and texts (picture book, novel, and screen) from a variety of cultural traditions. This first year unit introduces students to key concepts essential to the analysis of children’s texts.
Learning Outcomes
| ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Demonstrate understanding of the concepts of narrative, visual and screen theory and genre, and the broader research relating to the study of children’s texts | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Construct clear, logically-structured, grammatically correct written work, which observes the academic conventions of accurate citation and referencing of secondary sources | GLO2: Communication |
| ULO3 | Locate and access e-readings available on the unit site, and locate show judgement in the location and selection of appropriate scholarly material via the library and web, and use these materials in assessments as instructed | GLO3: Digital literacy |
| ULO4 | Perform close textual analysis of prose, visual and screen texts, using evidence from the primary text and secondary research to support interpretation | GLO4: Critical thinking |
| ULO5 | Work independently and take personal responsibility for meeting assignment deadlines or in compliance with Faculty rules applying to extensions | GLO6: Self-management |
| ULO6 | Think ethically about the various social and cultural contexts in which children's texts are produced and consumed | GLO8: Global citizenship |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1: Online exercises | 1200 words or equivalent | 30% | Week 4 |
| Assessment 2: Essay | 1600 words or equivalent | 40% | Week 8 |
| Assessment 3: Quiz | 1200 words or equivalent | 30% | Week 11 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for ALL153 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
Unit Fee Information
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