Genealogies of Place

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2010:

In this subject students will engage with creative and intellectual concepts that deal with an understanding of place (and places) and its relationship to individuals, communities and cultural formations. These places may be physical, social or psychological, and can include "natural" landscapes, urban/industrial environments, the genealogies of family or place and the connections between memory and physical space. This subject asks students to engage with writings by novelists and poets in addition to non-fictional texts to stimulate their own creative writing project that will be developed and workshopped in the seminars. Students will explore the relationship between the creative process and the development of written and performative texts. On completion of the subject students will have produced a folio of writing that can include prose-fiction, poetry, performance/script or non-fiction.

As a result of attendance at scheduled workshops, participation in planned activities and discussion, and timely completion of essays and assignments, students enrolled in this subject will acquire skills in the following areas:

• will have creatively engaged with texts that deal with the relationship between physical and natural landscapes;
• will have creatively engaged with texts that deal with the relationship between the individual, family and communities;
• will have creatively engaged with ideas dealing with social/political memory and place;
• will have developed skills in creative writing that draw upon materials and concepts presented and discussed in seminars;
• will have acquired a transportable set of interpretive skills;
• will have developed their capacity for independent thinking; and
• will have developed their ability to communicate ideas through creative writing.

Written work of 5000 words 90% (due at the end of semester) and class participation 10%.

Assessment submitted late without an approved formal extension will be penalised at 2% per day. Students who fail to submit up to 2-weeks after the final due date without a formal extension and/or special consideration will receive a fail grade for the piece of assessment.

A subject reader will be available.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• have developed skills in creative writing that draw upon materials and concepts presented and discussed in seminars;

• have acquired a transportable set of interpretive skills;

• have developed their capacity for independent thinking; and

• have developed their ability to communicate ideas through creative writing.