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IAS112 - Creative Practice in a Digital Context

2025

Sector

Higher Education

Discipline

Literary Studies

Credit Points

Equivalent Units

(LIT103)

Prerequisites

Incompatible

Assumed Knowledge

Unit Description

This unit introduces students to elementary techniques for cultivating their own literary creativity. In developing this creativity, students learn to explore and use some simple, online tools for generating works of creative, artistic expression in response to a procedural constraint. Producing a weekly creative piece, students will learn basic ideas about aesthetics and will engage in productive, meaningful discussions about these exercises, assessing the merits of the work produced by both themselves and their classmates. The unit presumes that writers learn by doing: hence, dedicated creation and editorial revision constitute an important component of this unit.

Unit Learning Outcomes

1.	Apply fundamental principles of aesthetics to assess creativity.
2.	Identify conventions used in varied genres of art.
3.	Analyse and apply strategies in cultivating a creative literary work.
4.	Apply basic on-line tools to make creative, artistic works.
5.	Write using language creatively to achieve a poetic effect.

Assessment Overview

	Assessment Task	Value (of total mark)	Related Learning Outcome/s
1.	Journal (10 x 100 words)	10%	1 - Apply fundamental principles of aesthetics to assess creativity. 2 - Identify conventions used in varied genres of art. 3 - Analyse and apply strategies in cultivating a creative literary work. 4 - Apply basic on-line tools to make creative, artistic works.
2.	Tutorial Exercises (2,000 words)	40%	1 - Apply fundamental principles of aesthetics to assess creativity. 2 - Identify conventions used in varied genres of art. 5 - Write using language creatively to achieve a poetic effect.
3.	Peer-Review (750 words)	20%	3 - Analyse and apply strategies in cultivating a creative literary work. 4 - Apply basic on-line tools to make creative, artistic works.
4.	Portfolio (1,500 words)	30%	1 - Apply fundamental principles of aesthetics to assess creativity. 2 - Identify conventions used in varied genres of art. 3 - Analyse and apply strategies in cultivating a creative literary work. 4 - Apply basic on-line tools to make creative, artistic works. 5 - Write using language creatively to achieve a poetic effect.

Unit Availability

Year	Semester	Att Mode	Location	Learning Method	Timetable*
2025	Semester 2	Internal	Casuarina Campus	OLR
2025	Semester 2	External	External Studies	OLR

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OLR: Internet access is required for this unit as students are required to access study materials provided on-line through Learnline. Please log into Learnline on the first day of each teaching period. For more information about Learnline, please click here.

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