UNSW Handbook Course - English 1A: Writing the Present, Imagining the Future

English 1A: Writing the Present, Imagining the Future - ZHSS1101


	Faculty: UNSW@ADFA (Australian Defence Force Academy)
	School: School of Humanities and Social Sciences @ ADFA
	Course Outline: https://gateway.unsw.adfa.edu.au/isas/current_students/outlines/index.html
	Campus: University College Campus
	Career: Undergraduate
	Units of Credit: 6
	EFTSL: 0.125 (more info)
	Contact Hours per Week: 3
	Fee Band: 1 (more info)
	Further Information: See Class Timetable

Description

This course explores contemporary writing and media. Understanding the present and speculation about the future are its dual emphases. You will study science fiction and fantasy, poems, film, newspapers and television. You will learn how to critically evaluate a range of material from the newspaper article and television news, to the essay, the story and the poem. You will develop an appreciation of the accepted conventions associated with each form, and the ways that these conventions organise our understanding of the material and engage difference audiences. You will develop your skills in creative and critical writing. The course will include such works as George Orwell's 1984 (book and film), Iain M Banks's The State of the Art and an anthology of poems.

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