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Description

This unit is designed to provide students with opportunities to hone their skills as storytellers with a focus on travel narrative, and to foster an understanding and appreciation of the theoretical issues associated with travel and travel writing. As this unit recognises that a writer can draw on local as well as foreign places to construct a sound travel narrative, it is offered to students regardless of how much they have travelled.

Assessment

Research essay 30%

Two original travel narratives 60%

Class participation: contribution to class discussion, reading analysis & workshopping process 10%

Other Details

Offered in: 2010, 2011, 2012
Current Campus: Burwood (Melbourne), External
Levels: Postgraduate
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