COMMS 205

Writing: Concept and Craft

Please note: this is archived course information from 2017 for COMMS 205.

Description

An exploration of written communication which connects writing as an object of analysis and critique to writing as a multi-faceted craft. Since writing systems, materials and tools create the worlds we live in, the course conceptualises the relation between world and word, image and text, technology and body, and addresses cultural, critical and digital literacies that organise lived experience.

Students will develop an expanded understanding of what writing ‘is’ and the forms that it takes, understand the communication of writing as a function of its technological form, grasp the purpose of a text, its audience and the case it makes, and be able to contextualise the study of literary objects.

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Availability 2017

Not taught in 2017

Lecturer(s)

TBA

Points

COMMS 205: 15 points

Prerequisites

COMMS 100 or FTVMS 100, and 15 points from COMMS 104, FTVMS 110, ENGLISH 121

Restrictions

ENGLISH 105, 257, 363