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Unit of Study LAWS2068 - Borders and Boundaries: Writing About Family in the 21st century (2021)

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    This is an intensive unit taught on-campus/online over 4 days. Class times and room details will be provided on the School of Law and Justice website and posted to the learning site. Students must be able to commit to the delivery mode before enrolling in this unit.

Unit description

Introduces students to the craft of writing about family. Issues such as boundaries, sexuality, and motive are explored. Students develop their writing skills and understanding of family context and its impact on the socio-political self.

Unit content

Topic 1:  Family and the Oedipus myth. Types of family (nuclear, non-normative, non-procreative).

Topic 2:  Translating experience into text. Looking and memoir, motive and record. Influence on sexuality.

Topic 3:   Interrogation of works about family as written in other cultures.

Topic 4:   Writing about self in family. Complexity of relationship, shaping of self. Testing borders and boundaries.

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Not currently available in 2021

Learning outcomes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

discuss the definitions of family in 21st century

identify and deconstruct motives for writing about family

describe the family constellation, social context and the impact it has on growth and development