Assignments

Collaboration

Assessment:

This is a 15 credit paper, 100 percent internally assessed. This is how the marks are divided up:

Title: Close Reading

Internal Students:
Description: Assignment 1: In-class Test
Worth: 15%
Sat: Workshop Session 3
Duration: One hour
Requirements: a pen & some paper

Distance Students:
Description: Assignment 1: Short writing exercise
Worth: 15%
Due in: By the end of week 3
Length: 500 words

• You will be given - or sent - a short (unseen) piece of travel writing, and asked to write an analysis of it.

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Title: Local Travel Assignment
Description: Assignment 2
Worth: 30%
Due in: By the end of week 7
Length: 2000 words

• Take public transport: bus / train / ferry to another part of your region (Auckland, for internal students; wherever you happen to be based, for distance students) – write a piece about your discoveries there.

2020 variant: Exploring Your Own Space Assignment
Description: Assignment 2
Worth: 30%
Due in: By the end of week 7
Length: 2000 words

• Think about the space – house, apartment, hostel room – you are staying in right now. Tell us about it: how you found your way there, or the story of one or more of the objects it contains, or the strains and social manoeuvring you have to endure to live there.

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Title: Final project
Description: Assignment 3
Worth: 55%
Due in: By the end of week 13
Length: 3500 words

• This should be a written text, in any of the genres or formats we’ve discussed during the semester (travel narrative / filmscript / radio script.

= 100 %

NB: All three assignments are compulsory. You do not have to have passed each of them in order to pass the course, but you do have to have at least handed them in for grading.

There will be a lot of demands made on your organizational abilities in this course. Think ahead, and make sure you always come to class prepared.

Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues under the Sea (1870)