James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2004

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BR1224:03

Critical Literacy: Text Analysis

Townsville, Cairns, External

HECS Band 1

52 hours lectures/workshops. Semester 2.

Available to Tertiary Access Course students.

Staff:

Ms L MacKay (Townsville campus);

Ms E Ignjic (Cairns campus).

Students are introduced to ways of analysing texts so that they gain control of linguistic and semiotic codes used in them. Advanced analytical skills will enable students to expose the underlying ideologies and assumptions upon which they operate. Possibilities for alternative readings and writings will be encouragd. A range of documents from the media and popular culture, public everyday texts and transcripts of talk will be integrated for analysis.

Learning Objectives:

reflecton how texts are constructed by identifying techniques of bias, persuasion, informal logic and statistics as they are used in a range of print and visual texts;

engage with information by writing critiques of set and individually chosen texts, showing underlying sructures and devices that construct and/or repress meaning;

critically review a range of texts to expost `underlying assumptions' and versions of reality presented.

Assessment by text analysis review (30%); seminar presentation (30%); major essay (40%).