Modle C: Conflicting Perspectives

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Representation and Text

This module requires students to explore various representations of events, personalities or situations. They evaluate how medium of production, textual form, perspective and choice of language influence meaning. The study develops students understanding of the relationships between repersentation and meaning,

Each elective in this module requires the study of one perscribed text offering a representation of an event, personality or situation. Students are also required to supplement this study with texts of their own choosing which provide a variety of representations of that event, personality or situation. These texts are to be drawn from a variety of sources, in a range of genres and media.

Students explore the ways in which different media present information and ideas to understand how various textual forms and their media of production offer different versions and perspectives for a range of audiences and purposes.

Students develop a range of imaginiative, interpretaive, and analytical compositions that relate to different forms and media of representation. These compositions may be realised in a variety of forms and media.

Conflicting Perspectives

What is Conflict?

A state of disharmony, prolonged open fighting, opposing opinions often resulting in a distortion of events and negative feelings and emotions.

How is conflict represented in texts?

Conflict is created through characters, dialogue, timing, structure, settung, word choice and language techniques.

What is Perspective?

A personal view point or way of looking at something. It is personal and influenced by social norms, peer and family groups and media influence among other things.

To have conflicting perspectives there must be a clash of ideas!

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