There is no compulsory Residential School but an optional Weekend School in Armidale at mid-year is planned for 1998. Also tutoring is Dr N. Rattigan. Assessment will be by exercises, by an essay on a general topic and by a two-hour examination. Dr L. M. Rutherford. The unit introduces the student to the genre of the children's picture book, exploring the way in which pictures convey narrative information and may be read in conjunction with the verbal texts which accompany picture book images.
Pictures employ their own conventions of representation.
The unit introduces the major visual elements of picture book art and explores the contributions of visual information to storytelling. Fantasy literature, considered both as a genre and a mode, is another topic covered in this unit. Current explanations and theories of fantasy formalist, utopian, psychoanalytic, mythic, feminist approaches are introduced and applied to the reading of selected fantasy novels for younger readers. The unit takes a literary and cultural studies approach and does not canvass issues of curriculum development, child psychology, or the uses of children's books in the classroom. There are two lectures and one tutorial per week.