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Young Adult Fiction (CWRI90009) // Further information
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 1
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, Scholastic Australia, 2009
Margo Lanagan, Sea Hearts, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 2012
David Levithan, How They Met and Other Stories, Text Publishing, Melbourne, 2014
There will also be readings available through the LMS electronic site for this subject.
Recommended texts and other resources
- P Hunt, Children’s Literature: the Development of Criticism, Routledge, 1990.
- K Reynolds, Radical Children’s Literature: Future Visions and Aesthetic Transformations in Juvenile Fiction, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- J Kristeva, Powers of Horror, Columbia University Press, 1982.
- Subject notes
This subject is offered every second year and alternates with CWRI90010 Writing for Children.
Admission to the Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing; the Bachelor of Arts Honours (Creative Writing); Postgraduate Certificate in Arts (Creative Writing); or Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Creative Writing) is required to take this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing Informal specialisation PD-ARTS Creative Writing Specialisation (formal) Graduate Diploma in Arts - Creative Writing Informal specialisation Graduate Diploma in Arts (Advanced) - Creative Writing Informal specialisation Creative Writing Specialisation (formal) Creative Writing Specialisation (formal) Graduate Certificate in Arts - Creative Writing - Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Additional information for this subject
Subject coordinator approval required
Last updated: 3 November 2022