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Genealogies of Place (CWRI40009)

HonoursPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)

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In this subject students will engage with creative and intellectual concepts that deal with an understanding of place (and places) and its relationship to individuals, communities and cultural formations. These places may be physical, social or psychological, and can include "natural". landscapes, urban/industrial environments, the genealogies of family or place and the connections between memory and physical space. This subject asks students to engage with writings by novelists and poets in addition to non-fictional texts to stimulate their own creative writing project that will be developed and workshopped in the seminars. Students will explore the relationship between the creative process and the development of written and performative texts. On completion of the subject students will have produced a folio of writing that can include prose-fiction, poetry, performance/script or non-fiction.

Intended learning outcomes

On successful completion of this subject, students should have:



  • creatively engaged with texts that deal with the relationship between physical and natural landscapes;
  • creatively engaged with texts that deal with the relationship between the individual, family and communities;
  • reatively engaged with ideas dealing with social/political memory and place;
  • developed skills in creative writing that draw upon materials and concepts presented and discussed in seminars;
  • acquired a transportable set of interpretive skills;
  • developed their capacity for independent thinking; and
  • developed their ability to communicate ideas through creative writing.

Generic skills

At the completion of this subject, students should gain the following generic skills:

  • developed skills in creative writing that draw upon materials and concepts presented and discussed in seminars;
  • acquired a transportable set of interpretive skills;
  • developed their capacity for independent thinking; and
  • developed their ability to communicate ideas through creative writing.

Last updated: 1 July 2024