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Creative Writing
Bachelor of ArtsMajorYear: 2020
Creative Writing
Contact information
Coordinator
Dr Amanda Johnson
Email: amandaj@unimelb.edu.au
Currently enrolled students:
Future students:
Overview
This major offers students the opportunity to explore their creative potential and to extend their work to avant-garde, cross-genre and experimental forms of writing. Students are encouraged to critically test the creative implications and the influence of contemporary theoretical and philosophical schools of thought in all forms of writing. Areas of specialisation include fiction, poetry, poetics, non-fiction, autobiography and writing for performance, theatre and screen.
Intended learning outcomes
Students who complete this major will:
- apply critical and creative skills to the identification, dramatisation and exploration of problems within complex changing social and cultural contexts;
- demonstrate a detailed knowledge of the conventions, traditions, genres, innovations and history of creative writing;
- apply independent approaches to creative practice and the knowledge related to these practices with intellectual honesty and a respect for ethical values;
- communicate effectively in a variety of oral, digital and written forms;
- confront and explore the relationships between diverse forms of knowledge and the cultural contexts that produce and support them;
- work effectively in a group to meet shared goals, taking into account individual and cultural differences.
Last updated: 18 December 2020
Structure
100 credit points
MAJOR
A major in Creative Writing consists of eight x 12.5-point subjects:
Level 1
Two subjects / 25 points
- CWRI10001 Creative Writing: Ideas and Practice and
- One Arts Foundation Subject (this can count towards major credit points for a single major). See Arts Foundation Structure page for further information.
Level 2
Three subjects /37.5 points
- Three level 2 Creative Writing subjects
Level 3
Three subjects /37.5 points
- Compulsory capstone subject CWRI30004 Encounters with Writing
- and two level 3 Creative Writing subjects
Total: 100 credit points
Note: Level 1 subjects must be successfully completed before progressing to level 2 subjects; level 2 subjects must be successfully completed before progressing to level 3 subjects. Only students completing a major in Creative Writing can enrol in the capstone subject.
Refer to the Bachelor of Arts Handbook page for further information.
MINOR
75-point minor studies can be undertaken in specific genres (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, screenwriting, scriptwriting for theatre or performance).
Level 1
- One Arts Foundation Subject
- CWRI10001 Creative Writing: Ideas and Practice
Level 2
- 25-points from the level two Creative Writing subjects listed.
Level 3
- 25-points from the level three Creative Writing subjects listed.
The capstone subject is not available to students completing a minor or as breadth outside of Arts.
Subject Options
Creative Writing: Level 1 Subject
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CWRI10001 | Creative Writing: Ideas and Practice | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Creative Writing: Level 2 Subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CWRI20005 | Creative Non Fiction | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CWRI20007 | Poetry | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CWRI20009 | Writing for Screen | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CWRI20002 | Short Fiction | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CWRI20010 | Scripts for Contemporary Theatre | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CWRI20012 | Writing Identity and Difference | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Creative Writing: Level 3 subjects
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CWRI30014 | Advanced Screenwriting | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CWRI30015 | Writing Videogames and Live Performance | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CWRI30006 | Poetry and Poetics | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CWRI30013 | Life Writing | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CWRI30001 | Novels | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 3 Capstone
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CWRI30004 | Encounters with Writing | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Links
http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/study/creative-writing
Last updated: 18 December 2020