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Creative Writing
Graduate Diploma in ArtsSpecialisation (formal)Year: 2021
Creative Writing
Contact information
Coordinator
Dr Grant Caldwell
Currently enrolled students:
Future students:
Overview
This Program 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 potential 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.
Last updated: 3 May 2024
Structure
100 credit points
Duration: 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time
The Graduate Diploma in Arts in this area of specialisation requires:
- three compulsory subjects (37.5 points)
- elective subjects (62.5 points)
Total 100 points
Please note: students can only take 12.5 points of elective subjects at first-year level
Subject Options
Compulsory Subjects
37.5 points
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| CWRI30004 | Encounters with Writing | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CWRI40010 | Contemporary Eco-Fictions | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CWRI40014 | Writing Australia | Semester 2 (Online) |
12.5 |
Elective Subjects
62.5 points
Please note: students can only take 12.5 points of elective subjects at first-year level
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| CWRI10001 | Creative Writing: Ideas and Practice | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CWRI10003 | Creative Writing: Nonfiction, New Media | Not available in 2021 | 12.5 |
| CWRI20002 | Short Fiction | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CWRI20005 | Creative Non Fiction | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CWRI20007 | Poetry | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
| CWRI20009 | Writing for Screen | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CWRI20010 | Scripts for Contemporary Theatre | Not available in 2021 | 12.5 |
| CWRI20012 | Writing Identity and Difference | Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CWRI30001 | Novels | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CWRI30006 | Poetry and Poetics | Semester 1 (Online) |
12.5 |
| CWRI30013 | Life Writing | Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CWRI30014 | Advanced Screenwriting | Not available in 2021 | 12.5 |
| CWRI30015 | Writing Videogames and Live Performance | Not available in 2021 | 12.5 |
Links
http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/culture-communication
Last updated: 3 May 2024