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Creative Writing
Bachelor of ArtsMajorYear: 2023
Creative Writing
Contact information
Coordinator
Associate Professor Eddie Paterson
Email: eddiep@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
On completion of this major, students should be able to:
- 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: 3 May 2024
Structure
100 credit points
This major requires the completion of:
- 25 credit points of Level 1 subjects, comprising of either:
-
12.5 credit points of Level 1 electives and 12.5 credit points of Arts Discovery (for a single major)
OR
25 credit points of Level 1 electives (for a double major)
- 37.5 credit points of Level 2 electives
- 12.5 credit points of Level 3 Capstone Subjects
- 25 credit points of Level 3 electives
*Notes:
Students must undertake the Arts Discovery subject as part of the course requirements and the Arts Discovery can be counted in one major only. For this major, you will need to complete two Level 1 subjects.
If you are completing a single major the correct enrolment for this major at level 1 is: The Arts Discovery subject and One Level 1 elective subject.
If you are completing a double major the correct enrolment for this major at level 1 is: The Arts Discovery subject and One Level 1 Elective subject OR Two Level 1 Elective subjects.
Level 1 electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CWRI10001 | Creative Writing: Ideas and Practice | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CWRI10003 | Creative Writing: Nonfiction, New Media | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 2 electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CWRI20002 | Short Fiction | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
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 |
CWRI20010 | Scripts for Contemporary Theatre | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CWRI20012 | Writing Identity and Difference | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 3 electives
Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CWRI30001 | Novels | Semester 2 (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 |
CWRI30014 | Advanced Screenwriting | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
CWRI30015 | Writing Videogames and Live Performance | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Level 3 Capstone Subject
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: 3 May 2024