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Creative Writing
Graduate Diploma in ArtsSpecialisation (formal)Year: 2024
Creative Writing
Contact information
Coordinator
Associate Professor Maria Tumarkin
Email: m.tumarkin@unimelb.edu.au
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.
Intended learning outcomes
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Last updated: 27 August 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 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CWRI40010 | Environmental Writing | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CWRI40014 | Writing Australia | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
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: Poetry and Fiction | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CWRI10003 | Creative Nonfiction & Multimodal Writing | Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| 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 | Not available in 2024 | 12.5 |
| CWRI30001 | Novels | Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) |
12.5 |
| CWRI30006 | Poetry and Poetics of Writing Back | Semester 2 (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 |
Links
http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/culture-communication
Last updated: 27 August 2024