Creative Writing (B-ARTS_MAJOR_9)

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: 9 April 2025

Structure

100 credit points

This major requires the completion of:

25 credit points of Level 1 electives and Arts Discovery subjects including:
- A minimum of 12.5 credit points of Level 1 electives
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:

Please note: Students must undertake an Arts Discovery subject as part of the course requirements and the Arts Discovery subject can be counted in one major only. For this major, you will need to complete two Level 1 subjects.

If you are completing a double major the correct enrolment for this major at level 1 is: An Arts Discovery subject and one Level 1 Elective subject for the first major and two Level 1 Elective subjects for the second major.

Level 1 electives

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

Level 2 electives

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
		Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) Not available in 2025
CWRI20002	Short Fiction	Semester 1 (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 2025	12.5

Level 3 electives

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
CWRI30001	Novels	Semester 2 (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

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