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Creative Non Fiction (CWRI20005)

Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)

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In this subject, students will be exposed to a rich and thrilling range of Creative Nonfiction – music, science, sport, technology, trauma, family, politics, more – on the road to developing and fine-tuning their own writing skills. Class discussions will tackle ethics and research/narrative techniques. Students will workshop their own writing and be asked to respond to other students’ written work. They will finish the course with an insight into top-class writers’ minds and techniques, and ideas on how to take their own writing to a higher plane.

Intended learning outcomes

On successful completion of the subject, students should be able to:

  • Devise, develop, draft and present substantial pieces of Creative Nonfiction.
  • Critically evaluate and interpret a wide array of Creative Nonfiction literature.
  • Provide detailed and constructive feedback on other students' creative work through the writing workshop approach to learning and practice.
  • Conceive, plan, and carry out extensive and multimodal research, including interviews and observation, as part of developing their Creative Nonfiction work.
  • Describe and deploy Creative Nonfiction narrative practices, as both readers and writers.
  • Discuss ethical questions related to the practice of Creative Nonfiction, and analyse the way in which their own work and that of other practitioners engages with those questions.

Generic skills

At the completion of this subject, students should gain the following generic skills:

  • The ability to use a range of techniques to tap creative ideas
  • The ability to plan feasible creative projects for a given time-frame and word length
  • The ability to use structure and style with economy and power across a range of genres.

Last updated: 10 June 2025