Creative Writing

Major/Minor/Specialisation !D22-AA-SPC+1010 (2015)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2015.

Year and Campus: 2015

Coordinator

Dr Grant Caldwell

Email: cal@unimelb.edu.au

Contact

Enquiries
Phone: 13 MELB (13 6352)
Email: 13MELB@unimelb.edu.au

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.

Learning Outcomes:

See program objectives

Structure & Available Subjects:

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

Subject Options:

Compulsory Subject

37.5 points

Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:
Semester 2
12.50

Elective Subjects

62.5 points

Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:
Semester 2
12.50
Semester 1
12.50
Semester 2
12.50
Semester 1
12.50
Semester 1
12.50
Links to further information: http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/
Related Course(s): Graduate Diploma in Arts

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