Genealogies of Place

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2009:

Usually admission to the postgraduate diploma or fourth year honours in English literary studies or creative writing.

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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In this subject students will engage with creative and intellectual concepts that deal with an understanding of place (and places) and its relationship to individuals, communities and cultural formations. These places may be physical, social or psychological, and can include 'natural' landscapes, urban/industrial environments, the genealogies of family or place and the connections between memory and physical space. This subject asks students to engage with writings by novelists and poets in addition to non-fictional texts to stimulate their own creative writing project that will be developed and workshopped in the seminars. Students will explore the relationship between the creative process and the development of written and performative texts. On completion of the subject students will have produced a folio of writing that can include prose-fiction, poetry, performance/script or non-fiction.

Written work of 5000 words 90% (due at the end of semester) and class participation 10%.

Assessment submitted late without an approved formal extension will be penalised at 2% per day. Students who fail to submit up to 2-weeks after the final due date without a formal extension and/or special consideration will receive a fail grade for the piece of assessment.

A subject reader will be available.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• have developed skills in Creative Writing that draw upon materials and concepts presented and discussed in seminars;

• have acquired a transportable set of interpretive skills;

• have developed their capacity for independent thinking;

• have developed their ability to communicate ideas through Creative Writing.