Creative Writing

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 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, performance and writing for theatre and autobiography.

Creative writing is available as a major or a minor.

Major
Level 1

• Interdisciplinary Foundation Subject
• 106-105 Creative Writing: Ideas and Practice

Level 2

• 37.5 points from the Creative Writing level two subject list

Level 3

• The compulsory capstone subject Encounters with Writing
• and 25 points from the Creative Writing level three subject list.

Minor
75-point minor studies can be undertaken in specific genres (poetry, fiction, non-fiction, screenwriting, scriptwriting for theatre or performance).

Level 1

• Interdisciplinary Foundation Subject
• 106-105 Creative Writing: Ideas and Practice

• 25-points from the level two Creative Writing subjects listed.

• 25-points from the level three Creative Writing subjects listed.

The capstone subject is not available to students completing a minor or as breadth outside of Arts.

Level 1

Level 2

Level 3

Level 3 Capstone