Creative Writing

Major/Minor/Specialisation !D22-AA-SPC+1010 (2013)

Note: This is an archived Handbook entry from 2013.

Year and Campus: 2013

Coordinator

Dr Grant Caldwell

Email: cal@unimelb.edu.au

Contact

The Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Email: arts-gradstudies@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, performance and writing for theatre and autobiography.
Objectives:

See program objectives
Structure & Available Subjects:

A specialisation in Creative Writing in the Graduate Diploma of Arts consists of:


Level 1

  • one level one subject (12.5 points)


Level 2

  • 3 level two subjects (37.5 points)


Level 3

  • The compulsory subject Encounters with Writing (12.5 points)
  • and 37.5 points from the Creative Writing level three subject list.


Total 100 points
Subject Options:

Level 1 Subject

12.5 points

Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:

Level 2 Subjects

37.5 points

Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:
Not offered in 2013
12.50
Not offered in 2013
12.50
Not offered in 2013
12.50
Not offered in 2013
12.50
Not offered in 2013
12.50

Compulsory Subject

12.5 points

Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:
Not offered in 2013
12.50

Level 3 Subjects

37.5 points

Subject
Study Period Commencement:
Credit Points:
Not offered in 2013
12.50
Not offered in 2013
12.50
Not offered in 2013
12.50
Not offered in 2013
12.50
Not offered in 2013
12.50
Links to further information: http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/
Related Course(s): Graduate Diploma in Arts

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