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: CWRI30004 Encounters with Writing Semester 2 12.50 CWRI40010 Contemporary Fictions Semester 1 12.50 CWRI40014 Writing Australia Semester 2 12.50 Elective Subjects 62.5 points Subject Study Period Commencement: Credit Points: CWRI10001 Creative Writing: Ideas and Practice Semester 1 12.50 CWRI20002 Short Fiction Semester 2 12.50 CWRI20005 Creative Non Fiction Semester 1 12.50 CWRI20006 Script for Performance Semester 1 12.50 CWRI20007 Poetry Semester 1 12.50 CWRI20009 Writing for Screen Semester 2 12.50 CWRI30001 Novels Semester 1 12.50 CWRI30005 Writing For Theatre Semester 2 12.50 CWRI30006 Poetry and Poetics Semester 1 12.50 CWRI30013 Biography and Autobiography Semester 2 12.50 CWRI30014 Advanced Screenwriting 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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