Course description
Specialisation Requirements:
* 12.5 points at first year level
* 37.5 points at second/third year level
First year subject
Subject Semester Credit Points
106-105 Creative Writing: Ideas and Practice
This subject focuses on the creative process of shorter literary work, from the first idea through the development, editing and presentation, including the identification of sources, and choice of style and form. Students will be encouraged to attemp... Semester 1 12.50
Second year subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
106-202 Short Fiction
In this subject students will explore principles of the craft and theory of writing short narrative fiction. Students will read a variety of fiction texts from the beginning of the modernist era to contemporary fiction, ranging from Gogol to Chekhov,... Semester 2 12.50
106-235 Creative Non Fiction
This subject asks students to develop their own non-fiction writing, short or longer, through the study of course materials, through class discussions, workshop sessions and submission of draft material. The topics dealt with in this subject will inc... Semester 1 12.50
106-236 Script for Performance
This subject is designed to give writing students the chance to reflect upon, experiment with, and enhance the performative potential of their writing. Through seminars on performance studies, aspects of performance writing and practice, and in works... Semester 1 12.50
106-237 Poetry
This subject is an introduction to a range of poetic forms. Students will read poetry from various periods and cultures, with an emphasis on 20th century contemporary poetry. Semester 1 12.50
Third year subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
106-238 Experimental Fiction
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-310 Novels
This subject is designed to help students conceive, research and begin the writing of a novel, and to articulate an understanding of contemporary novels. It will introduce students to theoretical and historical approaches to the understanding and pra... Semester 1 12.50
106-311 Travel, Landscape and Place
This subject will introduce students to a range of genres that deal with creative writing and its historical and contemporary relationship to travel, landscape and place writing. The subject defines both 'travel' and 'place' withi... Semester 2 12.50
106-362 Encounters with Writing
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-363 Writing For Theatre
This subject comprises a detailed study of the principles and craft of theatre writing focussing on the production of an original play/script. A selection of theatre scripts, in various styles will be studied in conjunction with relevant critical and... Semester 2 12.50
106-364 Poetry and Poetics
Students in this subject will inquire into a wide range of traditional and contemporary stylistic practices in poetry and poetics. Students will analyse and present discussions on a variety of poetic texts and recent works on poetics, before applying... Semester 2 12.50
106-244 Writing for Screen
In this subject students will be introduced to the history of screenwriting and the principles of the craft of writing scripts for screen. Students will read and respond to a variety of scripts written for or adapted to screen. Students will also be ... Semester 2 12.50
106-247 Reading Australian Writing
This subject involves a study of recent Australian literary works selected from a range off genres. The approach will include discussion of ways of reading, and also creative responses to the selected texts. Students will read one significant work in... Semester 1 12.50
106-365 Diaries/Journals and Autobiography
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
106-366 Writing Through Character
In this subject students will examine practices of character construction in a range of forms, including fiction and script. Analysis will focus on various theories of subjectivity and representation, and also how the dynamics of monologue, dialogue ... Semester 1 12.50
