Graduate Diploma in Communication and Cultural Studies (Creative Writing)
ObjectivesThis course gives you the opportunity to develop skills in a variety of creative forms and styles. * Short fiction units will give you an understanding of the form of the short story and its possibilities and parameters. You’ll learn techniques and devices such as narration, character development, conflict, point of view and narrative structure. * In scriptwriting units you will focus on the development of short scripts in documentary and drama for film, television and theatre. * In poetry units, you’ll examine how aural structures, figurative language, imagery and metaphor make meaning. * You will explore recent debates in theories of narrative in narrative fiction units and learn to use narrative theory in the development of your own creative projects. * In writing for children units you’ll examine and discuss fiction writing for children with reference to established writers in literature and film. * Our long fiction units will provide you with an understanding of the key concepts involved in planning and carrying out long fiction projects
Entry requirementsA bachelor degree in a discipline other than Communication and Cultural Studies, or a Bachelor of Arts (Communication and Cultural Studies) or equivalent in a field other than creative writing.
Academic titleGraduate Diploma in Communication and Cultural Studies (Creative Writing)
Course descriptionCreative Writing Major (Grad Dip)
Introduction
This major allows students the opportunity to develop skills in a variety of creative forms and styles. A feature of this course is the Artist in Residence program, where professional artists contribute to the range of writing ideas and provide advice and support. Students also have the opportunity to give public readings of their works and to be published in a regularly produced magazine written and edited by students. The students of this course have been the recipients of many national and international awards.
Career opportunities
Graduates find employment across a wide variety of occupations and professions including the media, publishing and education where creative initiative and sound textual production skills are highly valued. Graduates may become novelists/authors, writers of short stories or script writers for plays, television and movies.
Course Structure Hrs/Wk Credit
Year 1
12129 v.4 Communication and Cultural Studies Graduate Diploma Seminar 511 3.0 25.0
12130 v.4 Communication and Cultural Studies Graduate Diploma Seminar 512 3.0 25.0
12131 v.4 Communication and Cultural Studies Graduate Diploma Seminar 513 3.0 25.0
12132 v.4 Communication and Cultural Studies Graduate Diploma Seminar 514 6.0 50.0
12133 v.4 Communication and Cultural Studies Graduate Diploma Seminar 515 6.0 50.0
303473 v.2 Communication and Cultural Studies Graduate Diploma Seminar 508 3.0 25.0 200.0