This is a shelf course. A shelf course comprises a number of modules related to this broad area of study. Each module is a separate semester of study in this area and is offered in rotation. You can study TWO modules but you cannot study the same module twice.
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Subject Area: English
This course can also be studied in the following specialisations: Creative Writing
Module: "Advanced Creative Writing: Docu-writing" (Semester 2, 2011)
This module investigates the possibilities of the recording or documenting voice through the students' own experiments with writing. It investigates how knowledge and memory are collected, stored and recovered. It will examine a range of documentary writing in different styles and genres including memoir, life writing, history, journalism and the essay. In rethinking the category of the documentary ‘real’ it will analyse the binaries of poetry versus history, fiction versus fact and literary versus non-literary. Students will develop their own topic which they will then research. In the course of the semester they explore this topic in a number of different writing genres. The module encourages students to experiment with writing hybrid genres such as creative non-fiction and docu-poetry.
Module: "Advanced Creative Writing: Writing Sydney"
This module offers final year students the opportunity to do research-led writing based on Sydney topics and themes. Using a range of research techniques (archival research, interviews, digital networking, use of recording and mobile phone technologies) students will gather original materials which will shape their own creative responses.
The module is an advanced creative writing course. Students are encouraged to carry out original research on Sydney as a locality. Lectures will deliver examples of literary and cultural studies of Sydney, the theory and practice of object-oriented writing, theories of topographic writing as a branch of nature writing, and understandings of ecological or non-human-centred writing.•
