Course

Writing Bodies - ARTS3011

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

School: School of the Arts and Media

Course Outline: School of the Arts and Media

Campus: Kensington Campus

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: 24 units of credit in the English or Creative Writing streams

CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

Subject Area: Creative Writing
This course can also be studied in the following specialisations: English; Dance Studies

This course investigates bodies as a focus for techniques of writing. It examines filmic, literary and theoretical texts, addressing issues such as the racialisation, gendering and intercorporeality of bodies. The literary texts include fiction, poetry and fictocriticism. The theoretical texts are central to the fictocritical format of the course. The course includes a range of creative writing exercises and workshops designed to encourage student experimentation with forms of writing in various media.

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