Fiction Writing - ARTS3051
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of the Arts and Media
Course Outline: School of the Arts and Media
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: 24 uoc in either the English stream or the Creative Writing stream including ARTS1010 or ARTS2032
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 specialisation: English
This Level 3 course provides students with the opportunity to develop work on a novel. Students undertaking this course will examine the poetics of the contemporary novel, exploring a variety of technical aspects essential to fiction, such as narrative structure, creation of character and the development of prose style. Students will read both novels and critical texts in order to deepen their understanding of the composition of the novel. Comparative and historical analysis will inform the development of student’s own creative practice. Students will have experimented with a range of writing genres in Level 1 and 2 Creative Writing courses. As a Level 3 course students will extend their writing skills by working on a sustained piece of prose fiction.