Creative Writing - ENGLW13522
Stream Summary
Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science
School: School of the Arts and Media
Contact: sam@unsw.edu.au
Program: 3522 - Commerce/Arts
Award(s):
Bachelor of Arts (Major)
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Stream Outline
The aims of the BA major in Creative writing are:
- to equip students with the critical knowledge and experience necessary to prove themselves as writers in any number of competitive situations, both professional and amateur.
- to foster the capacity to write in a variety of formats, and for a range of ends, in order to prepare them for the trials and demands of the various, interlocked worlds of publishing in the early twenty-first century.
- to develop an in-depth appreciation of the subtleties and technical specificities of written English.
- to fashion graduates who are confident and polished in their skills as writers, aware of the structural realities of the publishing industry, and able to position themselves intelligently in a competitive market.
Stream Structure
- 54 units of credit in Creative Writing courses
- The Level 1 core course
- One Prescribed Elective at Level 1
- The Level 2 core course
- At least two Prescribed Electives at Level 2
- The Level 3 core courses
- At least one Prescribed Elective at Level 3
- ARTS1010 Life of Words (6 UOC) Core
- ARTS1030 Introduction to English (6 UOC)
- ARTS1031 English:Early Modern to Modern (6 UOC)
- ARTS1060 Introduction to Film Studies (6 UOC)
- ARTS1121 Reading Performance (6 UOC)
- MDIA1004 News Reporting (6 UOC)
- ARTS2032 Creative Writing (6 UOC) Core
- ARTS2031 Australian Literature (6 UOC)
- ARTS2033 Poetry and Poetics (6 UOC)
- ARTS2035 American Literature (6 UOC)
- ARTS2036 Modernism (6 UOC)
- ARTS2037 Women's Writing (6 UOC)
- ARTS2038 Popular Fictions (6 UOC)
- ARTS2066 Writing for the Screen (6 UOC)
- ARTS2090 Publics and Publishing (6 UOC)
- ARTS2120 Writing for Performance (6 UOC)
- MDIA2003 Advanced Media Writing (6 UOC)
- ARTS3034 Advanced Creative Writing (6 UOC) Core
- ARTS3031 English Capstone (6 UOC) Core
- ARTS3050 Literature and the Environment (6 UOC)
- ARTS3051 Fiction Writing (6 UOC)