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Creative Writing - ENGLW14043

Stream Summary

Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science

School: School of the Arts and Media

Contact: sam@unsw.edu.au

Program: 4043 - Social Work (Honours) / Arts

Award(s):

Bachelor of Arts (Major)

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Stream Outline

The major stream in Creative Writing provides students with a strong disciplinary base in creative writing and literary studies with interdisciplinary extensions in the direction of Film Studies, Media, Theatre and Performance Studies, and Music. Through core courses at levels 1, 2 and 3 students develop technical skills and creative knowledge in the discipline of Creative writing while at the same time fostering critical reading and analytical skills in the broader field of English literary studies. Electives in other areas of creative writing including writing for the screen, performing arts and journalism provide broader experience in a variety areas of creative and professional writing. Students completing the major will be equipped with the formal disciplinary strengths of literary studies, while they are encouraged through workshop-based courses to test their knowledge creatively. The major challenges students to combine formal and technical competence with their imaginative work in poetics, narratology, and more specialist modes of production.

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.