Creative Writing - CRWTW13403
Stream Summary
Faculty: ARTSC - Faculty of Arts&Social Science
School: School of the Arts and Media
Contact: sam@unsw.edu.au
Program: 3403 - Arts
Award(s):
Bachelor of Arts (Major)
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Stream Outline
This stream structure is for students commencing prior to 2016.
Students commencing from 2016 should refer to the relevant stream version for their program. Please click here for a complete list of programs in which Creative Writing can be studied.
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:
Students commencing from 2016 should refer to the relevant stream version for their program. Please click here for a complete list of programs in which Creative Writing can be studied.
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.
Stream Structure
A student who wishes to gain a major stream in Creative Writing must complete the following:
- 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 coursess
- At least one Prescribed Elective at Level 3
Level 1
- ARTS1010 Life of Words (6 UOC) Core
Prescribed electives
Level 2
- ARTS2020 Creative Writing (6 UOC) Core
Prescribed electives
- 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)
- ARTS2120 Writing for Performance (6 UOC)
- ARTS2126 Reviewing the Arts (6 UOC)
- MDIA2010 Serious Games (6 UOC)
Level 3
- ARTS3023 Fiction Writing (6 UOC) Core
- ARTS3025 Advanced Creative Writing (6 UOC) Core
Prescribed electives
- ARTS3021 Creative Writing Internship (6 UOC)
- ARTS3022 Narrative (6 UOC)
- ARTS3024 Writing Bodies (6 UOC)
- ARTS3132 Based on a True Story (6 UOC)
Students enrolled in their program in Single Mode may complete other courses from the above prescribed lists as free electives.
