Course summary
Effective storytelling connects and engages an audience, whether they read, watch or listen, and creative writing skills are highly sought after by industries worldwide.
Take the first step towards making your wordsmithing career a reality by studying with renowned professional writers. This course offers a rich blend of study across fiction and non-fiction, experimental writing, journalism, life writing, poetry, writing for stage and screen, and writing for young adults.
As well as guidance from highly regarded writers from the Northern Rivers arts community, you'll benefit from hands-on experience at iconic Australian literary events such as the Byron Writers Festival, the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival and others.
As a graduate, you could launch a career as a novelist or scriptwriter; a food, nature, arts or travel specialist; feature journalist; critic and reviewer; essayist; poet; editor and publisher; or as a writer in government, corporate marketing and public relations, among other options.
Effective storytelling connects and engages an audience, whether they read, watch or listen, and creative writing skills are highly sought after by industries worldwide.
Take the first step towards making your wordsmithing career a reality by studying with renowned professional writers. This course offers a rich blend of study across fiction and non-fiction, experimental writing, journalism, life writing, poetry, writing for stage and screen, and writing for young adults.
As well as guidance from highly regarded writers from the Northern Rivers arts community, you'll benefit from hands-on experience at iconic Australian literary events such as the Byron Writers Festival, the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival and others.
As a graduate, you could launch a career as a novelist or scriptwriter; a food, nature, arts or travel specialist; feature journalist; critic and reviewer; essayist; poet; editor and publisher; or as a writer in government, corporate marketing and public relations, among other options.
While this course has no majors, studies in fiction and non-fiction writing include:
- Experimental writing
- Journalism
- Life writing
- Poetry
- Writing for stage and screen
- Writing for young adults.
Course Learning Outcome |
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Apply critical analysis, reasoning and reflexivity to creative writing practices. Demonstrate the ability to develop a creative written piece incorporating a range of writing techniques. |
Develop innovative and creative textual responses to explore contemporary and historical social and cultural issues. |
Investigate and evaluate issues with reference to principles of creativity, according to ethical conventions in the humanities. |
Demonstrate a critical understanding of practices of creativity using a variety of conceptual frameworks. Demonstrate a command of at least one discipline within the range of writing genres. Apply theoretical ideas to understand and manage practical situations in creative writing. |
Access, interpret and evaluate sources of information relevant to the study of creativity and the writing discipline. |
Construct and present narratives in written text. Negotiate contested issues and work collaboratively with others to achieve mutually agreed outcomes. |
Demonstrate a cosmopolitan and multicultural commitment as well as a local perspective on social and cultural issues. Demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to interact in a culturally competent way with Indigenous communities. |
Opportunities exist for writing students to undertake work placements with Northern Rivers Performing Arts (NORPA) (an education partner of our University), the Byron Writers Festival, and the Bellingen Readers and Writers Festival.
Students can choose a professional placement unit during which they spend 70 - 100 hours in an appropriate organisation, developing their knowledge and skills.
Course overview
Course code
2207005
Course abbreviation
AssocDegCreatWrite
Credit points
192
Equivalent units
16
Duration
2 years full-time; 4 years part-time
Duration
2 years full-time
Availability details
Domestic
Location | Teaching period | UAC code | QTAC code |
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Lismore | Session 1 | N/A | N/A |
Online | Session 1 | N/A | N/A |
Fee information
International
Location | Teaching period | Annual Fees | CRICOS |
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Lismore | Session 1 | $26,800 ($3,350 per unit) | 040061M |
Course requirements
See the University’s Rules Relating to Awards, in conjunction with the Specific Award Rules listed below.
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To be eligible for the award of Associate Degree of Creative Writing a candidate shall successfully complete not less than sixteen (16) units (192 credit points) comprising:
- all units listed in Part A; and
- three (3) units from Part B
- A candidate who while enrolled in the Associate Degree of Creative Writing has completed 8 units from either Part A or Part B may elect to be awarded a Diploma of Creative Writing following withdrawal from candidature for the Associate Degree.
Schedule of units
Course progressions
Your course progression is in the recommended order you should complete your course in. It is important that you follow this to ensure you meet the course requirements. For further assistance see How to Enrol in Units using My Enrolment.
Students should use course progression information to select units specific to their course and enrol in these units using My Enrolment
Browse uni-wide elective units by selecting Uni-wide elective in the advanced filter of the Unit search.
Browse shared majors and their units at Shared majors
Title | Level of learning | Note | |
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Part-time students should complete the first two units for Year 1, Session 1 and the remaining two units for Year 2, Session 1 and so on. | |||
Year 1, Session 1 | |||
ENG00400 - Introduction to Written Texts | Introductory | ||
COM10295 - Written Communication | Introductory | ||
WRI10001 - Introduction to Creative Writing | Introductory | ||
Choose one Part B Unit | |||
Year 1, Session 2 | |||
WRI10003 - Short Story Writing | Intermediate | ||
COM10627 - Telling Tales: Introduction to Digital Storytelling | Introductory | ||
WRI20001 - Writing for Young People | Intermediate | ||
ENG00407 - Writing for Performance | Intermediate | ||
Year 2, Session 1 | |||
WRI10002 - The Nature of Narrative: Self, Time, Place and the Environment | Intermediate | ||
WRI20002 - Introduction to Editing and Publishing | Advanced | ||
ENG00411 - Writing Genre | Intermediate | ||
Choose One Part B Unit | |||
Year 2, Session 2 | |||
ENG00401 - Issues and Themes in Contemporary Writing | Intermediate | ||
WRI20003 - Writing Poetry | Intermediate | ||
WRI20004 - Writing Lives | Intermediate | ||
Choose One Part B Unit |
Title | Level of learning | Note | |
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Part-time students should complete the first two units for Year 1, Session 2 and the remaining two units for Year 2, Session 1 and so on. | |||
Year 1, Session 2 | |||
COM10295 - Written Communication | Introductory | ||
WRI10001 - Introduction to Creative Writing | Introductory | ||
WRI20001 - Writing for Young People | Intermediate | Note 1 | |
COM10627 - Telling Tales: Introduction to Digital Storytelling | Introductory | ||
Year 2, Session 1 | |||
ENG00400 - Introduction to Written Texts | Introductory | ||
WRI10002 - The Nature of Narrative: Self, Time, Place and the Environment | Intermediate | ||
ENG00411 - Writing Genre | Intermediate | ||
Choose One Part B Unit | |||
Year 2, Session 2 | |||
ENG00401 - Issues and Themes in Contemporary Writing | Intermediate | ||
WRI20003 - Writing Poetry | Intermediate | ||
WRI20004 - Writing Lives | Intermediate | ||
WRI10003 - Short Story Writing | Intermediate | ||
Year 2 , Session 3 | |||
ENG00407 - Writing for Performance | Intermediate | ||
Year 3, Session 1 | |||
WRI20002 - Introduction to Editing and Publishing | Advanced | ||
Choose two (2) Part B Units |
Notes
Note 1: | Students will need to submit a Unit Approval Request through My Enrolment to study this unit concurrently with the pre-requisite unit WRI10001 Introduction to Creative Writing in Session 2. |
Unit groups
Part B
Title | Level of learning | Note | |
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Choose any three (3) of the following units: | |||
COM00481 - Journalism in the Digital Age | Intermediate | ||
COM00482 - Hot Topics: Feature Journalism | Intermediate | ||
HIS10018 - Writing Place: Landscapes, Memory, History | Intermediate | ||
ENG00406 - Theories of Text and Culture | Advanced | ||
COM00471 - Professional Placement | Advanced | ||
SOY10114 - Independent Project | Advanced | ||
AAD72205 - Artists' Books | Intermediate | ||
ENG10022 - Writing from the Edge | Advanced | ||
COM01402 - Screenwriting | Intermediate |