Program Summary
Program Overview
Admission Requirements
Program Objectives
Program Structure
Program Requirements and Notes
Enquiries
Program Summary
Award Abbreviation: GCCWriting
Degree Type: Postgraduate coursework program
Mode of Study: On campus
Duration: 1 semester minimum full time, two years
maximum part-time
Fee Type: Domestic fee-paying places,
international fee-paying places
Total Courses: 4
Total Units: 48
Commence: Semester 1or Semester 2
Program Code: AR514
CRICOS Code: 053331J
Program Overview
The Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing offers an opportunity to:
- develop skills and conceptual understandings in contemporary creative and professional writing
- identify and evaluate audience to determine appropriate style of written communication and delivery
- discuss ideas and stories with an established creative writer
- examine trade novel conventions and reasons for economic success within a global market
In the employment market, the ability to write well and creatively is becoming increasingly important. Employers are looking for people able to write and communicate in a strong, creative and clear fashion. This program imparts knowledge and skills for literary writing and for communication generally, including audience identification, genre trends, and drafting, revising and editing techniques.
Admission Requirements
A student entering the Graduate Certificate program will normally be required to hold an undergraduate degree, or equivalent, from a recognised higher education institution. Entry by non-graduates who have extensive relevant industry experience may be considered on a case-by-case basis by the Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Program Objectives
On completion of this program students should be able to:
- demonstrate proficiency in areas of professional and creative writing
- discuss ideas and stories with an established creative writer
- identify and evaluate a particular audience, and develop the styles of written communication and modes of delivery accordingly
- identify the generic conventions of different forms of trade novels and outline the reasons for their economic success within a global market
- discuss contemporary culture and social outcomes/reactions of trends in popular fiction
- describe the generic conventions of different types of novels such as horror, romance, crime and science fiction
- analyse written and oral communications in order to identify and implement proper drafting, revising, and editing techniques
- graduate and pursue further vocational studies and apply theoretically advanced approaches
Program Structure
2 required courses:
CMN515 Creative Writing
A: Structuring Narrative
CMN541 Production Workshop (Creative Writing 1)
Plus select 1 course from:
CMN538 Creative
Writing D: Paperback Hero
CMN545 Creative Writing C: Writing for Children and Young
Adults
Plus select 1 course from:
AUS530 Talking
History: Memory and the Past
AUS560 Coast to Coast: Mystery, Crime and Writing the City
AUS585 Wonderworlds
AUS591 Otherlands: Myths and Legends from Homer to Disney
CMN513 Editing for the Communications Professional
CMN533 Non-Fiction Writing for the Small Screen
CMN535 News Writing: Print and Broadcast
CMN538 Creative Writing D: Paperback Hero
CMN545 Creative Writing C: Writing for Children and Young
Adults
CMN560 Creative Writing B: Novel Ideas
Requirements and Notes
- The Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing is a 48 unit program. Students must complete at least two compulsory specialist courses in creative writing.
- The courses that constitute the Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing will be existing undergraduate courses and will be assessed in the same way that they are for undergraduate students.
- The Graduate Certificate articulates into the Graduate Diploma. Students who undertake 48 units in the Graduate Certificate, can apply those units to the Graduate Diploma.
- Refer to the Academic Rules.
Enquiries
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Tel: +61 7 5430 1259