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 1 or Semester 2
Program code: AR514
CRICOS code: 058885A

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 Introduction to Creative Writing
CMN541 Production Workshop (Creative Writing 1)
Plus select 1 course from:
CMN538 Creative Writing D: Paperback Hero
CMN546 Creative 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
CMN547 Creative Writing for the Illustrated Book
CMN560 Creative Writing B: Novel Ideas

Requirements and notes

1. The Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing is a 48 unit program. Students must complete at least two compulsory specialist courses in creative writing.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. Refer to the Academic Rules.

Enquiries

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Tel: +61 7 5430 1259