- Program summary
- Program overview
- Admission requirements
- Program objectives
- Program structure
- Program requirements and notes
- Enquiries
Program summary
Program titile: Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing
Award abbreviation: GCCreativeWriting
Degree type: coursework
Mode of study: on campus
Duration: 6 months minimum full time, 2 years maximum part-time
Commence: Semester 1 or Semester 2
Fee type 2010: postgraduate coursework places, international fee-paying places
Total courses: 4
USC 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
1 required course:
CMN116 Principles of Nutrition
Plus select 1 course from:
CMN238 Community and Public Heath Nutrition
CMN246 Nutrition Therapy for Chronic Disease
Plus select 2 course from:
CMN213 Pharmaceutical and Food Microbiology
CMN235 Food Science
CMN238 Nutritional Biochemistry
CMN247 Food Service Systems
CMN260 Food Laws, Regulations and Quality Assurance
CMN266 Health Promotion Principles
CMN267 Sports Nutrition
EGL201 Exercise Physiology I
EGL285 Introduction to Mathematics
HIS230 Calculus and Algebra
Program 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.
- Only a full-time study option is available to international students on a Student Visa.
- International students need to refer to the University's English language proficiency requirements.
Enquiries
How to apply
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Tel: +61 7 5430 1259
Program Leader
Associate Professor Gary Crew
Tel: +61 7 5430 1130
Email: gcrew@usc.edu.au