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Creative Writing

Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session

Creative Writing

Candidates for the Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing must complete 24 credit points of units of study including, a minimum of 12 credit points from core units of study and a maximum of 12 credit points from elective units of study, including one Introductory workshop unit of study. A maximum of 6 credit points from units of study outside the Creative Writing table, including units of study from other faculties can be counted towards the elective.
Candidates for the Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing must complete 48 credit points of units of study including, 18 credit points from core units of study and a maximum of 30 credit points from elective units of study, including at least one Introductory and one Advanced workshop unit of study. A maximum of 12 credit points from units of study outside the Creative Writing table, including units of study from other faculties can be counted towards the elective.
Candidates for the Master of Creative Writing must complete 72 credit points of units of study, including a minimum of 30 credit points from core units of study, a minimum of 6 credit points from capstone units of study and a minimum of 30 credit points from elective units of study, which must include at least one Introductory Workshop unit of study and at least one Advanced Workshop unit of study. A maximum of 12 credit points from units of study outside the Creative Writing table, including units from other faculties can be counted towards the elective.

Core

ENGL6913
Critical Contexts for Creative Writing
6      Semester 1
ENGL6914
Research Methods for Creative Writing
6      Semester 2
ENGL6917
Literary Culture: Sydney
6      Semester 1
ENGL6936
Writers at Work
6      Semester 2
ENGL6937
Literary Movements
6      Semester 1

Capstone

Master of Creative Writing students must complete either ENGL6908 or (ENGL6119 and ENGL6120). Students completing the Dissertation can count ENGL6120 towards their elective.
ENGL6119
Dissertation Part 1: Creative Writing
6    P Minimum 24 credit points of 6000-level Master of Creative Writing units (minimum 12 credit points core and workshop units)
N ENGL6908

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Semester 1
Semester 2
ENGL6120
Dissertation Part 2: Creative Writing
6    P ENGL6119
N ENGL6908

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Semester 1
Semester 2
ENGL6908
Creative Writing: Supervised Project
6    N ENGL6907 or ENGL6929 or ENGL6930 or ENGL6935 or ENGL6119 or ENGL6120

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Semester 1
Semester 2

Elective

Introductory Workshop units of study

ENGL6901
Creative Writing: Fiction Workshop
6      Semester 1
Semester 2
ENGL6902
Creative Writing: Poetry Workshop
6      Semester 1
Semester 2
ENGL6984
Creative Non-Fiction Workshop
6      Semester 1

Advanced Workshop units of study

ENGL6986
Advanced Workshop: Poetry
12    P ENGL6902
Semester 2
ENGL6987
Advanced Workshop: Novel
12    P ENGL6901
Semester 2

Other Elective

ENGL6040
Introduction to Old English
6      Semester 1
ENGL6041
Old English Texts

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6    P ENGL6040
Semester 1
ENGL6100
Approaches to Literary History
6      Semester 2
ENGL6101
Approaches to Genre
6      Semester 1
ENGL6102
Approaches to Critical Reading
6      Semester 2
ENGL6103
Approaches to Global English Literatures
6      Semester 1
ENGL6107
Sentiment and Sensation

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6      Semester 1
ENGL6108
Modern Australian Poetry and Poetics
6      Semester 1
ENGL6109
Modern and Contemporary Drama

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6      Semester 2
ENGL6110
The 18th Century Novel: Theory and Example
6      Semester 2
ENGL6112
Wooing Women in Middle English Romance

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6      Semester 1
ENGL6113
American Romance

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6      Semester 2
ENGL6114
Language and Subject

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6      Semester 2
ENGL6115
Reading Suburbia

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6      Semester 2
ENGL6937
Literary Movements
6      Semester 1
ENGL6970
Reading Magazines
6   

Cross-listed for Master of Publishing students.
Summer Main
ENGL6982
Shakespeare and Modernity

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6      Semester 1
ENGL6985
Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
6      Semester 2
ENGL6991
Aust Lit and the Canonical Imaginary

This unit of study is not available in 2018

6      Semester 1
ENGL6992
Henry James and the Art of Fiction
6      Semester 1
FASS7001
Academic English for Postgraduates
6      Semester 1
Semester 2
FASS7002
Critical Thinking and Persuasive Writing
6      Semester 1
Semester 2
WRIT6000
Professional Writing
6      Semester 2
WRIT6001
Professional Editing
6      Semester 1