Creative Writing
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| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Creative Writing |
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Master of Creative Writing |
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| Students complete 72 credit points, comprising: | |||
| (a) a minimum of 24 credit points from selective units of study; | |||
| (b) a minimum of 30 credit points from elective units of study including at least two Workshop selective units. | |||
| (i) With the permission of the Degree Director a maximum of 12 credit points can be taken as elective units from units of study outside those listed in the Creative Writing subject area, including units of study offered by other faculties. | |||
| (c) at least 6 credit points from capstone units of study. | |||
Graduate Diploma of Creative Writing |
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| Students complete 48 credit points, including: | |||
| (a) a minimum of 18 credit points from selective units of study; | |||
| (b) a maximum of 30 credit points from elective units of study including two workshop selective units of study. | |||
| (i) With the permission of the Degree Director a maximum of 6 credit points can be taken as elective units from units of study outside those listed in the Creative Writing table, including units of study offered by other faculties. | |||
Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing |
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| Students complete 24 credit points, including: | |||
| (a) 12 credit points from core units of study; and | |||
| (b) 12 credit points from elective units of study, including one introductory workshop selective unit of study. | |||
Selective |
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| ENGL6913 Critical Contexts for Creative Writing |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| ENGL6914 Research Methods for Creative Writing |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| ENGL6917 Literary Culture: Sydney |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| ENGL6936 Writers at Work |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| ENGL6937 Literary Movements |
6 | Semester 2 |
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Capstone |
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| Master of Creative Writing students need to 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 |
Electives |
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Workshop units of study |
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| ENGL6122 Life Writing Workshop |
12 | Semester 2 |
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| ENGL6986 Poetry Workshop |
12 | Semester 1 |
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| ENGL6987 Fiction Workshop |
12 | Semester 1 |
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Other Elective units of study |
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| ENGL6040 Introduction to Old English |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| ENGL6042 Old Norse This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| ENGL6100 Approaches to Literary History |
6 | Intensive July |
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| ENGL6101 Approaches to Genre |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| ENGL6103 Approaches to Global English Literatures |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| ENGL6106 The Idea of the South |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| ENGL6107 Sentiment and Sensation This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| ENGL6110 The 18th Century Novel: Theory and Example This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| ENGL6111 History Writing in English, 1500-1900 This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| ENGL6114 Language and Subject This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| ENGL6115 Reading Suburbia This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| ENGL6970 Reading Magazines |
6 | Intensive April |
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| ENGL6982 Shakespeare and Modernity This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| ENGL6985 Shakespeare and his Contemporaries This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| ENGL6992 Henry James and the Art of Fiction |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| MECO6945 Creative Non-Fiction Workshop This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | N ENGL6984 |
Semester 1 |
| FASS7001 Academic English for Postgraduates |
6 |
Where students intend to complete both FASS7001 and FASS7002, they should undertake FASS7001 first then FASS7002. Do not enrol in both in one semester. |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| FASS7002 Critical Thinking and Persuasive Writing |
6 | Semester 1 Semester 2 |
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| WRIT6000 Professional Writing |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| WRIT6001 Professional Editing |
6 | Semester 1 |
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