Advanced Creative Writing - ENGL3754

   
   
   
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: 12 units of credit at the ENGL2000 level
 
 
Excluded: ENGL2922, ENGL3751, GENT0205, GENT0212
 
 
Fee Band: 1 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

Description


Builds upon Creative Writing A by assisting students in the development of larger independent writing projects in a specific genre, which in any given year could be extended prose fiction; experimental writing and fictocriticism; poetry; or drama and screenwriting.

Learning Outcomes


Students should acquire a range of skills to enable them to:
  • Develop, draft and complete an extended writing project
  • Critically analyse the conventions of writing and how they operate in texts
  • Identify and apply a range of literary techniques and strategies in relation to the genre being studied
  • Recognise how language, in general, and literary language, in particular, is governed by historical, cultural and generic conventions
  • Understand the skills of editing
  • Improve their skills in class interaction and communication
  • Expand their awareness and application of creative processes
  • Increase their ability to critically appraise their own work and the work of others.

Assessment


  • Mid-semester sample of writing - 30%
  • Final portfolio of writing - 50%
  • Participation - 20%