Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing)

Program Overview

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This intensive creative writing program fosters writing and editing skills while exploring industry trends. Students engage in studio-based learning, connect with industry professionals, and produce a major project showcasing their writing talent. The program offers a range of contextual studies and elective courses, preparing graduates for careers in writing, editing, publishing, and the screen industry.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

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Objective:

• Develop writing and editing professional skills while studying industry trends in creative expression and businesswriting.
• Become confident, skilled and adaptable in today’s creative industries.

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Program Description

• Intensive studio model designed with close ties to the writing and publishing industries as well as screen industry leaders and writers' festivals.
• Access to global links through exchange and study abroad opportunities with creative writing programs in North America and Asia.
• Work closely with world-leading lecturers and course leaders crafted with deep time for creative work.
• Gain a competitive edge by producing a major project as a graduate, demonstrating writing and creative talent.

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Outline:

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Program Content

• Creative writing studios
• Contextual studies

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Course Schedule

• Each semester, students immerse themselves in a new creative writing studio.
• Over three years, courses take students from the foundations of creative writing practice to the production of a major work in their chosen form of creative writing.

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Module Descriptions

• Creative Writing Studios:
Focuses on the forms of four key genres: poetry, fiction, nonfiction and screen/scriptwriting, in the context of their histories and the work of leading contemporary practitioners.
• Contextual Studies:
Students can complete a minor specialization from one of the following areas:
• Approaches to Popular Culture
• Asian Media and Culture
• Cinema Studies
• Contemporary Politics and Communication
• Literary Studies.

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Elective Courses

Students can also take advantage of a rich choice of electives available, complementing and enriching their core studies or broadening their horizons such as:

• Screen production
• Games
• Journalism
• Editing
• Advertising
• Design
• Specialist creative writing electives.

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Assessment:

• Research assignments
• Portfolio production
• Essays
• Presentations
• Peer or industry review and feedback
• Major project and companion work.

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Teaching:

• Workshops
• Seminars
• Intensives
• Face-to-face studios
• Individual projects
• Team projects
• Guest lectures
• Master classes
• Collaborative studios

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Careers:

• Writers
• Editors
• Publishers
• Events/festival managers
• Screenwriters
• Scriptwriters
• Screen producers