Course rule and topic information

Bachelor of Arts

Creative Writing major sequence

The following is the program of study [November, 2008] for a 33-unit major sequence in Creative Writing within a Bachelor of Arts and should be read in conjunction with the course rule for the BA.

Note: Students enrolled in the double Bachelor of Education/Bachelor of Arts degree are not permitted to complete a double major in Creative Writing and English. Students must choose EITHER Creative Writing OR English.

33 units comprising:

First Year

ENGL1007

Short Stories and their Writers

4.5

and 4.5 units from one of the following:

ENGL1001	Professional English	4.5
ENGL1003	Imagined Worlds: Approaches to Literature	4.5
ENGL1004	Writing Australia	4.5
ENGL1008	Fictions and Transformations	4.5

Second and Third Years

24 units, including 18 units from the topics listed below and 6 units from the Group A list of Literary Studies topics offered in the English major:

ENGL2007	Professional Writing **	6
ENGL2110	Writing and Designing for the Web	6
ENGL2300	Writing for Children	6
ENGL2301	The Craft of Poetry	6
ENGL2500	Creative Nonfiction	6
ENGL2503	Introduction to Creative Writing	6
ENGL2507	Wish You Were Here: Workshopping Travel Writing	6
ENGL2600	Publishing and Editing	6
MDIA2104	Creating Digital Texts	6
PROF2101	Professional Writing **	6
SCRN3060	Introduction to Screen Writing	6

** Students completing PROF2101 Professional Writing will NOT be permitted to enrol in ENGL2007 Professional Writing.

And 6 units from the Group A list of Literary Studies topics offered in the English major listed below:

DRAM2510	Comedy and Satire	6
ENGL2101	Private Parts: Sex, Love and Marriage in 19th century British Literature	6
ENGL2104	Shakespeare	6
ENGL2109	Dethroning the Gods: Literary Modernism and its Enemies	6
ENGL2111	Adaptations: Reading Texts and Film	6
ENGL2112	Past Reading: Contemporary Historical Fictions	6
ENGL2210	Chaucer and Medieval Literature	6
ENGL2220	Scottish and Irish Literature	6
ENGL2240	Traditional Literatures	6
ENGL2260	Twenty-First Century Literature: Texts and Contexts	6
ENGL2261	Post-Colonial Literature and Cultures	6
ENGL2302	Fiction for Young Readers	6
ENGL2410	Life Writing: Reading and Writing the Self	6
ENGL2420	The Anglo-Saxon World	6
ENGL2506	Ripping Yarns: Telling Stories of Empire	6
ENGL2508	Crime Fiction and Film: From Poe to the Postmodern	6
SCRN3008	Narrative and Storytelling	6

Note: Students should consult the course handbooks available from the English Office, to see which topics will be offered in any given year. Further details about particular topics, including topic guides and reading lists, are also available from the English Office.