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Major sequences and specialisationsCreative WritingCreative Writing can be taken as a major sequence within a Bachelor of Arts. Creative Writing can be taken as a major sequence within a Bachelor of Arts. Flinders also offers a Bachelor of Creative Arts, which includes a Creative Writing stream designed for students already planning a career in the arts and communication industries. Select the appropriate degree for links to the relevant program of study. WHY STUDY CREATIVE WRITING?The variety of writing topics offered at Flinders will enable you to design a program to fulfil your needs. Many of our Creative Writing students will also major in English, but this is not compulsory. We believe that there are considerable benefits in our program. Creative writers are creative readers; they are also flexible writers, sensitive editors and lateral thinkers. Our topics can hone your skills so that even if you do not intend to become a novelist or poet, you will be an adept professional in the workplace.The core aim of the Creative Writing Major is to develop in students the creative, practical, critical and collaborative skills necessary to pursue a career in the communication and creative industries or to advance to Honours or higher degree study. These core skills will be complemented by the skills and knowledge acquired by students taking related literary studies topics in addition to those in other BA disciplines. The major, then, will develop flexible, independent thinkers capable of analysing problems from different perspectives and of critical evaluation of their own and their peers' work. COURSE OVERVIEWA major sequence in Creative Writing draws together a number of highly popular topics. As part of a BA, it consists of 9 units of English 1 topics and a choice of English and Screen topics making up 18 units at upper level and a further 6 units of literary topics offered in the English major.Topics offered cover a range of writing practices and genres, including those developed in tandem with new technologies, as well as training in reading all of the major traditional genres of literature. Graduating creative writing majors will be able to demonstrate a variety of skills and will have a portfolio of their creative achievements that will make them attractive to employers in the arts and communication industries. In tandem with an English or other BA major, it will prepare them to be trained as teachers. Students will also have the opportunity to engage with members of the literary culture - writers, editors, and publishers - through presentations organised by the department. In addition, the School of Humanities offers a number of topics in the area of effective communication in the workplace. Some topics, such as Professional English, are available to all students at Flinders. FURTHER INFORMATIONDepartment of English, Creative Writing and Australian StudiesTel: (08) 8201 2053. Fax: (08) 8201 3635 The Admissions/Prospective Students Office, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide SA 5001
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