Welcome to English and Creative Writing
The Department of English, Creative Writing, and Australian Studies is a department in the School of Humanities which is in the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law .
Department Office: Room 223/254 Humanities (campus map)
English
English can be taken as a major sequence within the Bachelor of Arts .
WHY STUDY ENGLISH?
The study of literature can assist students to think critically and creatively:
- It trains students in the ability to shape their opinions with a real sense of human consequences.
- It offers an understanding of the nature and power of literature, and the way texts may shape attitudes to race, to gender, and to social and economic relationships.
- It enhances the ability to present views clearly and persuasively, and to analyse the arguments of others.
Few literatures are as rich and diverse as literature in the English language, and we explore this in many topics offered by the
COURSE OVERVIEW
A major sequence in English as part of the BA consists of 9 units of first-year English topics and a choice of English topics making up 12 units at second and third year levels. Topics in First Year review a wide range of texts and periods in literature, from Shakespeare to contemporary writing. Emphasis is given to students’ development of skills in written expression and critical approaches to texts. In Second and Third Years, students may choose from topics ranging from eleventh century literature through to twenty-first century literature; topics that focus on life writing, the literary canon, and ones that examine the transposition of literature to the screen.
COMS1001 Academic and Professional Communication
ENGL1101 Approaches to Literature
ENGL1102 Reading and Writing Short Stories
ENGL2120 Shakespeare
ENGL2121 Adaptations: Reading Text and Film
ENGL2130 Crime Fiction: From Poe to Postmodernism
ENGL2131 Twenty-First Century Literature: texts and contexts
ENGL2133 The Anglo-Saxon World
ENGL2140 Epochs of English
ENGL2141 Life Writing
ENGL2142 Fiction for Young Readers
ENGL3110 The Big Books
ENGL3111 The Big Books 2
For more information please see the 2013 English Handbook (PDF 398KB)
Creative Writing
Creative writing can be taken as a major sequence within the 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. With the Creative writing major, pathways exist for students to move from undergraduate study in writing to a Graduate Diploma or Master of Creative Arts or research MA and PhD.
Bachelor of Creative Arts (Creative writing) - Entry Requirements
WHY STUDY CREATIVE WRITING?
The study of creative writing helps students develop 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. 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 conjunction with an English or other BA major, it will prepare them to be trained as teachers.
Creative Writing topic offerings range from Reading and Writing Short Stories, Writing Picture Books, Writing Poetry, Prose Fiction, and Life Writing.
