Faculty of Arts

 Creative writing

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The creative writing program at the University of Melbourne is located in the Department of English with Cultural Studies. It offers students an exciting and productive environment in which to acquire and develop essential skills in creative writing through a range of subjects. The program encourages work that combines creative and critical abilities. The focus of the program is on developing students' writing skills and publication opportunities.

The program offers a number of subjects and study areas, including prose fiction and poetry as well as drama, editing and scriptwriting, which provide opportunities for students to produce their own work under the guidance of professionally accredited practitioners who are technically expert in their specific areas. Many of them have close links with the publishing and film-production industries, and can keep you in touch with current developments. Graduates of this program have been extremely successful in seeing their work featured in a wide range of publications, and many have won awards in national competitions for their work.

Staff are dedicated to fostering a learning experience that students will value their whole lives, and they aim to help students to produce writing of a publishable standard. Undertaking a major in creative writing gives students an excellent and flexible preparation for careers in media, editing, publishing and education/teaching as well as other areas of professional writing such as journalism.

The Department also has a vibrant postgraduate community with its own journals and seminar series to which creative writing students make important and regular contributions.

 1. Prerequisites

Students enrolling in third year creative writing subjects will normally have passed two first year English subjects.

Students enrolling in second year creative writing subjects will normally have passed 106-086 Creative Writing 1: Autofictions plus at least one other first year English subject.

 2. Requirements for a major in creative writing

Note: all students intending to complete a major in creative writing must consult the Department of English for full application and selection procedures.

A major in creative writing usually consists of nine 12.5 point subjects, totalling 112.5 points. It comprises:

• at least two first year subjects in English (25 points), one of which must be 106-086 Creative Writing 1: Autofictions and;

• second/third year subjects in English (totalling 87.5 points). At least four of these subjects must be taken from the following approved creative writing subjects and must include the core subject 106-025 Creative Writing 2: Across the Genres. The remainder can consist of any second/third year subjects offered in the English Department.

 3. Creative writing subjects

First year
	106-086 Creative Writing 1: Autofictions	2

Second/third year
	106-025 Creative Writing 2: Across the Genres	1, repeat 2
	106-026 Writing Fiction	2
	106-027 Writing Scripts	1
	106-028 Writing Poetry	1
	106-041 Writing in the Electronic Age	Not Offered
	106-062 Writing Non-Fictional Forms	2
	106-077 Poetry in the Making	2
	106-090 Editing	Not Offered
	106-091 Writing for Performance	Not Offered

 3.1. Quotas

All second and third year creative writing subjects are subject to quotas. Selection of students will normally be based on order of merit in 106-086 Creative Writing 1: Autofictions. All other students wishing to undertake second or third year creative writing subjects must consult the Department of English for application procedures.

 3.2. Further Study

While there is no honours program in creative writing, students doing honours in literary studies can specialise in creative writing for their honours thesis. The Department of English also offers a number of graduate degrees at different levels in which students can study creative writing: a Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing; the Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (English); an MA by thesis; and a PhD.

 3.3. Career opportunities

In addition to developing students' own writing skills and publication opportunities, a degree with a major in creative writing is an excellent basis for careers in publishing, editing and teaching, as well as other areas of professional writing such as journalism.

 3.4. For more information

The Department of English
Second Floor, John Medley Building
The University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Tel: +61 3 8344 5506/7/8
Web: http://www.english.unimelb.edu.au

First year subject

106-086 Creative Writing 1: Autofictions

Second/third year subjects

106-025 Creative Writing 2: Across the Genres
106-026 Writing Fiction
106-027 Writing Scripts
106-028 Writing Poetry
106-062 Writing Non-Fictional Forms

Subjects not offered in 2001

Second/third year subjects not offered in 2001

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