- Program summary
- Program overview
- Admission requirements
- Program objectives
- Program structure
- Program requirements and notes
- Enquiries
Program summary
Program titile: Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing
Award abbreviation: GCCreativeWriting
Degree type: coursework
Mode of study: on campus
Duration: 6 months minimum full time, 2 years maximum part-time
Commence: Semester 1 or Semester 2
Fee type 2010: postgraduate coursework places, international fee-paying places
Total courses: 4
USC program code: AR514
CRICOS code: 058885A
Program overview
The Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing offers an opportunity to:
- develop skills and conceptual understandings in contemporary creative and professional writing
- identify and evaluate audience to determine appropriate style of written communication and delivery
- discuss ideas and stories with an established creative writer
- examine trade novel conventions and reasons for economic success within a global market
In the employment market, the ability to write well and creatively is becoming increasingly important. Employers are looking for people able to write and communicate in a strong, creative and clear fashion. This program imparts knowledge and skills for literary writing and for communication generally, including audience identification, genre trends, and drafting, revising and editing techniques.
Admission requirements
A student entering the Graduate Certificate program will normally be required to hold an undergraduate degree, or equivalent, from a recognised higher education institution. Entry by non-graduates who have extensive relevant industry experience may be considered on a case-by-case basis by the Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
Program objectives
On completion of this program students should be able to:
- demonstrate proficiency in areas of professional and creative writing
- discuss ideas and stories with an established creative writer
- identify and evaluate a particular audience, and develop the styles of written communication and modes of delivery accordingly
- identify the generic conventions of different forms of trade novels and outline the reasons for their economic success within a global market
- discuss contemporary culture and social outcomes/reactions of trends in popular fiction
- describe the generic conventions of different types of novels such as horror, romance, crime and science fiction
- analyse written and oral communications in order to identify and implement proper drafting, revising, and editing techniques
- graduate and pursue further vocational studies and apply theoretically advanced approaches
Program structure
1 required course:
CMN116 Introduction to Creative Writing
Plus select 1 course from:
CMN238 Creative Writing D: Paperback Hero
CMN246 Creative Writing for Children and Young Adults
Plus select 2 course from:
CMN213 Editing for the Communications Professional
CMN235 News Writing: Print and Broadcast
CMN238 Creative Writing D: Paperback Hero
CMN247 Creative Writing for the Illustrated Book
CMN260 Creative Writing B: Novel Ideas
CMN266 Creativity and Literature: Chaucer to Romantics
CMN267 Creativity and Literature: Victorians to Moderns
EGL201 Reality Bites: An Exploration of Non-Fiction
EGL285 Wonderworlds: An Exploration of English Literature
HIS230 Talking History: Memory and the Past
Program requirements and notes
- The Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing is a 48 unit program. Students must complete at least two compulsory specialist courses in creative writing.
- The courses that constitute the Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing will be existing undergraduate courses and will be assessed in the same way that they are for undergraduate students.
- The Graduate Certificate articulates into the Graduate Diploma. Students who undertake 48 units in the Graduate Certificate, can apply those units to the Graduate Diploma.
- Refer to the Academic Rules.
- Only a full-time study option is available to international students on a Student Visa.
- International students need to refer to the University's English language proficiency requirements.
Enquiries
How to apply
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Tel: +61 7 5430 1259
Program Leader
Associate Professor Gary Crew
Tel: +61 7 5430 1130
Email: gcrew@usc.edu.au