UWA Handbook 2023

Minor Overview

About this minor

The Creative Writing Studies Minor offers students creative industry experience and develops transferable skills in critical thinking, creativity and communication. Students will progress their writing skills and imaginative capacities through interactive workshops and scaffolded assessment tasks, which will result in the practice and production of original writing in multiple forms. Students will also be introduced to key theoretical approaches to the discipline in order to understand the relationships between writer and society, and contemporary literary forms and the publishing sector. The Minor pathway is carefully structured to achieve these outcomes. Two core units at first and second year-levels enable students' progress, a base competency in creative practice, and engagement with creative industries through a critical introduction to and practice of the publishing pathway. The third year options include a work-integrated learning placement that offers hands-on experience and allows students to apply their skills to the creative industries. For students taking a minor which shares units with their other unit sets (majors or minors): in order for minors to be recognised on academic and graduation documents, students may only have a maximum of one unit overlapping between their unit sets.

Outcomes

Students are able to (1) demonstrate transferable skills by crafting, revising, editing and completing creative writing works in multiple forms; (2) demonstrate the ability to express ideas concisely and clearly in both oral and written forms; (3) gain an understanding of the manner in which literary concepts and theories intersect with creative writing practice; (4) understand and critically evaluate major creative works; and (5) apply a range of reading and interpretive strategies relevant to creative praxis.

Units