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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

313947 v.2 Creative Writing Stream

Introduction

This stream develops specialist expertise in the use of the Internet for public communications, drawing on insights from the fields of public relations and marketing and combining them with an understanding of the Internet as a space for virtual communities and electronic writing. Students are equipped with high-level critical thinking, decision making and communication skills, allied to knowledge about Internet policy, organisation, community, management, and governance. Units can be taken from the School of Marketing as well as Internet Studies.

Course Structure Hrs/Wk Credit
Year 1 Semester 1
  SELECT 4 OPTIONS   100.0
  100.0
Year 1 Semester 2
  SELECT 2 OPTIONS   50.0
  50.0
Optional Units to Select from in Year 1 Semester 1 Hrs/Wk Credit
2584 v.8   Writing Poetry 210 3.0 25.0
2585 v.8   Writing Short Fiction 210 3.0 25.0
312476 v.1   Writing Long Fiction 510 3.0 25.0
312480 v.1   Writing and New Technologies 520 3.0 25.0
313343 v.1   Writing for Children 510 3.0 25.0
313351 v.1   Writing Creative Non-Fiction 510 3.0 25.0
Optional Units to Select from in Year 1 Semester 2 Hrs/Wk Credit
312642 v.1   Writing the Past 520 3.0 25.0
313345 v.1   Writing for Performance 520 3.0 25.0
313352 v.1   Writing Humour 521 3.0 25.0
7353 v.8   Experimental Writing 220 3.0 25.0
7354 v.8   Writing Genre Fiction 320 3.0 25.0