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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.1 Creative Writing Stream

Introduction

This major 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 3 OPTIONS   75.0
  75.0
Year 1 Semester 2
  SELECT 3 OPTIONS   75.0
  75.0
Optional Units to Select from in Year 1 Semester 1 Hrs/Wk Credit
1581 v.6   Creative Writing 120 3.0 25.0
2584 v.8   Writing Poetry 210 3.0 25.0
2585 v.8   Writing Short Fiction 210 3.0 25.0
301017 v.8   Introduction to Writing 110 3.0 25.0
7353 v.8   Experimental Writing 220 3.0 25.0
Optional Units to Select from in Year 1 Semester 2 Hrs/Wk Credit
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
313345 v.1   Writing for Performance 520 3.0 25.0

*    Note no more than 100 credits of undergraduate units may be chosen as options.