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Graduate Certificates prepare students to develop advanced knowledge and skills for professional or highly skilled work and further learning corresponding to AQF level 8 qualifications.This is a course for students who are new to their chosen major area of study. It is designed as an introduction to the practical, creative, and critical skills of a chosen discipline. Students will learn and practice fundamental skills as well as develop critical, analytical, and creative capacities for conceiving project ideas for future professional or community engagements.Students select a stream from the following areas of study:Creative Writing StreamThe Creative Writing stream is designed for those seeking to develop an introductory understanding of creative writing.Digital Communications StreamThe Digital Communications Stream provides you with an opportunity to learn some of the key aspects of the human dimensions of the Internet: how people network, collaborate, and share information through digital and social media and design. Depending on choice of subjects, you will develop skills in one or more of: creating, maintaining and managing online communications for personal and commercial interactions, as well as gaining knowledge of the social and cultural contexts within which those interactions occur. The approach is interdisciplinary: you develop skills in websites, public communication, social network management, collaboration via virtual organisations, and web media production. At the same time, you will understand the political, economic and social changes associated with the Internet. By taking this course, you will add to your existing qualification a basic level knowledge and skills needed for you to become an astute, engaged professional communicator via the Internet.Fine Art StreamThe Fine Art stream is designed for those seeking to develop an introductory understanding of Fine Art.Professional Writing and Publishing StreamThe Professional Writing and Publishing stream is designed for those seeking to develop an introductory understanding of Professional Writing and Publishing.

Prepare for creative industries and roles. You’ll choose from topics including creative writing and fine art. Get to know professional publishing. Consider creating online. Add new specialised skills to your resume and watch your career bloom.

Graduate Certificate in Arts

This is a course for students who are new to their chosen major area of study. It is designed to allow students to develop and apply advanced skills and understandings of contemporary practices in their field while developing and extending their critical, analytical, and creative knowledges and experiences through interdisciplinary engagement with allied fields of media, creative arts, and social inquiry. Students will develop specialist practical and professional skills orientated towards professional or creative engagement in fields of their chosen major. They will also gain analytical, collaborative, and problem-solving skills through the critically informed practice of designing, planning, and producing a major project in the form of a creative production, portfolio work, report, or thesis. The course also provides opportunities for students to take internships in their respective fields and to demonstrate qualification for possible entry into Curtin University’s PhD program.﻿This Creative Writing major develops students’ practical skills and knowledge across a variety of writing styles, such as fiction, poetry, and writing for performance, as well as range of emerging and experimental genres. The major encourages experimentation and creativity and stimulates critical awareness through discussion of relevant theory, and engagement with digital technologies. Students master writing skills and extend their creative and critical capacities by undertaking a project in their second year of study. They also have an option to practice these skills and develop their portfolio through internship with a professional organisation. Students with outstanding results will have an option to further strengthen their critical capacity in preparation for possible PhD study.

Get creative and learn to communicate in engaging ways. You’ll develop practical skills across a variety of styles. Persuade, inform, and captivate. Dive deep into a research project. Quality writers are in demand. Get qualified and pursue an arts career.

Master of Arts (Creative Writing)

This is a course for students who are new to their chosen major area of study. It is designed to help students develop advanced skills and understandings of contemporary practices in their field, while deepening their critical, analytical, and creative knowledges and experiences through interdisciplinary engagement with allied fields of media, creative arts and social inquiry. Students will develop specialist practical and professional skills in their chosen major, as well as the ability to conceive, research and plan a major creative or professional project suited to their interests and ambitions.﻿This Creative Writing major develops students’ practical skills and knowledge across a variety of writing styles, such as fiction, poetry, and writing for performance, as well as range of emerging and experimental genres. The Creative Writing Major encourages experimentation and creativity and stimulates critical awareness through discussion of relevant theory, and engagement with digital technologies.

Learn how to write stories, poems, scripts and more. You’ll pick up valuable skills and gain confidence to pursue a creative writing career. Topics include travel writing, writing for children, and more. Express yourself and unlock a new vocation.

Graduate Diploma in Arts (Creative Writing)

Bachelor Degrees prepare students to develop broad and coherent knowledge and skills in a discipline for professional work and further learning corresponding to AQF level 7 qualifications.This course offers students the opportunity to study one or two disciplines from a wide range of majors. Students choosing only one major will also choose the elective stream where they will be able to choose further units from the same discipline as their chosen major or may choose units from throughout the university. The first year of the course enables students to choose foundation units suitable to their needs and begin study in their chosen major(s), where appropriate.

Develop your own voice as you explore genres including poetry. You’ll learn how to plan and research your projects. Polish your grammar, practice proofreading and copyediting. Witness words transforming from wispy thoughts to professional pieces.

Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) (Professional Writing and Publishing)

The Undergraduate Certificate in Creative Writing is designed for people who are interested in pursuing a career in Creative Writing. The Undergraduate Certificate may give student entry (and credit for the four units completed) into the Creative Writing major within the Bachelor of Arts program offered by Curtin through Open Universities Australia or the equivalent internal course, among others at Curtin and Curtin OUA.

Your introduction to creative writing at university level, and a pathway towards further study. Explore the writing process and get to know genres and forms, putting pen to paper as your write short fiction and graduating with a collection of your own.

Undergraduate Certificate in Creative Writing

If you like to express yourself creatively through writing, the Creative Writing degree will help enhance your skills across a range of writing styles, such as fiction, poetry and writing for performance, as well as emerging and experimental genres. You’ll be encouraged to improve your critical awareness and develop all the relevant professional skills required  of an author in the digital age. Each week, you will benefit from the advice and support of our tutors, many of whom are acclaimed authors, and through critical engagement with a talented peer group. Your lecturers and tutors will also advise you on processes that will prepare you to seek publication for your work.   Curtin’s creative writing graduates have had consistent success in national literary awards and publishing. The content of the major creates employment outcomes across a broad range of communications-related fields and will allow you to develop applicable language skills and conceptual understandings that will be useful across a range of other academic disciplines.

Explore styles including poetry and short fiction. Choose from electives including screen and digital. Prepare for real employment outcomes in writing, editing and publishing. Study creative writing online and transition to an online writing career.

Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing)

The Curtin University Professional Writing and Publishing degree prepares students for writing careers in the private, public and creative sectors through the study and practice of a range of different writing forms, including feature articles, speeches, reports, discussion papers, travel writing, history, personal essays, memoir, website copywriting, social media writing, promotional writing, creative non-fiction, and media releases. Students also study and practice editing and publishing.Students may choose to study the following combinations of two single majors to obtain the double major award:<ul><li>Creative Writing and Professional Writing and Publishing</li><li>Digital and Social Media and Professional Writing and Publishing</li><li>Digital Experience and Interaction Design and Professional Writing and Publishing</li><li>Fine Art and Professional Writing &amp; Publishing</li><li>Professional Writing and Publishing and Visual Culture</li><li>Digital Design and Professional Writing and Publishing</li></ul>Please refer to the respective degree pages for more details.

Learn to craft articles, speeches, reports, travel writing, humour, fiction, history, creative non-fiction, media releases and how to write specifically for the internet. Find a career in research, writing, editing and publishing.

Bachelor of Arts (Professional Writing and Publishing)

An Introduction to Creative Writing

Creative Writing

Introduction to Creative and Professional Writing

Professional Writing

Travel Writing

Writing the Short Story

Writing for Children

Writing Short Fiction

Writing Long Fiction

Writing Genre Fiction

An intermediate subject in the theory and practice of creative writing with a particular emphasis on contemporary avant-garde poetics and other experimental forms.
Please Note:  If it’s your first time studying a Curtin University subject you’ll need to complete their compulsory ‘Academic Integrity Program’. It only takes two hours to complete online, and provides you with vital information about studying with Curtin University. The Academic Integrity Program is compulsory, so if it’s not completed your subject grades will be withheld.
Find out more about the <a href="https://www.curtin.edu.au/students/essentials/rights/academic-integrity/aip/" target="_blank">Academic Integrity module</a>

Express yourself through unconventional writing styles such as postmodern poetry, spoken word poetry and mixed media. Analyse how new genres fit into the literary landscape. Take part in thought-provoking workshops. Develop a portfolio of poetic work.

Experimental Writing

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