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Undergraduate | CUR-CWG320 | 2023
Travel Writing
Learn travel writing conventions through short exercises and discussions. Discover how freelance travel writers find work and develop relationships with editors. Develop a publishable piece of travel writing that you could pitch to a publication.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed,
- No prior study
- Duration
- 13 weeks
Start dates
- 27 Feb 2023,
- 28 Aug 2023
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- identify and critically discuss a number of contemporary travel writers and a range of travel writing
- apply their understanding of the travel writing genre to the completion of a series of writing exercises, each designed to illuminate an aspect of prose composition
- explain the process and framework of freelance professional travel writing
- produce a substantial and carefully written travel story/feature/essay.
- A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this subject will be provided in your study materials.
This subject concentrates on contemporary travel writing in the short story/feature/essay form and has instructional value for both creative and professional writing students.
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- Research Article (45%)
- Travel Writing Project (35%)
- Short Composition (20%)
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Entry requirements
No entry requirements
Study load
0.125 EFTSL
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Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following degrees
UndergraduateCUR-ENG-DEG
UndergraduateCUR-CWG-DEG
UndergraduateCUR-CWP-DEG
Bachelor of Arts (Creative Writing) (Professional Writing and Publishing)
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