Digital Creative Writing
PostgraduateMAQ-ENGX80302025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Digital Creative Writing
About this subject
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Plan and produce short-form digital text-based creative works in two or more technologies.
- Employ industry-appropriate vocabulary and concepts in the analysis of digital creative writing and digital cultures.
- Appraise and evaluate the digital creative work of others in writing workshops
- A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this subject will be provided in your study materials.
This practical writing unit reflects on the dynamic relationships that exist between creative writing practice and digital, networked and interactive cultures. Students will be introduced to techniques in authoring short-form narrative or poetry-based digital and interactive works, exploring technological and literary questions relating to the writing and production of digital works. Students will engage with open-source software and network media to develop skills that advance their digital literacy. At the end of the unit students will have utilised two or more technologies in the writing and production of a minor and major digital creative work.
- Digital creative work (minor) (30%)
- Participatory task (30%)
- Digital creative work (major) (40%)
For textbook details check your university's handbook, website or learning management system (LMS).
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- MAQ-MCW-MAS-2025 - Master of Creative Writing
Others
Pre-requisite: Admission to Master of Creative Writing.
NCCW ENGL830, ENGL8030
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
PostgraduateMAQ-MCW-MAS