Breadth Option - Creative Writing

Course summary

Enhancing our appreciation of the process and crafting of creative writing opens up our understanding of the world. The course focuses on the development of your deeper understanding of the craft and contexts of writing creatively. You will produce a varied portfolio of work for final publication. You will become part of a critical circle that constructively works to evaluate peers’ work. The course will encompass learning across a variety of elements of the creative writing process, including: development of ideas, reviewing and editing work, use of dialogue and plot, writing for different creative formats. Workshops and guest writers will assist in the production and discussion around the production of the final portfolio. CAREERS Students who have studied in this subject have gone on to study/work in the area of: • Media and journalism (film, television, newspapers, advertising, gaming) • Publishing (traditional and digital publishing, e-books, electronic journals, online magazines, production, editing, marking, PR) • Teaching and academia (teaching young children/teenagers/adults, teaching at university level, research your chosen subject area for a university, publish journals and books) • Advertising and public relations (advertising, marketing, PR, sales) • Other examples: freelance writing, lexicography, interpretation/translation, therapy, psychology. And, of course, writing – whether that be novels, short stories, travel writing, blogger, columnist or playwright