Available in 2024
Course code

ENGL2102

Units

10 units

Level

2000 level

Course handbook

Description

Do you want to learn how to turn your life experience into compelling narrative? This course explores various forms of life writing such as memoir (including family memoir, graphic memoir and medical memoir), personal essays on aspects of culture and identity, place, environmental and travel writing. Students learn about the creative possibilities in the blending of fact and fiction that occurs in creative nonfiction and how to master the subjective voice in their own writing.


Availability2024 Course Timetables

Callaghan

  • Semester 2 - 2024

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Identify various forms of life writing across an array of voices from the local to the global;

2. Experiment with the key techniques involved in shaping the creative nonfiction text;

3. Apply core skills in written communication, in both critical analysis and creative practice.


Content

In this course you may learn:

  • how to craft short form creative nonfiction
  • ways to work with memory and material archives
  • the relationship between trauma and narrative
  • how to analyse techniques used by major writers and emerging practitioners
  • ways to navigate the ethical dimension of writing self and others
  • how to position and possibly publish your work in this field

Assessment items

Written Assignment: Creative non-fiction

Written Assignment: Reflection

Written Assignment: Response to family photograph


Contact hours

Semester 2 - 2024 - Callaghan

Seminar-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
  • Compulsory Requirement: Students must attend 75% of sessions.

Course outline