ENGL2102
10 units
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
- ENGL2102 - Semester 2, 2023 (Callaghan) (PDF, 263.1 KB)
The University of Newcastle acknowledges the traditional custodians of the lands within our footprint areas: Awabakal, Darkinjung, Biripai, Worimi, Wonnarua, and Eora Nations. We also pay respect to the wisdom of our Elders past and present.