Theorising Creative Practice

Undergraduate | 2026

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Mode
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Your studies will be on-campus, and may include some online delivery
On campus
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Area/Catalogue
CREA 4000
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Course ID
205879
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Campus
Adelaide City Campus East
Level of study
Level of study
Undergraduate
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Unit value
12
Course owner
Course owner
School of Humanities
Course coordinator
Course coordinator
Patrick Flanery
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Course level
4
Work Integrated Learning course
Work Integrated Learning course
No
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Inbound study abroad and exchange
Inbound study abroad and exchange
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No
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University-wide elective course
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Single course enrolment
No

Course overview

This course provides students with an overview of critical, theoretical, and craft-focused approaches to the discipline of Creative Writing. The primary aim is to develop students' command of various methodologies of creative practice, including those articulated by other writers. Topics to be covered may include: culturally specific approaches to understanding creative practice; creativity as revolutionary act; gender and sexuality; embodied practice; creative practice as therapy; class and precarity; the post-human; writing in relation to the other arts. Students will produce two extended essays exploring ways of critically and theoretically framing practice-based research projects as preparation for the exegetical component of their Honours thesis; these essays may be creative, i.e. in the form of lyric or cross-genre essays.

Availability

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Census date
Fri 27/03/2026
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Enrol by date
Fri 13/03/2026
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Last day to W
Fri 10/04/2026
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Last day to WF
Fri 08/05/2026

Class details

Adelaide City Campus East

Class number
Class number 26306
Section
Section TU01
Size
Size 30
Available
Available 30
Dates Days Time Campus Location Instructor
23 Feb - 13 Apr Monday 1:10pm - 3pm Adelaide City Campus East Napier, LG21
4 May - 25 May Monday 1:10pm - 3pm Adelaide City Campus East Napier, LG21

Prerequisite(s)

N/A

Corequisite(s)

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Antirequisite(s)

  • must not have completed CRWR4006 Theorising Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide

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Assessment

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