Course overview
This second-year course aims to familiarise students with a wide variety of approaches to narrative theory and to an array of practice-based narrative techniques relevant to creative writing. Students will consider narrative in multiple literary forms, including prose (fiction and nonfiction), poetry, and writing for stage and screen. The course works to develop students critical and analytical skills in addition to affording opportunities to explore different forms and genres in their own creative practice.
- Narrative Theory
- Approaches to Creative Practice
Course learning outcomes
- Interpret and reflect on a broad range of creative, critical, and theoretical texts relevant to the history and ongoing development of narrative theory and its practical applications
- Conceptualise creative and critical projects, devise plans for their research and execution, and fulfil these to deadlines
- Analyse creative, critical, and theoretical texts informed by the global and historical contexts of their production
- Write and revise polished creative and critical works that demonstrate significant levels of clarity, insight, narrative innovation, and sophistication
- Evaluate their own and others’ writing, both in seminar-based workshops and through written feedback
Availability
Class details
Adelaide City Campus East
Class number 21940
Section LE01
Size 80
Available 79
Class number 21942
Section TU01
Size 30
Available 29
Class number 21941
Section TU02
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 26036
Section TU03
Size 30
Available 30
Class number 26035
Section TU04
Size 30
Available 30
Magill
Class number 30014
Section LE01
Size 90
Available 87
Class number 21944
Section TU01
Size 27
Available 27
Class number 21943
Section TU02
Size 27
Available 26
Class number 26314
Section TU03
Size 27
Available 25
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