Creative Writing
Creative Writing enables students to develop an additional strength in imaginative writing and creative non-fiction, and will enhance their ability to write effectively in a range of genres, irrespective of their major subject area.
Creative Writing offers students:
- The ability to apply a high level of verbal communication skills;
- The ability to structure communication clearly and to express sophisticated and subtle concepts in an articulate manner;
- The ability to write confidently and effectively in a range of genres, including imaginative prose and creative non-fiction;
- Enhanced skills in reading and interpreting imaginative and other writing;
- An understanding of the role of genre in forming reader expectations and responses, and in constructing interpretive communities;
- Skills relating to editing their own creative and other writing.
Undergraduate Study
Creative Writing is available as a specialisation for the BA and BMCT. To complete a specialisation in Creative Writing, students must gain 80 points above 100 level from papers listed for the specialisation, including at least 40 points above 200 level.
The Creative Writing specialisation may be taken in place of a supporting subject. Students majoring in any of the subjects which contribute papers to the specialisation may credit papers towards both the major and specialisation, provided the specialisation is not taking the place of a supporting subject.
200 Level Papers (20 points)
ENGL211 Food Writing
ENGL213 Creative Writing: Creative Non-fiction
ENGL217 Writing and Audience
HIST207 Writing Historical Fiction
300 Level Papers (20 points)
ENGL309 Going Places: Life, Literature and Travel
ENGL318 Creative Writing: Voice and Image
ENGL390 Directed Study
SMST307 Writing for Screen Media
Other subjects that may interest you
Creative Practices
English
History
Screen and Media Studies
Theatre Studies
Writing Studies
For More Information Contact
Academic Contact:
Dr Sarah Shieff
Administrator:
[E] crwr-fass@waikato.ac.nz
[P] +64 7 838 4922
[F] +64 7 838 4638
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