Creative Writing (2024)

Creative Writing is available as a minor.

To complete a minor in Creative Writing students must complete at least 60 points in papers listed for the minor, including WRITE203 and WRITE300.

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• 100 Level
• 200 Level
• 300 Level

• 100 Level

  Code	Paper Title	Points	Occurrence / Location
  ARTSC105	Language in Context	15.0	24A (Online)
  Language in Context is an essential paper for students of a broad range of disciplines where language and communication are a focus. Students are given the tools to examine how human language reflects our histories, our social selves, and our immediate physical contexts. We observe how language is used to reinvent and to reinforce ...
  ENGLI100	Telling the Story	15.0	24A (Hamilton)
  This paper examines the deep stories which are at the core of the English literary tradition and the wider Western canon, using picturebooks, fairytales, popular film, detective fiction and short stories.
  ENGLI101	Adapting Stories	15.0	24B (Hamilton)
  This paper explores the art of adaptation, examining the process of transformation that occurs when creative artists reimagine and retell stories in new ways and new media.

• 200 Level

  Code	Paper Title	Points	Occurrence / Location
  WRITE201	Food Writing	15.0	24A (Hamilton)
  This paper uses writing about food, including recipes, memoirs, restaurant reviews and researched food writing, as the primary materials in a learning experience with an intensive applied writing focus.
  WRITE202	Creative Writing: Voice and Image	15.0	24B (Hamilton)
  This course explores the basic elements of imaginative writing - image and voice - concentrating the student's attention on the central writing practices of 'seeing' and 'saying.'
  WRITE203	Creative Writing: Inspiring Work	15.0	24G (Hamilton)
  This intensive, workshop-based paper, taught by award-winning novelist Catherine Chidgey, examines the concept of inspiration as it applies to creative writing. Students will consider historical theories of artistic inspiration as well as the methods of practising writers. Thematic lectures around the central topic will address rit...
  WRITE205	Writing for the Screen	15.0	24A (Hamilton)
  This paper explores foundational concepts in writing for the screen and develops practical skills in the application of these concepts during workshop sessions. The paper is organised around four main topic areas: world-making, characters, structures, and scenes/sequences. Students will produce a portfolio of writing, including pro...

• 300 Level

  Code	Paper Title	Points	Occurrence / Location
  ENGLI301	Genre Studies: Challenging Forms	15.0	24A (Hamilton)
  This paper is an intensive study of specific literary forms such as tragedy, poetry, travel writing, autobiography, and crime writing. The focus will vary from year to year.
  MAORI316	Te Reo Ahurei	15.0	24B (Hamilton)
  This paper is intended for students who have completed Maori language proficiency to intermediate level or higher. The emphasis will be on developing oral and critical skills in the use of the Maori language and English with particular attention on the critical examination and understanding of composition styles, including performa...
  WRITE300	Creative Writing: Creative Non-fiction	15.0	24B (Hamilton)
  This course explores the key elements of creative non-fiction writing, engaging with a variety of non-fiction texts including memoir, biography, the personal/lyric essay, and auto/biographical meta-fiction.