Course code: 3074 + Mid-year entry available + 1 year
full-time, 2 years part-time + On-campus (Clayton)
Course coordinator: Barbara Caine
This course will explore many of the theoretical and practical issues involved in reading and writing biographies and life stories. It will include practical questions about the accessing of resources and the ways to utilise and design interviews. It will address many of the ethical, moral and legal questions involved in writing biography and life stories. It will also offer students an understanding of some of the ways in which psychoanalysis, feminist theory and postcolonial studies have affected the understanding of biography and life writing. Students will explore the history of biography and autobiography; and some of the different ways in which biographies have been constructed and written. The use of life stories in history and sociology will also be discussed.
Applicants require the completion of a bachelors degree in any approved discipline. Those without an undergraduate degree but demonstrable professional experience may be admitted to the Faculty Certificate in Biography and Life Writing. Those who achieve credit results in this certificate may apply for entry to the graduate diploma.
Students complete 48 credit points, including one 12-point core unit and three 12-point elective units offered at level four.
Students who have completed 24 points toward the Graduate Diploma in Biography and Life Writing may be offered an exit award of a Graduate Certificate in Arts.
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