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Writing - Faculty of Arts

Offered by the School of Humanities, Communication and Social Sciences

Campus availability: Gippsland, Off-campus learning

Relevant courses

• 2460 Diploma in Arts (Writing)
• 0002 Bachelor of Arts (and associated double degrees)
• 1708 Bachelor of Arts (Communication) (and associated double degrees)
• 2396 Bachelor of Arts (Journalism) (and associated double degrees)
• 3904 Bachelor of Arts (Journalism)/Diploma of Professional Writing and Editing

The writing major provides a sequence of units which enables students to gain an understanding of a range of writing practices in the context of media and communication studies, contemporary cultural theory, and analyses of literary and other media forms. Units in writing enable students to become familiar with different kinds of contemporary writing, especially prose forms, and to acquire detailed knowledge of a range of techniques associated with contemporary cultural production. Upper-level units provide students with the opportunity to reflect critically on their own writing practices while developing and applying skills and techniques though individual and collaborative projects. The emphasis through the major is on exploring the many forms and possibilities of writing by contextualising writing practice through reflection on a range of textual histories and cultural theories.

Sequences

First-year sequence

A first year sequence in Writing consists of COM1010 and COM1020.

Minor sequence

Students complete a standard minor chosen from the units listed below, and including WRT3421.

Major sequence

Students complete a standard major chosen from the units listed below, and including core units COM1010, COM1020, ENH2407/ENH3407, WRT3421 and WRT3422.

Units

First-year level

• COM1010 Media studies
• COM1020 Introduction to communication studies

Second/Third-year level

Core units

• ENH2407/ENH3407 Authorship and writing (previously COM2407/COM3407)
• WRT3421 Writing techniques
• WRT3422 Writing experiments

Electives

• COM2408/COM3408 Screen theories and techniques
• COM2409/COM3409 Media texts
• ENH2401 English language and text
• ENH2402 Literature and history
• ENH2404/ENH3404 Popular writing and criticism (previously WRT2404/GSC3404)
• ENH2405/ENH3405 Contemporary fiction (previously WRT2405/GSC2405)
• HPL2506/HPL3506 Researching and writing community history (previously GSC2506/GSC3513)
• JRN2904/JRN3904 Editing for print media

Contact details

Enquiries (Gippsland): Room 283, building 2W

Telephone +61 3 9902 6339

Email humcass.info@arts.monash.edu.au

Visit http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/humcass