Postgraduate - Area of study Writing

The postgraduate writing program 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. Students will increase their knowledge and understanding of different kinds of contemporary writing, especially prose forms, and acquire detailed knowledge of a range of techniques associated with contemporary cultural production. Research in the postgraduate program allows students to reflect critically on their own writing practices while developing and applying skills and techniques though individual and collaborative projects.

Both coursework and individual research projects in the postgraduate writing program broach the question of how to define the nature and status of "creative" writing. The program deepens student's contextual understanding of writing practices by engaging with a range of theories, with particular reference to feminism, psychoanalysis, postmodernism and post-structuralism, in terms of their potential to shed light on the philosophical and social implications of creative writing practice, where the term "creative" is understood in its broadest sense.