WRIT301-26S1 (C) Semester One 2026

Writing with Impact

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 16 February 2026
End Date: Sunday, 21 June 2026
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 1 March 2026
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 10 May 2026

Description

This course develops to an advanced level students' skills and knowledge in various forms of non-fiction writing. The aim is to produce graduates who can write with novelty, vitality, and versatility across a range of genres; who can evoke distinctive voices of many kinds; who can express subtle and individual nuances of emotion; who can produce real embodied descriptions of the world; whose work can undertake fresh formal experiments, produce unprecedented effects, and go in surprising directions. Genres covered, depending on the year, may include life writing (biography, autobiography, and memoir); the personal and informal essay; popular science and science communication; writing about nature, animals, and the environment; travel, food, and health writing; review writing; writing for and about the digital and online world; and professional writing (reports, funding applications, web content).

Learning Outcomes

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award

Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.

Employable, innovative and enterprising

Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.

Globally aware

Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

Prerequisites

Any 30 points at 200 level from WRIT or ENGL, or
any 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA.

Restrictions

Equivalent Courses

Timetable 2026

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Monday 11:00 - 12:00 F3 Lecture Theatre
16 Feb - 29 Mar
20 Apr - 31 May
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 15:00 - 16:00 Meremere 105 Lecture Theatre
16 Feb - 29 Mar
20 Apr - 31 May
Tutorial A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 12:00 - 14:00 Psychology - Sociology 456
23 Feb - 29 Mar
20 Apr - 31 May
02 Wednesday 13:00 - 15:00 Jack Erskine 446
23 Feb - 29 Mar
20 Apr - 31 May
03 Thursday 10:00 - 12:00 Karl Popper 508
23 Feb - 29 Mar
20 Apr - 31 May

Contact Person

Philip Armstrong

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,896.00

International fee $8,525.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Humanities .

All WRIT301 Occurrences

  • WRIT301-26S1 (C) Semester One 2026