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This course marks the culmination of students’ undergraduate creative writing journey, offering a focused experience in the development, drafting, and completion of a substantial creative writing project. Through a combination of readings, discussion, exercises, and practical workshops, students will explore new narrative forms such as the novelette, novella-in-flash, verse novel and poetic sequence. The course emphasizes revision and peer feedback, supports the development of practice-led research, and will prepare students for graduate study or continued creative practice.
students will gain advanced knowledge of a wide range of new narrative forms and genres and develop the tools to analyse them in ways that improve their own writingstudents will develop original creative writing by applying a range of writing techniques and approaches at an advanced levelstudents will undertake research relevant to their chosen form and genre students will extend to a high level their creative practice through regular reflection and review of work in progressstudents will attain advanced competency in constructive story critique; edit and revise their own writing and that of others to a high standardstudents will understand, articulate and respond to the implications of being a writer in Aotearoa New Zealand, especially in regard to Te Ao Māori and Pacific cultures
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.
Biculturally competent and confident
Students will be aware of and understand the nature of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, and its relevance to their area of study and/or their degree.
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.
Any 30 points at 200 level from WRIT or ENGL, orany 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
ENGL350
Students must attend one activity from each section.
Vana Manasiadis
Required reading:• Solvej Balle, On the Calculation of Volume (Volume 1) • Anne Carson, The Autobiography of Red (in particular 'The Autobiography of Red: A Romance')• Lynn Jenner, Lost and Gone Away • Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These• Luke, Kennard, Notes on the Sonnets• Haruki Murakami, The Strange Library • Maggie Nelson, Bluets• Max Porter, Grief is the Thing with Feathers• Robert Sullivan, Star WakaAdditional readings will be made available on Ako |Learn
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 .