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Unit Synopsis
This unit requires you to write a substantial creative piece called a 'creative artefact.' This piece might be a novella, a group of short stories, a screenplay, a script, or group of plays, a suite of poems, a portfolio of works of various genres, a flash fiction series, or some other genre, or any other approved mix. You will negotiate your creative artefact with a supervisor and produce a 'proposal' stating the literary intentions for your creative writing project, including a rationale. Your creative artefact will be expected to reflect a high-level synthesis and stylistic application of the writing skills you have acquired through the earlier units in the major. This will require writing a weekly critical reflection in parallel to track the development and progress of your creative artefact over time. You will produce a substantial body of work in creating your creative artefact.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 3 |
| Credit Points | 12 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 1 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.25 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Prerequisites: WRIT11023 WRIT11025 WRIT12010 WRIT13013 Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2025
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 12-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Research Proposal | 10% |
| 2. Critical Review | 40% |
| 3. Creative work | 50% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
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No previous feedback available
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: Student Evaluation Data
Students would like more examples of different styles of completed creative artefacts, or published stories that reach the 10000-word count
More examples of different creative artefacts and/or published stories that reach the 10000-word count will be included as exemplars for student reference.
The Head of Course provided more examples of various creative artefacts and published stories that reached the 10000-word count as exemplars for student reference.
Source: Student Evaluation Data
Students would appreciate more opportunities for peer interaction
More student interaction will be included in the form of two additional Zoom Workshop Sessions over the course of the term.
More opportunities for student interaction were included in the form of two additional Zoom Workshop Sessions over the course of the term.
Source: Head of Course self reflection.
Provide commentary podcasts to complement the examples of various creative artefacts and published stories that reached the 10000-word count provided as exemplars for student reference.
Consider developing additional audio resources to support student understanding of exemplar creative works.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a systematic and coherent knowledge of creative writing stylistic principles in one or more genres
- Incorporate advanced stylistic and technical concepts to produce a creative writing artefact that reflects a high-level synthesis and application of various writing skills
- Apply critical reflective practice in objectively tracking the development of the creative artefact over time.
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| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Research Proposal | • | ||
| 2 - Critical Review | • | ||
| 3 - Creative work | • | • | |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | ||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | ||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | • | ||
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | |
| 9 - Social Innovation | • | ||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |
| 1 - Research Proposal | • | • | • | ||||||||
| 2 - Critical Review | • | • | • | ||||||||
| 3 - Creative work | • | • | • | ||||||||