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Graduate Certificate in Creative Industries (Creative Writing) - Queensland University of Technology |
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Graduate Certificate in Creative Industries (Creative Writing) (KK86)
| | Domestic entry: | | February, July |
| | CRICOS code: | | 064899M | | | | | | |
| | International entry: | | February and July |
| | Course duration (full-time): | | 1 semester |
| | Course duration (part-time): | | 2 semesters |
| | Total credit points: | | 48 |
| | Standard credit points/full-time semester: | | 48 |
| | Course coordinator: | | Dr Helen Klaebe |
| | Discipline coordinator: | | Mr Craig Bolland |
| | Campus: | | Kelvin Grove |
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Overview
The Graduate Certificate in Creative Industries is an innovative postgraduate course that enables students to fuse creative talents with business and entrepreneurial skills, and unites artistic practitioners, managers and the consumer through cultural leadership. With the shift to micro-business development, it provides the business acumen and entrepreneurial skills to turn ideas into successful enterprises.
Creative Writing
This course is offered to students from both cognate and non-cognate fields of study. The course is targeted at mid-career professionals and those wishing to convert existing knowledge through engagement with new media theories and practices in the creative industries. The Creative Writing course provides skills and knowledge in freelance writing and vocational areas including publishing, professional writing and editing. Units deliver students a range of skills in major writing forms and genres, with a variety of genres covered, including fiction, creative non-fiction and newswriting
Creative Writing Study Area
This Study Area explores the creative potential involved in the study of creative writing, as an artistic practitioner working within the creative industries. Viable and practical content will assist continuing personal practice.
This Graduate Certificate aims to provide you an understanding of the fundamental principles of creative writing. Skills-based units will provide the practical expertise required through a combination of Creative Writing Study Area units.
This Study Area aims to provide an understanding of the fundamental principles of creative writing and its application, as well as a theoretical backdrop to creative practice within the context of the Creative Industries. Such a framework will aid in orientating a student?s future as a creative writer or in associated practice.
Course Structure
To graduate with a Graduate Certificate in Creative Industries (Creative Writing), students are required to successfully complete 48 credit points, as specified in the Study Area structure.
Entry Requirements
An undergraduate degree with an overall minimum grade point average of 5.0 or above (on a 7-point scale). Students whose undergraduate degree is in a related creative industries discipline may apply for the Previously Studied Pathway. Applications without the requisite entry requirements will be considered for special entry. Please contact the Creative Industries Faculty for more information.
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