Associate Degree of Creative Writing

Associate Degree

Effective storytelling connects and engages an audience, whether they read, watch or listen, and creative writing skills are highly sought after by industries worldwide. Take the first step towards making your wordsmithing career a reality by studying with renowned professional writers.

Key details

Degree Type

Associate Degree

Duration

2 years full-time, 4 years part-time

Course Code

2207005

Study Mode

Online

Intake Months

Mar

International Fees

$28,000 per year / $56,000 total

ATAR

55

About this course

Effective storytelling connects and engages an audience, whether they read, watch or listen, and creative writing skills are highly sought after by industries worldwide.

Take the first step towards making your wordsmithing career a reality by studying with renowned professional writers. This course offers a rich blend of study across fiction and non-fiction, experimental writing, journalism, life writing, poetry, writing for stage and screen, and writing for young adults.

As well as being taught by published writers from the Northern Rivers arts community, you'll benefit from hands-on experience at iconic Australian literary events such as the Byron Writers Festival, and the inaugural Kyogle Writers Festival.

Learn more about this degree in the creative writing showcase.

Study locations

Online

What you will learn

Apply critical analysis, reasoning and reflexivity to creative writing practices.
Demonstrate the ability to develop a creative written piece incorporating a range of writing techniques.
Develop innovative and creative textual responses to explore contemporary and historical social and cultural issues.
Investigate and evaluate issues with reference to principles of creativity, according to ethical conventions in the humanities.
Demonstrate a critical understanding of practices of creativity using a variety of conceptual frameworks.
Demonstrate a command of at least one discipline within the range of writing genres. Apply theoretical ideas to understand and manage practical situations in creative writing.
Access, interpret and evaluate sources of information relevant to the study of creativity and the writing discipline.
Construct and present narratives in written text.
Negotiate contested issues and work collaboratively with others to achieve mutually agreed outcomes.
Demonstrate a cosmopolitan and multicultural commitment as well as a local perspective on social and cultural issues.
Demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to interact in a culturally competent way with Indigenous communities.

Career pathways

As a graduate, you could launch a career as a novelist or scriptwriter; a food, nature, arts or travel specialist; feature journalist; critic and reviewer; essayist; poet; editor and publisher; or as a writer in government, corporate marketing and public relations, among other options.

Graduates of the Associate Degree of Creative Writing may also choose to continue to study for a further year and complete their Bachelor of Arts

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Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Communications courses at Southern Cross University (SCU).

76.2%

Overall satisfaction

75.7%

Skill scale

69.1%

Teaching scale

69%

Employed full-time

$67k

Average salary

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