Creativity for Practice
Duration
- One Semester or equivalent
Contact hours
- 150 contact hours - Online
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning. For Online unit delivery, learning is conducted exclusively online.
2024 teaching periods
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Dates: Results: Last self enrolment: Census: Last withdraw without fail: |
Aims and objectives
This units lets you explore the key ideas around the identity and creative practice of the writer, including notions of the ‘writerly self’, current understandings of creativity and the relationship between subjectivity and reflection. This unit encourages you to reflect deeply and critically on the nature of your writing and to consider a range of methodologies that can help you map your development as a writer.
1. Evaluate and critique a range of complex techniques and theoretical approaches for turning creative reflection into creative output.
2. Demonstrate a high level of creative and practical skill experimentation through the application of creative and critical approaches to documenting and managing creativity.
3. Create and maintain a substantial research-based writer’s journal that unites independent reflexive thinking about their creative practice with theorisations about the nature and critical practice of writing.
Unit Learning Outcomes (ULO)
After successfully completing this unit, you will be able to:
2. Demonstrate a high level of creative and practical skill experimentation through the application of creative and critical approaches to documenting and managing creativity.
3. Create and maintain a substantial research-based writer’s journal that unites independent reflexive thinking about their creative practice with theorisations about the nature and critical practice of writing.
Unit information in detail
- Teaching methods, assessment and content.
Teaching methods
Hawthorn Online and OUA
Type | Hours per week | Number of Weeks | Total |
Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 11.5 | 13 | 150 |
TOTAL | 150 hours |
Assessment
Types | Individual/Group Role | Weighting | Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) |
| Written Assignment | Individual | 70% | 1, 2, 3 |
| Online Discussion Threads | Individual/Group | 40% | 1, 2, 3 |
Content
- Writerly identity
- Theories of creativity
- Thinking and writing reflexively
- Experiences of creative practice – case studies from the industry
- Alternate forms of creative output
- Voicing marginality
- Subjectivity
- Ethics and the writerly self
- Graduate Attribute: Communication Skills - Communicating using different media
- Graduate Attribute: Teamwork Skills - Collaboration and negotiation
- Graduate Attribute: Digital Literacies - Information literacy
Study resources
- Reading materials.
Reading materials
Refer to your Unit Outline for textbooks and reading materials.