CRWR 3008 - Advanced Creative Practice: Form, Theory, Process
North Terrace Campus - Semester 2 - 2023
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General Course Information
Course Details
Course Code CRWR 3008 Course Advanced Creative Practice: Form, Theory, Process Coordinating Unit English, Creative Writing, and Film Term Semester 2 Level Undergraduate Location/s North Terrace Campus Units 6 Contact Up to 3 hours per week Available for Study Abroad and Exchange Prerequisites 15 units of Creative Writing courses Assessment Participation (online forums), Research Essay, Creative Project Course Staff
Course Coordinator: Professor Patrick Flanery
Coordinator: Prof. Patrick FlaneryCourse Timetable
The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from Course Planner.
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Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
1 Demonstrate an ability to interpret and respond to a broad range of creative, critical, and theoretical texts relevant to current debates about creative practice;
2 Demonstrate the ability to frame creative and critical projects, produce plans for their research and execution, and fulfil these to deadlines;
3 Engage rigorously and self-reflexively with selected creative, critical, and theoretical texts and the global and historical contexts of their production;
4 Write and revise polished creative and critical works that demonstrate high levels of clarity, aesthetic innovation, and sophistication;
5 Critically evaluate their own and others’ writing, both orally and in writing;
6 Engage seriously, sensitively, and respectfully with their peers, both in person and using online learning technologies, to provide substantive and productive feedback on creative work.University Graduate Attributes
This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attribute(s) specified below:
University Graduate Attribute Course Learning Outcome(s) Attribute 1: Deep discipline knowledge and intellectual breadth
Graduates have comprehensive knowledge and understanding of their subject area, the ability to engage with different traditions of thought, and the ability to apply their knowledge in practice including in multi-disciplinary or multi-professional contexts.
1, 2, 3, 4 Attribute 2: Creative and critical thinking, and problem solving
Graduates are effective problems-solvers, able to apply critical, creative and evidence-based thinking to conceive innovative responses to future challenges.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Attribute 3: Teamwork and communication skills
Graduates convey ideas and information effectively to a range of audiences for a variety of purposes and contribute in a positive and collaborative manner to achieving common goals.
5, 6 Attribute 4: Professionalism and leadership readiness
Graduates engage in professional behaviour and have the potential to be entrepreneurial and take leadership roles in their chosen occupations or careers and communities.
5, 6 Attribute 5: Intercultural and ethical competency
Graduates are responsible and effective global citizens whose personal values and practices are consistent with their roles as responsible members of society.
1, 3, 5, 6 Attribute 7: Digital capabilities
Graduates are well prepared for living, learning and working in a digital society.
2, 4, 5, 6 Attribute 8: Self-awareness and emotional intelligence
Graduates are self-aware and reflective; they are flexible and resilient and have the capacity to accept and give constructive feedback; they act with integrity and take responsibility for their actions.
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Learning Resources
Required Resources
PRIMARY and/or SECONDARY (indicative)
Selected readings from:
Marcus Boon and Gabriel Levine, eds., Practice (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018).
James Oliver, ed., Associations: Creative Practice & Research (Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing 2018).
Lydia Davis, ‘Thirty Recommendations for Good Writing Habits’, from Lydia Davis, Essays One (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019).
Lydia Davis, ‘The Story is the Thing: Lucia Berlin’s A Manual for Cleaning Women’, from Lydia Davis, Essays One (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019)
Selected readings from:
Zadie Smith, Intimations: Six Essays (New York: Penguin, 2020).
Susan Sontag, Regarding the Pain of Others (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002)
Linda Candy, The Creative Reflective Practitioner: Research Through Making and Practice (London: Routledge, 2019)
Selected readings from:
Chinua Achebe, Hopes and Impediments (London: Penguin, 1990)
Toni Morrison, The Origin of Others (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017)
Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016)
Brenda M. Green and Fred Beauford, eds., Meditations and Ascensions: Black Writers on Writing (Chicago: Third World Press, 2008)
Jerrold Levinson, ed., Aesthetics and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection, ed. Jerrold Levinson. (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006)
Agnieszka Piotrowska, ed., Creative Practice Research in the Age of Neoliberal Hopelessness (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020).
Film: The Gleaners and I, dir., Agnès Varda, 2000.
Steve Almond, ‘From Workshop to Marketplace: How to Find the Right Readers’, Association or Writers & Writing Programs, 2014, online.
Selections from:
Wayne Booth, The Company We Keep: An Ethics of Fiction (Berkeley: U California P, 1988)
Lydia Davis, ‘Commentary on One Very Short Story’, from Lydia Davis, Essays One (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019).
Film: Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, dir. Griffin Dunne, 2017.
Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2023 (London: Bloomsbury)
Raymond Carver, ‘Beginners’, The New Yorker, 24 December 2007
Raymond Carver, ‘Letters to an Editor: Letters from Raymond Carver to Gordon Lish’, The New Yorker, 24 December 2007.
Simon Armitage, ‘Rough Crossings: The Cutting of Raymond Carver’, The New Yorker, 24 December 2007
Joan Didion, ‘On Keeping a Notebook’, Slouching Towards Bethlehem (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968).
Mike Ashenfelder, ‘Your Personal Archiving Project: Where Do You Start’, The Signal, Library of Congress, online.
Readings from Charles Merrewether, ed., The Archive (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006).
Lydia Davis, Essays One (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019); Section: ‘The Practice of Writing’ (pgs 141-264)
Readings from
Tanya Harrod, ed. Craft (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2018).
Annie Dillard, The Writing Life (New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2013)
Film: Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, dir. Sophie Fiennes, 2010.
Roland Barthes, ‘The Death of the Author’
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Learning & Teaching Activities
Learning & Teaching Modes
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Workload
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Learning Activities Summary
LECTURE TOPIC (indicative)
Creative Practice Today: Issues and Approaches
The Daily Practice
The Writer-Critic
What We Owe (Ourselves and Everyone Else)
Building a Community We Can Trust to Tell Us the Truth
Reflection and Self-Critique
Publishing, Production, Dissemination
Managing Relationships
Keeping an Archive
Crises: The Blank Page, The Insoluble Knot, The Car That Stalls
Sustainability: Marathon vs Sprint
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Assessment Summary
Participation (online forums); summative and formative 10% (300 words per post)
1,500-word research Essay; formative and summative 40%
4,500-word Creative Project; formative and summative 50%Assessment Detail
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Course Grading
Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:
M10 (Coursework Mark Scheme) Grade Mark Description FNS Fail No Submission F 1-49 Fail P 50-64 Pass C 65-74 Credit D 75-84 Distinction HD 85-100 High Distinction CN Continuing NFE No Formal Examination RP Result Pending Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations.
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