Undergraduate Major

English and Creative Writing

Use your creative writing skills and love of the English language to tell stories in a range of different contexts and styles.

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Murdoch code
MJ-ECW
Study mode
Full Time or Part Time
Selection rank
70
CRICOS code
001572M
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Overview

The English and Creative Writing major rests on the idea of the importance of literature as a living cultural practice.

You will focus on the global significance of text as a literary form, broadly understood to include all its variants - from the short story to the sonnet, from the blog to the bildungsroman, and from pastoral to performance poetry.

Understanding the intimate relationship between the literary and the creative, you’ll get to study English literature while developing knowledge and skill in critical and creative reflection and writing practice. Therefore, you will be required to read, view, listen and write critically, professionally and creatively in response to a wide range of written, visual and other texts.

3 reasons to study English and Creative Writing at Murdoch

  1. Work with real organisations on real projects, and complete internships through our work integrated learning program. Some of our students have worked with the Blue Room, WA Fringe Festival and the Heath Ledger Theatre.
  2. Number 1 in WA for teaching quality for communications by the Good Universities Guide 2024.
  3. Showcase your creative work through local, national or even global competitions. Our students have had their writing published and won film awards that have landed them jobs with global film and music producers.

What you’ll learn

Build the knowledge and skills you need to meet your career or study goals. In this course you will:

  • Build an extensive knowledge of a broad range of texts – literary, public, performative – from the Renaissance to the present day.
  • Work to identify how texts function aesthetically, socially and politically in everyday life and as culturally specific forms of creative and professional writing, literature and performance.
  • Develop skills in professional writing and editing to create well-constructed, clear and persuasive texts and oral communications in a variety of genres, modes and styles. 

Your future career

When you graduate you could become an author or editor and will be well prepared for employment in advertising, design, teaching, public administration, journalism, publishing, computer arts, and many fields of business. Careers could include:

  • Copywriter
  • Editor
  • Journalist
  • Arts Administrator
  • Professional Writer

The industries you could work in include the arts, publishing, communications, government or even working for yourself as a freelancer.

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Structure

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Total credit points: 24

Unit code Unit name Credit points
Major24 credit points
Core Units12 credit points
EGL100Literature Matters: Transformative Theories in Reading and Writing3
EGL102Writing Creatively: An Introduction3
EGL248Novel Encounters 3
EGL300Projects in Literary Genres3
Specified Elective Units12 credit points
EGL204Bollywood: Imagined Asian Worlds3
OR
EGL206Creating New Worlds3
OR
EGL207Australian Poetry: Storytelling and the Creative Space3
OR
EGL208Gay and Queer Literature: Classic and Contemporary Texts3
OR
EGL211First Nations and World Literatures3
OR
EGL220Creative Writing: Extended Project3
OR
EGL231Poetry as Performance: Sonnet to Slam3
OR
EGL235Australian Literature and Film3
OR
EGL243Storytelling in Australia3
OR
EGL244Shakespeare and His Contemporaries: Page and Stage3
OR
EGL245Performing Shakespeare3
OR
EGL246Digital Humanities: Reading and Writing in the Online World3
OR
EGL249The Short Story: Approaches to Writing and Reading3
OR
EGL301Literature for Children and Young Adults3
OR
EGL303Border Crossings: Human Security in Literature and the Imagination3
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Entry requirements

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English Requirements

You must meet a minimum standard in English to study at Murdoch, which for most courses can be demonstrated by providing evidence that you have completed Year 11 and 12 in Australia at any level if you are a domestic student, or through either English proficiency tests, university preparation courses, English language courses, previous tertiary study or vocational education.

Other Requirements

There may be a reduction of choice of units if completing this course in the mixed, or online mode.

Advanced Standing

Everyone has a different path to university so if you’ve already completed formal or informal learning, you could receive advanced standing. Also known as recognition of prior learning, advanced standing can reduce the amount of study needed to complete your degree by giving you credit for certain units.

Formal learning can include previous study in higher education vocational education or adult and community education. Informal learning can include on the job learning, various kinds of work and life experience.

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This information applies to courses offered at our Australian campuses only. Courses offered at our Dubai  and Singapore campuses or delivered by Open Universities Australia may have different requirements.

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How much will it cost?

Instead of paying an overall course fee, you pay for the individual units you enrol in. The total course cost will vary depending on the units you choose.

Following your successful application, you’ll receive a Letter of Offer which will contain specific course and fee information.

If you are applying for an undergraduate course, you may be eligible for a Commonwealth Supported Place. Postgraduate programs are full fee paying, unless indicated otherwise in your Letter of Offer.

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