Bachelor of Arts (Writing and Creative Communication)

Is Writing and Creative Communication for you?

Are you interested in writing, editing and publishing?

Are you looking for a more practical approach to the study of English?

Are you keen to know how texts of all kinds are produced?

Entry requirements

SACE Entry: no special requirements or prerequisites – just a love of the language arts!

New program, but TER probably c. 55-60

Can articulate with the TAFE writing program

Adult and special entry available

Bridging Programs: Dip Uni Studies, etc

Tertiary transfer possibilities and credit for degrees already gained

The WCC Program

• a development of UniSA’s highly successful BA (Professional Writing and Communication)/ (Professional and Creative Communication) programs, which ran for 12 years

• incorporates all of the aspects of writing and reading texts, plus the opportunity to work with visual, oral, symbolic and electronic texts

• special emphasis placed on integrating studies with the work of community, creative and professional industries

The Teaching Team

• Prime Minister’s Award for University Teaching Team of the Year and Australian Awards for University Teaching in the Humanities and the Arts, 2000

• Strong national professional and industry links: Australian Association of Writing Programs, Society of Editors, SA Writers’ Centre, publishing houses, etc

• International recognition: publications, conference presentations, visiting scholars, leading edge teaching and learning methods

• Workplace consultancies and network for employment opportunities

BA (WCC) Program structure

Contact Hours: usually 2-3 hours per course per study period (plus extra time for group meetings, individual study, reading and writing)

Enrolment Options – Full-time or part- time

Taught on the Magill campus in internal mode – tutorials, seminars, workshops; some online content

Continuous assessment (writing, drafting, presenting, etc)

What does the BA (WCC) involve?

WCC deals with• how we construct texts• how we analyse and think about texts • a wide range of texts: creative, literary,

professional and technical• the whole process of how texts are

produced and received: from planning and drafting stages to editing, publication, distribution and consumption

What does the BA (WCC) involve? (Continued)

Creative writing

Literary practice

Technical writing

Editing and publishing

Linguistics and sociolinguistics

The rhetoric and ethnography of communication

Englishes around the world

Communication in social and cultural contexts

Oral traditions and literacy

The impact of changing technologies on communication

Skills and understanding of a variety of media used in the production and reception of texts

Communication within professional contexts

Tailor your Degree – a Range of Choices

• You can choose from a wide range of submajors and individual elective courses in other programs to value add your BA(WCC)

OR• Take one of the BA(WCC) submajors in another degree

Writing and Creative Communication Literary Practice Editing and Publishing

OR• Concentrate your focus on Writing and Creative

Communication by adding a submajor in Literary Practice Editing and Publishing

Experience. The Difference.

Industry Links and placementsStudents as writers and researchersWriting and Creative Communication

projects: writing, publication and performance• Publication of class and personal work for

public sale (e.g. SA Writers’ Centre launches)

• External and in-house editing projects• Level 3 coursework projects

Student publications and outlets: • Orrmulum• Piping Shrike

Experience. The Difference.

Career and life opportunitiesEmployment• editing, copywriting, document design, project

coordination, technical writing, public relations, scriptwriting, online writing and design, etc (freelance and ‘attached’)

• teaching – secondary English and primary

Creativity• written: poetry, nonfiction, novels, short fiction, scripts

• other text production: visual, online, oral, etc

Further study• Honours, Grad Cert, MA, PhD

• Higher/more specialised qualifications

• Tertiary employment

Our graduates

Some words from our students:One of the greatest joys of UniSA degrees has to be their flexibility; by the time I had finished, I had taken so many classes across such a broad vista that I actually had to work out what I had, in fact, completed. It worked out to be a BA in Writing & Communication, sub-majoring in Film & Video with a minor in Performing Arts.

(Adele Kirby)

Some people go into university knowing exactly what they want to do, but I didn’t. It was halfway through the degree when I decided I really enjoyed editing and would like to make that my career. I love it! As part of my studies, I am now undertaking a real-life editing project . . . a 30-page document . . . It’s so practical.

(Gill Ratcliff)

Our graduates

Who will employ me?People with knowledge and skills in professional and creative communication are employed in a range of professional situations including:

> Publishing and editing

> Technical writing

> Document design

> Electronic publishing

> Research

> Information delivery

> Marketing

> Media

> Public sector administration

> Publicity

Contact details

• School of Communication booth, today

• Undergraduate Programs Officer:Jenny Stokes, ph (08) 8302 4561

• Student enquiries email; UGcomms@unisa.edu.au

• UniSA website: www.unisa.edu.au – search for information on BA(WCC) program

• School homepage: www.unisa.edu.au/com