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Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) (Creative Writing)

Expand your creative skills. Explore interdisciplinary communication potential. Develop research knowledge.

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Campus
Wollongong
Delivery ?
On Campus
Duration
3 years full-time or part-time equivalent
Starts
  • Autumn 2025
  • Autumn 2026
Codes
CRICOS: 006983G
UOW: 843

Overview

The Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) year is for students who have done well throughout their degree. If you have a distinction average or higher, the honours year offers an additional year of study to pursue both critical and creative projects.

For your critical work, you will focus on one topic from your undergraduate degree, writing a thesis or exegesis; while for your creative project, you will produce a major body of work in your chosen discipline. In both instances, the honours year allows you to pursue a topic or theme you are interested in with a supervisor who is there to encourage and support you.

Potential employers appreciate the honours degree because it demonstrates that students can achieve complex goals, meet deadlines, investigate independently, use resources effectively, and write clearly.

See the course handbook for more information.

The honours year offers students the chance to pursue in-depth critical and creative projects and acts as a bridge between undergraduate study and advanced research.

As a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) student, you will also work alongside exceptional artists and learn firsthand how to become a professional practitioner in this expansive sector by immersing yourself in the wider artistic community.

You can specialise in a major by choosing from the following: 

Major 

Campus Availability 

Creative Writing 

Wollongong (On Campus) 

Music 

Wollongong (On Campus) 

Visual Arts 

Wollongong (On Campus) 

Visual Arts and Design 

Wollongong (On Campus) 

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Creative Writing (major)

The creative writing major equips you with skills and strategies to refine your writing, helping you express ideas in imaginative ways that will impact your readers. In the digital age, writing is becoming more central to the way we communicate with each other. This course is designed to teach you to think about image, scene and story.

Core subjects will teach you the foundation for editing, writing across borders, genre and form, contemporary theory and research practice and you will explore social justice and children's literature. Students will work on a major project allowing them to develop a significant piece of creative content on completion of their degree.

Various artist and writer-in-residence programs take place throughout your degree, and you will be encouraged to participate in extracurricular activities, facilitate public readings, perform your written work and pursue publication. There are opportunities to combine writing genres and explore the intersections between writing and other creative disciplines.

Creative writers work in a range of areas: poetry, editing, writing for multimedia, commercial and content writing, commercial theatre and performance, short stories and novels, or even in ways that combine or challenge these forms.

Careers

  • Communications Specialist
  • Curator
  • Digital Content Creator
  • Editor
  • Features Writer
  • Graphic Designer
  • Musician
  • Social Media Manager
  • Visual Artist
  • Visual Communications Marketer
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Admissions information

A range of admission options are available for future students. The procedures governing admission are defined in UOW's Admissions Procedures, and the UOW College Admissions Policy.

For specific advice or to ask any questions regarding an application, please contact the UOW Future Students Team.

Prospective candidates need to possess a high level of research competency and a strong foundation in theoretical work; they should have a demonstrated ability to focus on a defined topic and to sustain an argument. In general, students who have completed the requirements of a Bachelor of Creative Arts degree (or an approved equivalent degree) and achieved at least a distinction average may apply to undertake the Bachelor of Creative Arts Honours degree in their major study area.

Admission to Honours is by recommendation of the relevant Honours Coordinator and approval by the Head of Students of the Faculty, as well as acceptance by an academic supervisor/s in the discipline

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International Course fees table
Campus Delivery method Session fee* Course fee*
WollongongOn Campus$16800 (2025)$33600 (2025)
WollongongOn Campus$16800 (2026)$33600 (2026)

* Session fees are for one session for the year shown. Total course tuition fees shown are indicative, and are based on normal course length and progression. These fees are subject to change from year to year. However, if you receive an offer to study at UOW, your fees will be fully confirmed at the time of your offer.

Tuition fees are reviewing annually: fees payable are dependent on the year of commencement and are subject to increase during the period of study

Additional Fees

In addition to tuition, there are other fees and costs you will need to consider, including but not limited to:

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