Single degrees
Bachelor of Creative Arts (ABCA) – Melbourne (Bundoora)
This three-year degree consists of 360 credit points, 120 credit points at each year level for full-time study. Part-time is also available. Students choose units from those listed and can choose to focus their degree around one of the areas of creative writing, writing for the screen and the media, criticism or performance and production; or may combine units from several of these areas.
First year (120 credit points)
In their first year students study five units (75 credit points) from the following list of first year units. The remaining three units (45 credit points) are Elective units and may be selected from this list or from other university units.
| Teaching period | Unit title | Unit code |
|---|---|---|
| TE-SEM-1 | Introducing Literature: the short story | ENG1ILS |
| TE-SEM-1 | Introduction to Film Analysis | CST1IFA |
| TE-SEM-1 | Screen Narrative: television, film and video games1 | CST1SNT |
| TE-SEM-1 | Screenplay Analysis1 | CST1SCA |
| TE-SEM-1 | Theatre Knowledge and Practices | DRA1TKP |
| TE-SEM-2 | Introduction to Screenwriting | CST1ITS |
| TE-SEM-2 | Making Sense of the Movies | CST1MSM |
| TE-SEM-2 | Process-based Performance | DRA1PBP |
| TE-SEM-2 | Text, Criticism and the Visual | ENG1TCV |
| TE-SEM-2 | Writing your Own Life | ENG1WYL |
- Key: 1 Not available in 2008.
Second year (120 credit points)
Students select four units (80 credit points) from the second year units listed below. The remaining two units (40 credit points) are Elective units and may be selected from this list or from other university units.
Third year (120 credit points)
Students select four units (80 credit points) from the third year units listed below including the compulsory core unit CST3CIP Creative Industry Research. The remaining two units (40 credit points) are Elective units and may be selected from this list or from other university units.
Students should check individual discipline listings for availability of the following units.
| Unit title | Unit code |
|---|---|
| Advanced Performance Making | DRA3APM |
| Advanced Screenwriting | CST2ADS/CST3ADS |
| Australian Drama from 1955 to the Present Day | DRA3AUD/DRA3AUD |
| Broadcast and Electronic Journalism | MST3BEJ |
| Creating Non-Fiction | HUS3CNF |
| Creative Industry Research 2 | CST3CIP |
| Drama Performance Making | DRA2PEM |
| English: a user’s guide | LIN2EUG/LIN3EUG |
| Screen Criticism | CST2FCR/CST3FCR |
| Group Production | DRA3PRO |
| Intercultural Performance | DRA2IPF/DRA3IPF |
| Introduction to Video Practice | CST3VID |
| Media Ethics | PHI2MET/PHI3MET |
| Modern Drama A | DRA2MOA/DRA3MOA |
| Narrative Analysis A | ENG2NAA/ENG3NAA |
| Publishing and Editing | MST3PAE |
| Re-thinking Jane Austen | ENG2RJA/ENG3RJA |
| Screenplay as Narrative Form | CST2SCN/CST3SCN |
| Script Development | CST3SED |
| Shakespeare in Adaptation | ENG2SIA/ENG3SIA |
| Shakespeare in Performance | DRA2SIP/DRA3SIP |
| Storytelling and the Cinema | CST2SAC |
| Theatre and Theory | DRA2TAT/DRA3TAT |
| Theatre Production | DRA2TPR/DRA3TPR |
| Writing and Editing for Multi-Media | MST3WEM |
| Writing Autobiography | ENG3WAB |
| Writing Fiction | ENG2WFI/ENG2WFI |
| Writing for Radio | MST2WFR/MST3WFR |
| Writing for Video | MST2WFV/MST3WFV |
| Writing Poetry | ENG2WRP/ENG3WRP |
| Writing, the Internet and Performance | DRA2WIP/DRA3WIP |
- Key: 2 Core unit.
Honours
The honours program is designed to provide students with an opportunity to develop skills, which will prepare them for further academic study or for work in specific fields involving creative writing, screenwriting, writing for the media and theatre production.
Students are selected into honours at the end of their third year. Prospective students should make their interest known to the Creative Arts Honours Coordinator by November for commencement in semester one or early June for commencement in second semester.
The normal requirement for selection is consistently high performance (at least a B average) in the creative arts units.
The Bachelor of Creative Arts honours year allows students to:
- incorporate more than one discipline i.e., Creative Arts 4, or
- concentrate on one discipline i.e., Cinema Studies 4, English 4 or Theatre and Drama 4.
Creative Arts 4
The course consists of:
- two fourth year units offered by the cinema, English, media studies or theatre and drama programs
- a thesis which consists of a negotiated practical project in script writing, creative writing, performance or production which explores a research question, and
- a 5000-word exegesis to support the thesis.
Students wishing to concentrate on one discipline should check the requirements for honours in the Cinema studies, English or Theatre and Drama sections of this Handbook.