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English Language and Literature

• #1 in Australia
• #18 in the world
• 2023 QS World University rankings

English and Writing

Placing first in Australia and 18th internationally in the 2023 QS World University rankings for English Language and Literature, our discipline is held in very high regard. With more than 30 full-time staff, we have one of the largest cohorts of academics specialising in English and Creative Writing.

Our lecturers have a broad range of expertise traversing genres, authors and historical periods in English literature and language, as well as Australian, American and Irish literatures, literary theory, film and television studies, writing and rhetorical studies, and creative writing.

Our study offering

Creative writing - postgraduate and research.

Explore and develop your skills in fiction, non-fiction, poetry and other forms of writing. Gain a deep understanding of theories and histories of writing and develop the core skills of writing, structuring and editing. We give you intimate access to Sydney’s literary life, including a constant calendar of readings, performances, major literary and cultural events, and a host of celebrated visitors.

Postgraduate coursework 

Master of creative writing.

• Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing
• Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing
• Doctor of Philosophy
• Master of Philosophy  
• Master of Arts (Research)  
• Doctor of Social Sciences

English - undergraduate

Bring together contemporary critical theory with literary narratives and investigate how and why literature remains an influential cultural form in the 21st century. Consider the ways in which the study of literature works within a specifically Australian cultural context and explore the expansion of literary and cultural narratives across a broad transnational framework.

Undergraduate

• English (major) *
• English (minor) *
• English (Honours)

*Available to all students studying the  Bachelor of Arts ,  Bachelor of Economics  and  Bachelor of Visual Arts , as well as all combined  Bachelor of Advanced Studies  degrees.  

English - research

English has a vital research culture and offers postgraduate supervision across an extensive range of areas. These include: Medieval and Early Modern Literature; Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Literature; Modern and Contemporary Literature; Australian and Aboriginal literature and culture; American literature and culture; British and Irish literature; world literatures; literary and cultural theories; studies in gender and sexuality; film and TV studies; scholarly editing and language studies; poetry, poetics, drama and the novel; rhetoric, aesthetics, hermeneutics and semantics; and creative writing.

• Doctor of Arts
• Master of Philosophy
• Master of Arts (Research)

English Studies - postgraduate

English Studies delves into contemporary critical theory, the enduring significance of literature in the 21st century, and Australian literary works. It offers critical reading, literary history, and exploration of English as world literature. Tailored for research students, secondary school teachers, and literature enthusiasts seeking advanced studies.

Postgraduate coursework

Master of english studies.

• Graduate Certificate in English Studies
• Graduate Diploma in English Studies

Writing Studies - undergraduate

Drawing from established research in a wide range of fields, in Writing Studies you will learn to combine various research methods including rhetorical, discourse and textual analysis to examine written, spoken and visual texts at various stages of production, from conception to transmission and consumption.

• Writing Studies minor*

*Available to all students studying the  Bachelor of Arts ,  Bachelor of Economics  and  Bachelor of Visual Arts , as well as all combined  Bachelor of Advanced Studies  degrees.

Master of English Studies explained

Our research.

Through our leading researchers, we have have expertise across these areas:

• The Novel, Drama, Poetry
• Literary history
• Literary and cultural theory
• National and Global literatures
• Language studies
• Creative writing and practice-led research
• Academic writing and rhetorical studies
• Film and television studies

Research groups and projects

The novel network.

The Novel Network group examines the relationship between the novel and the ‘everyday’.

Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture

The  Modern and Contemporary Literature and Culture group seeks to develop intellectual and creative ties with contemporary practitioners of all kinds.

The Medieval and Early Modern Centre

The Medieval and Early Modern Centre  explores the historical, literary, linguistic, musical and artistic history of the medieval and early modern world.

The Shakespeare Reloaded/Better Strangers project

Combining the experience and skills of academics and school teachers, the Shakespeare Reloaded/Better Strangers project develops fresh approaches to the teaching of Shakespeare, producing educational activities for the classroom, professional development workshops and the publication of research outputs on the theory and practice of pedagogy. 

Academic staff

• Professor   Daniel Anlezark
• Dr  Vanessa Berry
• Dr Nienke Boer
• Dr Meg Brayshaw
• Professor  Mark Byron
• Dr  Belinda Castles
• Dr  Anthony Cordingley
• Associate Professor Frances Di Lauro
• Dr Kirk Dodd
• Dr Briohny Doyle
• Dr Bronwen Dyson
• Dr Jedidiah Evans
• Dr Toby Fitch
• Associate Professor  Sarah Gleeson-White
• Associate Professor  Huw Griffiths
• Associate Professor  Melissa Hardie
• Dr  Isabelle Hesse
• Dr Alex Howard
• Associate Professor  Rebecca Johinke
• Dr Benjamin Miller
• Dr  Peter Minter
• Dr  Nicola Parsons
• Dr  Nicholas Riemer
• Professor  Liam Semler
• Associate Professor  Jan Shaw
• Professor  Vanessa Smith
• Dr  Matthew Sussman
• Associate Professor Susan Thomas
• Dr Lucas Thompson
• Dr Beth Yahp

Key academic contacts

• Associate Professor Rebecca Johinke , Chair of Discipline
• Dr Anthony Cordingley , Undergraduate Course Component Coordinator
• Associate Professor Sarah Gleeson-White , Honours Coordinator
• Dr  Belinda Castles , Postgraduate Program Coordinator, Creative Writing
• Dr  Meg Brayshaw , Postgraduate Program Coordinator, English Studies (Semester 1)
• Dr  Nicola Parsons , Postgraduate Program Coordinator, English Studies (Semester 2)
• Professor Vanessa Smith , Research Director

Honorary Associates

• Emeritus Professor  Geraldine Barnes
• Associate Professor  David G. Brooks
• Emeritus Professor  Margaret Clunies Ross
• Dr  Jessica Milner Davis
• Ms Michelle de Kretser
• Emeritus Professor  John Frow
• Emeritus Professor Robert Dixon
• Dr Kathleen French
• Emeritus Professor  Penny Gay
• Professor Paul Giles
• Associate Professor  Jenny Gribble
• Professor Emeritus Margaret Harris
• Dr Meegan Hasted
• Associate Professor  Rosemary Huisman
• Dr  Louise Katz
• Associate Professor  Peter Kirkpatrick
• Associate Professor Kate Lilley
• Emeritus Professor  Peter Marks
• Dr  Beverley Sherry
• Professor Emeritus Matthew Spriggs
• Associate Professor Brigid Rooney
• Dr Daniel Tyler
• Emeritus Professor  Michael Wilding
• Dr  Sue Woolfe

Visit the School's events calendar  to see our upcoming events and seminars about English, literature, and creative writing.

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The Master of Creative Writing is designed to enable students to explore and develop skills in fiction, non-fiction, poetry and other forms of writing in a stimulating academic environment. Emphasis is on developing core skills of writing, structuring and editing in tandem with understanding theories, histories and practices of writing. Our students work in experimental or traditional ways within, across or between genres and media. We offer you intimate access to Sydney’s literary life, including a constant calendar of readings, performances, major literary and cultural events, and a host of celebrated visitors. We support all kinds of literary ambition in a setting that builds capacity, encourages diversity and experimentation, and supports professional writing. As well as core units in the fundamentals of research-led creative practice, critical contexts for creative writing and, writers at work, we offer specialised multi-genre workshop units focussing on narrative writing, experiments in form and life writing. In many units of study you will work in small groups with distinguished staff and visitors to extend and deepen your writing and close reading skills, thinking and engagement with the work of others. As well as coursework, all master's students undertake a substantial, individually supervised creative dissertation or project and participate in a lively calendar of readings, talks and symposia. Writers on staff include Vanessa Berry, Belinda Castles, Toby Fitch, Peter Minter and Beth Yahp. Visitors to the program have included Peter Boyle, Pam Brown, Ali Cobby Eckermann, Michael Farrell, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Gail Jones, Michelle de Kretser, David Malouf, Drusilla Modjeska, Eileen Myles, Felicity Plunkett, John Tranter, Barrett Watten, Ceridwen Dovey, Julie Koh, Michael Mohammed Ahmad, Kate Forsyth, Mireille Juchau, Fiona McFarlane and Charlotte Wood. See also: English Studies

Awards and requirements

Please refer to the course rules in this handbook for information on the specific admission requirements for different award courses. Master of Creative Writing Candidates for the Master of Creative Writing must complete 72 credit points of units of study, including:

• 18 credit points from core units of study
• a minimum of 6 credit points and maximum of 12 credit points from capstone units of study
• a minimum of 18 credit points and maximum of 36 credit points from workshop selective units of study
• a minimum of 6 credit points and a maximum of 30 credit points from elective units of study.

Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing Candidates for the Graduate Diploma in Creative Writing must complete 48 credit points of units of study, including:

• a minimum of 18 credit points and a maximum of 24 credit points from workshop selective units of study
• a maximum of 12 credit points from electrive units of study.

Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing Candidates for Graduate Certificate in Creative Writing must complete 24 credit points of units of study, including:

• a minimum of 6 credit points from core units of study
• 12 credit points from workshop selective units of study
• a maximum of 6 credit points from elective units of study.

Learning outcomes

At the completion of the Master of Creative Writing, a student will be able to:

Reduced volume of learning (RVL)

Candidates who have completed previous study in a relevant discipline may be eligible for a reduction in the requirements in accordance with the table below:

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English & creative writing

English and creative writing at UNSW School of the Arts & Media houses a passionate group of writers and scholars working in diverse fields. Our research consistently achieves high rankings. In the latest (2018) Excellence for Research in Australia (ERA) assessment, we scored 5 for creative writing (well above world standard) and 4 for literary studies (above world standard). 

Our internationally renowned researchers produce monographs, novels, poetry collections, edited collections and essays in major international journals. We attract significant external funding from the Australia Council and Australian Research Council (ARC). We also receive support from international funding bodies such as the Research England Development Fund, the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences Research Council, the Swedish Research Council and the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO). 

Our academics include the presidents of the Australasian Association for Literature and the Association for the Study of the Australian Literature (ASAL), the incoming president of the International Society for the Study of Narrative, as well as past and present executive members of the Australian University Heads of English.

English and creative writing at UNSW Sydney is home to a thriving postgraduate research culture, with a strong record of successful completions in a broad range of areas. We particularly welcome research proposals in any of the fields below. 

Research strengths

UNSW School of the Arts & Media is the largest hub globally for research in Australian literature. We address the global dimensions of Australian writing, including diasporic and expatriate writing, writing by refugees and asylum seekers, Indigenous writers alongside continuing engagement with more foundational works. 

Among our many recent publications are monographs on Christina Stead and America, and on literary islands and colonialism, as well as edited collections on the works of Elizabeth Harrower, Antigone Kefala and Shirley Hazzard. Our academics include the president and two former presidents of the peak scholarly body ASAL. We also host Southerly, Australia’s oldest literary journal. 

The large and constant flow of local and international postgraduate students expand and invigorate our research strength in contemporary studies in Australian literature. Our many institutional and publishing activities create a wealth of opportunities for our students’ academic and professional development. 

We welcome enquiries about higher degree research (HDR) supervision across all areas of Australian literature. Recent projects include: queer Australian masculinities; the Australian girl; contemporary Indigenous women’s writing; sound and Australian literature; Brian Castro and weird English; Indigenous speculative writing and ecopoetics; Australia and utopia; studies of Antigone Kefala and Eleanor Dark; and a biography of Marjorie Barnard. 

UNSW School of the Arts & Media has a long history of excellence in modernist studies. Our research spans a wide variety of topics within the broad field of modernist studies, including modernist poetics, the modernist novel, modernist periodical studies, and modernism and media. 

Our research addresses the formal experiments and political meanings of modernism’s responses to and critiques of global modernity. Recent publications include edited collections on modernism and sound, modernism and technology, and modernism and work. Our academics also regularly publish articles on modernist and modernism-adjacent subjects in leading journals. Among our academics are the treasurer of the Australasian Modernist Studies Network and two editors of the network’s journal Affirmations: of the modern.

Our school welcomes research proposals on all aspects of modernist literature and culture. Recent projects include: studies of rhythm in modernist short fiction; philosophical poetry in a time of crisis; bodily experience in the writing of Virginia Woolf; architectural subjectivity in the fiction of Elizabeth Bowen, Jean Rhys and Christina Stead; and ‘textual becoming’ in Proust.

UNSW School of the Arts & Media’s renowned literary historical research fosters interdisciplinary dialogues between literature and artificial intelligence, literature and visual culture, literature and sound, literature and the history of political struggle, book history and literary biography.  

Our research includes work on historical poetics and the historical development of the novel, with a strong focus on archival research. Work includes an editorial project on Charlotte Bronte and a large collaborative project on ‘Rioting and the literary archive’, which traces literature’s enduring engagement with forms of popular resistance and riotous assembly. 

Recent publications include a range of monographs and edited collections, as well as pieces in major international journals, such as ELH, NLH, Textual Practice, Victorian Studies, Modernism/Modernity, Studies in the Novel, and NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction. Our academics have edited special issues of Poetics Today, on narrative theory and the history of the novel, and of Critical Quarterly, on historical poetics and the problem of exemplarity. Forthcoming publications include an edited collection on ‘Writing the global riot: literature in a time of crisis’, the ‘Edinburgh companion to literary sound studies’ and the authorised biography of Australian-US author Shirley Hazzard. UNSW is also home to the  Juvenilia Press .  

Postgraduate supervision encompasses diverse areas of literary history, ranging from single-author studies to more expansive thematic and historical approaches. Projects include: studies of voice in the 19th-century novel; literary precarity; reading domestic spaces; Thomas Chatterton and the performance of literary professionalism; writer characters in fiction from the 1890s to the present; the Anthropocene in science fiction; time and empathy in cognitive literary criticism; and the sonic animal in 19th-century fiction. 

UNSW School of the Arts & Media has a strong focus on literary theory and literary approaches to philosophy. Our researchers are experts in queer theory, feminism, narratology, postcolonial theory, animal studies, ecocriticism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, Derridean and de Manian deconstruction and Deleuze studies. We engage with figures as diverse as Søren Kierkegaard, Alain Badiou, Maurice Blanchot, Bruno Latour, Peter Sloterdijk, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud, G. W. F. Hegel, Jacques Rancière, Slavoj Žižek and Jacques Lacan.  

The work of our academics has appeared in monographs and journals such as symploke, Substance, Angelaki, Continental Philosophy Review, Filozofski vestnik and Crisis & Critique. We also engage in large international and national research projects investigating literary and critical climate change. Forthcoming publications include the ‘Routledge companion to narrative theory’ which locates the novel in the context of the larger multidisciplinary study of narrative, and a special issue of S: Journal on the work of the contemporary French philosopher Barbara Cassin. 

UNSW School of the Arts & Media’s research in world literatures spans the fields of postcolonial, diasporic and transnational literary studies. Australia’s settler colonial history means we engage in ways that contribute to and shape the dynamic fields of postcolonial and transnational writing. We focus on works in English, in translation and in other languages. One key question is: What do we do with texts when they circulate outside their context of origin?  

From the deployment of big data to close textual analysis, our research examines both the aesthetics and politics of literary representation in context, as well as the modes of literary production and the circulations of literature in globalised modernity.  

We’re interested in the networks of Australia’s diverse writing cultures and the circulation of their work in global contexts. Our publications range from colonialist histories and imaginaries to the production and circulation of contemporary Iranian literature, to questions of trans-Indigenous writing and representation.  

Recent and forthcoming monographs by our academics include Christina Stead and America, the imaginary geographies of colonialism and Iranian literature since the revolution. Themed issues of Southerly include the writing of detained refugees, the Persian diaspora, the inter-generational legacies of migration in Australia and the mobility of textual circulation. 

We have many local and international postgraduate students working on topics ranging from Irish-language poetics to Iranian women’s romance fiction, to contemporary African fiction. Our school is a long-standing sponsor of the Institute of World Literature (Harvard University) and UNSW academics and postgraduate students regularly participate in the institute’s summer programs. PhD projects include: post-Independence African novels; psychogeography and the novel; domestic violence in postcolonial writing; and Irish women’s writing. 

Creative writing at UNSW School of the Arts & Media is a dynamic program, boasting researchers who are award-winning novelists and poets. Our academics have won numerous prizes including the Literary Fiction Book of the Year in the Australian Book Industry Awards, the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction and the Best Young Australian Novelist award. They have also been shortlisted for the Victorian and NSW Premier’s Awards and the Newcastle Poetry Prize. 

We have judged major prizes such as the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the ALS Gold Medal. We publish creative work in Australia’s top literary journals such as Meanjin, Overland, Island, Westerly, Southerly, Cordite Poetry Review and Australian Poetry Journal. 

Our researchers are committed to public and cultural engagement and frequently collaborate with the broader publishing industry and media outlets. We have longstanding relationships with the Adelaide International Festival, Tasmanian Writers’ Festival, Perth Writers’ Festival, Asialink, Varuna, The Writers’ House and the Oxford Centre for Life Writing at Wolfson College, Oxford University. 

Editing and publishing at the School of the Arts & Media plays a leading role in the dissemination of traditional and non-traditional research. We explore new forms of scholarly communication as editors and editorial board members of academic journals such as Affirmations, Southerly, S: Journal, Continental Thought & Theory, Journal of World Literature and Iranian Studies. 

We promote strong international outreach through our founding role in Open Humanities Press, which publishes open-access journals and books in a variety of humanities fields. Bernard Stiegler, Timothy Morton, Claire Colebrook, Joanna Zylinska and Isabelle Stengers, among others, have been published recently. 

Southerly magazine is Australia’s oldest literary journal and publishes scholarly work on Australian literature alongside creative fiction and prose. Southerly is particularly notable among Australia’s literary journals for publishing more fiction and poetry, and it also publishes essays, commentary and reviews. The themed component of each issue is often prompted by research interests of UNSW academics including intergenerational migrant writing; Utopian fiction; writing by refugees in Australian detention centres; and transnational writing cultures of the Persian diaspora in Australia. 

Our academics are also working on Live Crossings , an online open-access creative practice magazine publishing work by refugees and asylum-seekers as well as Indigenous writers and artists.

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Literature and Creative Writing are vibrant areas of teaching and research at Western Sydney University , involving both the School of Humanities and Communication Arts and the Writing and Society Research Centre (which houses the leading journal The Sydney Review of Books and multi-award-winning literary press Giramondo Publishing).

This discipline is driven by a strong academic team who have national and international reputations in literary scholarship and creative writing, with multiple funded research projects currently active. The area includes undergraduate majors in English and in Creative Writing. We also have a Master of Arts in Literature and Creative Writing which works alongside the Master of Research, and a highly successful Doctor of Creative Arts and PhD supervision track record with distinguished alumni who have won major awards as writers of fiction, poetry and non-fiction. Our teaching research and engagement has been recognised in the Impact and Engagement assessment as achieving high impact and approaches to impact, and both English and Creative Writing have been ranked at or above world standard in each of the three Excellence in Research for Australia surveys.

Academics for this Discipline

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• Dr Helen Basides, Associate Lecturer
• Dr Christopher Conti, Lecturer
• Dr Ben Etherington, Senior Research Lectureship
• Professor Ivor Indyk, Whitlam Chair
• Dr Helen Koukoutsis, Associate Lecturer
• Dr Catriona Menzies-Pike, Editor, Sydney Review of Books
• Associate Professor Christopher Peterson
• Dr Lorraine Sim, Senior Lecturer
• Professor Anthony Uhlmann
• Dr Anne Jamison, Senior Lecturer
• Dr Dianne Dickenson, Lecturer
• Dr James Gourley, Senior Lecturer
• Associate Professor Matthew McGuire
• Dr Kate Fagan, Senior Lecturer

Western Sydney University has been ranked in the Top 15 Universities in Australia and top 250 worldwide for English Language and Literature, in this year's QS World University Rankings by Subject .

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Unearth and connect the shared skills between writer, editor and publisher. With the Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing, you can gain a globally recognised, vocationally viable qualification designed with the changing nature of the publishing industry in mind.

This program has a practical focus aimed at building your knowledge and skill set across a broad spectrum of writing, publishing and editing, including digital writing and publishing, fiction and non‐fiction writing, print production, advanced editing for books and magazines and writing for young adults.

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The Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing is for those who currently work in the creative writing, editing and publishing industry, or have recently completed an undergraduate degree. This qualification is for you if you want to build your project management, research and critical thinking in writing, editing and publishing projects, or develop sound knowledge of the commercial impetus of the global publishing industry.

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Approved Abbreviation: MArtsLitCrWr

Western Sydney University Course Code: 1797.1

CRICOS Code: 086120C

Students should follow the course structure for the course version relevant to the year they commenced. This version applies to students whose commencement year for this course is 2015.

The Writing and Society Research Centre offers a challenging, rigorous degree combining criticism and creativity leading to a Master of Arts in Literature and Creative Writing. The Master of Arts (MA) takes advantage of the unique strengths of the Centre which includes internationally renowned literary scholars, novelists, poets and translators, an important literary publishing house (Giramondo), the preeminent literary review in Australia (the Sydney Review of Books), and access to the vibrant literary culture currently emerging from Western Sydney and gaining national attention. The MA links theory and practice, and students can either concentrate on critical or creative work, or work with both forms.

Students who wish to pursue higher study at a doctoral level can apply for entry into the Masters of Research and apply for up to 80 credit points of advanced standing for completing the year one units. Any student wishing to apply for entry into year 2 of the Master of Research must have a supervisor/supervisory panel in place and a detailed research proposal (2500 words) which must be submitted with the application. In addition, applications are to advise that 80 credit points of advanced standing approval is being sought.

Study Mode Two years full-time or four years part-time.

A Bachelor degree in humanities, social sciences, society and culture or creative arts. Providing a 500 word writing sample (an essay or creative work) to be assessed by Writing and Society staff.

Applications from Australian and New Zealand citizens and holders of permanent resident visas must be made via the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC).

Applicants who have undertaken studies overseas may have to provide proof of proficiency in English. Local and International applicants who are applying through the Universities Admissions Centre (UAC) will find details of minimum English proficiency requirements and acceptable proof on the UAC website. Local applicants applying directly to the University should also use the information provided on the UAC website.

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International applicants must apply directly to Western Sydney University via the International Office.

International students applying to The University through the International Office can find details of minimum English proficiency requirements and acceptable proof on their website.

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Overseas qualifications must be deemed by the Australian Education International - National Office of Overseas Skills Recognition (AEI-NOOSR) to be equivalent to Australian qualifications in order to be considered by UAC and Western Sydney University.

Course Structure

Qualification for this award requires the successful completion of 160 or 120 credit points including the units listed in the recommended sequence below.

Recommended sequence

Full-time Start year Intake

One unit from the pool units below

Autumn session

Students may graduate at this stage with a Graduate Certificate in Literature and Creative Writing after the successful completion of 40 credit points of study.

1799 - Graduate Certificate in Literature and Creative Writing

Students may graduate at this stage with a Graduate Diploma in Literature and Creative Writing after the successful completion of 80 credit points of study.

1798 - Graduate Diploma in Literature and Creative Writing

Optional Entry Point to the Masters of Research.

Students who wish to pursue higher study at a doctoral level can apply for entry into the Masters of Research and apply for up to 80 credit points of advanced standing for completing the year one units.

Students may graduate at this stage with a Master of Arts in Literature and Creative Writing after sucessful completion of 120 credit points of study.

Please note: International and Domestic students wishing to take a two-year degree would have the option of either articulating to the Master of Research in second year, OR completing 102255 - Masters Project unit and taking an additional 40 credit points of coursework units, either from the Humanities and Communication Arts (HCA) Master of Research pool of units, or units from other MA courses in HCA in Year 2.

Full-time Mid year Intake

Spring session

Please note: Not all pool units will be on offer in each year. Units will be offered on a rotating basis.

The timeline for part-time students over 4 years will involve all coursework units listed above to be completed prior to the commencement of the Masters Project. In normal circumstances the coursework units will be completed by the end of the second year of a part time degree, yet this can be determined on a case by case basis.

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