Bachelor of Arts in Creative and Professional Writing

La Trobe University - Melbourne Campus

Australia,Victoria

 0 Shortlist

36 Months

Duration

CAD 34,000/year

Tuition Fee

CAD 0 FREE

Application Fee

Mar 2025

Apply Date

Australia, Victoria

Type: University

Location Type: Semi-Urban

Founded: 1964

Total Students: 36,000 +

Int. Students: 7,000 +

Campus Detail

Main Campus Address

Plenty Road and, Kingsbury Dr, Bundoora VIC 3086, Australia

Bachelor of Arts in Creative and Professional Writing

Program Overview

With our flexible Bachelor of Arts, you can choose from an incredible array of majors and minors. You'll have access to around 50 majors and minors from humanities, social sciences, business, health and science, keeping your career options open. Pursue your passion and your profession.

Shape your own future with this interdisciplinary degree. You'll choose one arts major, then explore your interests or build an essential skill when you choose secondary majors, minors and electives from across the university. You'll graduate with your primary major on your academic transcript, so future employers can recognise your expertise.

Create your own path. Want to major in sociology, with a second major in psychology, then take Chinese as an elective? Go for it. Or perhaps you'd like to pair economics and English. Or crime, justice and legal studies with linguistics. Build your own future – we're here to help you achieve your dream. No matter which path you choose, you'll learn from world-class academics and leading researchers.

In your first year, you'll explore your interests and passions. Try a language; or get a taste for history, English, politics or creative writing. In your second and third years, you'll delve deeper while also choosing electives and minors that broaden your skills and knowledge. You may also choose to develop professional skillsets in areas like psychology, public health, marketing, science, sport management and more.

This flexible degree also offers a range of study options. You can choose to study face-to-face at our Melbourne Campus and enjoy our on-campus facilities, or you can study online – knowing your experience will mirror on-campus students, with tutorials delivered in a synchronous manner. Unlike many other online degrees, at La Trobe you can login to live sessions and engage directly with academics and your fellow students in real time.

Gain real-world experience and build valuable connections that will shape your career. Take on an industry placement at organisations like SBS Radio, the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre or the United Nations Association of Australia or travel overseas for an international sustainability experience.* Many of our exchange programs are financially supported. Your dedicated course advisor will help you to find your path and explore new opportunities.


You'll learn:

  • Critical thinking: Delve into complex problems. Experts say critical thinking will be a highly valued skill in the workforce of tomorrow.**
  • Emotional intelligence: Understand what drives our decisions. Learn how to connect to others with emotion and intelligence.
  • Creativity: Learn how to see new possibilities and turn them into reality.
  • Communication: Learn how to connect, communicate and collaborate with your university peers and future colleagues.


Major: Creative and Professional Writing

The Creative and Professional Writing major allows you to hone your writing skills in multiple genres and forms. If you have a passion for telling stories and using language to change the way we see the world, then this major gives you the opportunity to experiment with the short story, extended fiction, creative non-fiction and script-writing. As well as crafting your own pieces, you will learn about the links between creative practice and literary studies and discover how your own writing relates to or challenges literary traditions. You will practice reading as a writer, paying close attention to the strategies other writers use to create mood and meaning.

Over the course of the major, you will develop editing skills in dedicated classes with a focus on current practice in the publishing industry and in peer-feedback workshops. Supported by accomplished and published writers, you will finish your degree with a writing portfolio and valuable writing experience. Through this major you will gain skills highly valued within and beyond the university – to write cogently, to adapt style for different circumstances and audiences, to engage critically with language, and to tell compelling stories.

You might also interested in other programs of this university

Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Health Sc...

 Program Level: 4-Year Bachelor's Degree
 Duration: 48 months
 Tuition Fee: CAD 38,800

 Application Fee: CAD 0 FREE

English Requirement: IELTS PTE 

Work Permit:

Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Science -...

 Program Level: 4-Year Bachelor's Degree
 Duration: 48 months
 Tuition Fee: CAD 41,000

 Application Fee: CAD 0 FREE

English Requirement: IELTS PTE 

Work Permit:

Bachelor of Media and Communication in C...

 Program Level: 3-Year Bachelor's Degree
 Duration: 36 months
 Tuition Fee: CAD 36,800

 Application Fee: CAD 0 FREE

English Requirement: IELTS PTE 

Work Permit: