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Writing Self, Writing Place (11118.1)

Level: Intermediate Unit Level
Credit Points: 3
HECS Bands: 1
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Design
Discipline: School of Arts and Communications


Unit Outlines


  • Semester 1, 2019, ON-CAMPUS, BRUCE (190524) - View



Where does the concept of place meet ways of being in the world? How do we write about land, the environment, the city? How can the Australian Indigenous term - Country - contribute to ways of understanding story and self? This unit introduces students to different understandings and expressions of story in the context of lived experience, culture and place. Through the studies of various texts, students will be exposed to how other writers and artists have conceptualised and represented these intertwined ideas. Students will use these studies not only as a way of broadening their knowledge, but as a way of developing their own preferred writing practice.

Learning Outcomes


1. Identify and critique different concepts of writing about place and self and how they manifest as literary genres;

2. Develop written work that creatively engages with country, place and self; and

3. Critically reflect on representations of lived experience, environment, place and self.

Assessment Items

Contact Hours

Three hours consisting of an on-campus lecture and tutorial per week.


11114 Writing, Rewriting.


11116 Screenwriting.

Assumed Knowledge


Incompatible Units

9174 Literary Studies: Reading the City.

Equivalent Units


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