The Writing Studies minor is a home for students who believe that writing can be an integral part of their personal, professional, and academic success. Writing Studies is a research-based, interdisciplinary field that includes the study of digital media, professional and technical writing, academic, civic, and cultural rhetorics, and the theory and practice of writing pedagogy. 

Creative storytelling and creative writing courses as children, it is through stories we begin to learn how the world works – and that is why we are all so strongly attracted to them. Stories can invite us into an unthinkable reality, they help us learn from the past or even see the future, they offer archetypes of good and evil and can very well play with our imagination as well as logic. A good story can sell everything – not only does this apply to books and movies, but also to everything we do in our professional and personal life. We need a story to design a strong presentation, create an effective post for social media, manage an interview, deliver a business pitch, or write an academic essay.

Learn the Technical Writing Essentials, technical reports, and professional communication with this online course.

A Free Online Proofreading Course On The Best Methods For Finding And Fixing Mistakes.

Learn how to craft accurate, engaging, and impactful pieces of writing for the business context. Professional Communication: Business Writing and Storytelling is an online short course from The Economist designed to help business professionals attract and address broad audiences across various written formats. Based on the newspaper’s editorial practice, this six-week course offers a self-reflective journey through the craft and purpose of writing and storytelling, equipping you with the confidence to communicate with partners and employees. An accessible “tools not rules” approach to grammar unlocks practical skills for constructing cohesive sentences and paragraphs and shows how elements such as word choice, punctuation, and structure can maximize impact and clarity. You’ll also explore ways to source information accurately, learn to strengthen arguments with data visualisations and uncover methods for constructive and collaborative editing.

Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary field that investigates the forms of social life and culture produced in today’s interconnected world. Understanding the complexity of global culture requires mastery over the tools of interpretation and knowledge production. It requires students to “read, write, and translate the world.” Global Cultural Studies courses combine the strengths of the social sciences, the humanities, and creative practice, by drawing on interpretive methods and theories from literary and translation studies, cultural anthropology, history, sociology, media studies, film studies, journalism, communications, economics, and more.

Composition 10 is designed to support students in their development of written communication through a critical process of questioning, exploring, and sampling. Within a supportive community of writers, students will work individually and collaboratively to explore and create coherent, purposeful compositions. The course builds students’ writing competencies by introducing them to varied structures, forms, and styles of compositions.

Composition 11 course focuses on the basic elements of the academic essay: thesis statement, topic sentences, paragraph structure, and basic grammar and style. Gaining an understanding of these elements, practicing using them, and getting feedback, leads to produce better essays. The process of planning, preparing, and writing an academic essay helps students engage with a topic, think critically about it, find their own perspective and opinion on it, and present that perspective to readers in a clear, logical way.

The College Writing Program seeks to equip students for academic success and postgraduate careers that require knowledge of advanced communication and writing skills. We provide instruction in composition theory and practice and in rhetoric across diverse traditions. Our courses teach students about the forms of writing they are likely to encounter, provide opportunities for students to rethink and refine their writing processes and habits, and teach students strategies or techniques for adapting their writing styles to specific audiences, disciplines, and genres. Our courses also span a range of genres in composition and rhetoric, including cultural rhetorics, visual rhetorics, creative nonfiction, civic writing, and journalism. Through our interdisciplinary curriculum, our courses ask students to examine writing and rhetoric as embedded in culture and to consider the relations among writing, rhetoric, identity, literacy, and power. Our program is committed to enacting the college's mission through our curricular focus on diversity and equity.

This workshop is a takeoff track for people who want to improve their writing, either because their work requires it, because of their studies (administrative, translators, university, opposition...) or because they want to start literary creation.

The Humanities Korea (HK) Research Center of the Institute of Buddhist Culture at Geumgang University held a Sans Crit Lecture in Gyeryong City, Chungcheongnam-do to expand communication with citizens and the foundation of humanities. In the beginner's class, he lectured on Sanskrit grammar, and in the intermediate class, he read Chapter 4 of Hatha Yoga Pradipika. In this civic lecture, 12 people from Chungnam, Jeonbuk, and metropolitan areas, including the general public, doctors, and professors, participated, and 9 of them completed the 8-week course.

Have you been writing poetry for some time? An opportunity to discuss work and examine progress in a workshop environment, led by a contemporary poet. Poems will be read and discussed in class.

This minor will provide students the knowledge of four genres: poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama. They will acquire skills in writing, revising, and critiquing their own work and the work of others. The course listings below are a representation of what this minor requires. Select elective courses may also be included. Students may have to take additional courses to fulfill the prerequisites of the required courses.

The Postgraduate Preparation Programme (PPP) is a one trimester, non-award programme for students who have a tertiary qualification but who do not qualify for direct entry into a Master Degree at Curtin University. Completion of the PPP ensures students direct entry into the Curtin College Graduate Certificate programme. The PPP consist of 4 pre-postgraduate units that focus on academic communication, intercultural issues and introductory research skills in preparation for postgraduate studies.

This is a course for anyone interested in developing their writing and turning it into a performance.