Bachelor of Arts - Creative Writing

Summary

With the AUT Bachelor of Arts you can choose from majors in areas as diverse as languages, international studies, criminology, psychology, event management and education. Build a degree that fits your passions and interests with the Bachelor of Arts. Get an in depth understanding of the wider world and your role in it, and learn how you can make a positive difference.

Are you dreaming up a novel, a screenplay, short stories, poems, the lyrics to an album, or a graphic novel? With the Creative Writing major you develop your creative writing skills for the page, screen and spaces in-between.

Explore style and genre, media, and the demands of readers, editors and publishers. You develop your skills as a writer, testing your creative ideas in an environment that challenges, critiques and supports you as you go.
Key features:

• Only major of its kind in New Zealand
• You’ll be mentored by a published author
• Workplace experience in your final semester
• Option to include subjects from across AUT in your degree

Career opportunities:

• Social media management
• Web content management
• Dramaturgy
• Fiction writing
• Journalism
• Media writing
• Performance arts
• Screenwriting
• Travel writing
• Gaming narrative designer
• Virtual and augmented reality content producers