Overview

Build your confidence to make a difference and benefit from our unique industry partnerships with a 12-month paid work placement as part of your degree. Apply your knowledge and critical thinking into your desired industry and grow your network to mark on the world (and its future) before you graduate.  

Your major

Learn how to harness the power of words to tell compelling stories that inform and inspire the world. In this major, you'll develop an understanding of traditional and latest practice-led methods to hone your writing practice, explore how the online world has given power and voice to stories of diversity, unpack complex social issues to create persuasive writing that drives action and learn the art of crafting stories and scripts that evoke and inspire new ways of thinking about the world.

Your industry experience

Bolster your CV with real industry experience through our guaranteed Work Integrated Learning opportunity – a placement, internship or industry-linked project. In the Skills and Strategies for Social Change core unit, you'll collaborate with students and community, civil society and industry partners to create real campaigns for social change.

Skills you’ll learn

• Conceptual understanding
• Critical and creative reasoning
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Problem-solving
• Self-management

Your career opportunities

• Publisher or editor
• Writer
• Journalist
• Public relations officer
• Novelist or screenwriter
• Copywriter