uow creative arts undergraduate booklet

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UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG

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WelcomeIf you are creative, ambitious, and keen to make your mark, it makes a lot of sense to study Creative Arts at the University of Wollongong. It’s your entry into one of the fastest growing employment sectors in Australia—and the world. Creative industries is where our graduates work, and where they play as well. Like you, when they came here they were passionate about their chosen artform, they wanted to develop new skills and they were looking for new ideas and inspirations.

These are the immediate things we offer you: the chance to strengthen your practical skills, to immerse yourself in a dynamic creative environment, to think critically about the arts, about history, about contemporary life. Our students produce diverse, ambitious and exciting works, in everything from traditional art forms to innovative new media. You’ll spend much of your time in studios, labs and theatres, practising your artform and finding new ways of tackling creative challenges.

And then we offer a whole lot more, as our graduates have found out.

PRofeSSoR AmAndA LAwSon Dean, Faculty oF creative arts

Professor Amanda Lawson has more than 25 years’ experience in the arts in Australia and during that time has been the director of several organisations, including the Crafts Council of NSW and Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, where she was also manager of Cultural Services and established the Hill End Artists in Residence Program.

She has worked at the Australia Council, with NSW State and Regional Development, the Australian Research Council and as an independent arts consultant. She has expertise in arts marketing, audience development and collections and cultural project management.

Professor Lawson gained a BA from the University of Edinburgh and an Honours degree from the University of Wollongong before completing a PhD in Australian Literature at the University of Sydney in 2002. At UOW she is director of the University Art Collection and teaches in the areas of curatorial and professional practice.

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creative arts offers you a dynamic and progressive education that connects hands-on studio production with critical reflection. this strong practice-based training undertaken in conjunction with a distinctive theoretical component is an excellent preparation for a life in the contemporary arts or creative industries. UOW embraces all aspects of the creative arts, from the visual arts and graphic design to media arts and socially engaged practice; from acting and performance, to stage-management, sound, lighting and audiovisual design, from creative writers, to documentary makers and journalists.

Whether you major in painting and drawing, work with high-end digital technologies, tell stories on the page, or on the stage, through video, radio or new forms of convergent media, explore lighting and sound, or create objects using organic or synthesized materials, you will learn that there is so much more to a life in the creative arts.

Learning is through thinking, doing and making: through practice and practical assessment as well as through theory and history, supported by staff who are professionals within their fields. From your first to your final year, you’ll be encouraged to hone your perceptions, and develop a range of practical, creative and critical skills, towards your future life as an artist, journalist, teacher, curator, producer, or cultural policy maker.

You will benefit from being part of a multi-disciplinary unit recognised for its excellence and innovation, using electives and minors to build interdisciplinary expertise. A degree in technical theatre for instance, might be supported by a minor in media arts or creative writing, while someone undertaking a degree in visual arts and graphic design might want to pick up electives in digital media and professional writing. Increasingly, there are opportunities for you to engage with professional and cross-disciplinary experiences within your degree.


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Creative Arts teaches most of its programs from Building 25 on the UOW main campus. The building combines lecture-style teaching spaces with specialist facilities designed for each creative discipline: computer labs for design, theatres for performance, studios for visual arts, and recording and editing suites for journalism.

The building incorporates gallery spaces for student work and several performance venues for theatre and writing students.

§ Creative Arts Gallery § Long Gallery § Drawing Studio § Sculpture Studio § Textiles/Printmaking Studio § Photography Lab § Design Lab § Computer Labs § Digital Media Lab § Journalism Labs § Radio Studio § Editing Suite § Performance Space § Black Box § Rehearsal Spaces

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Backstage Hope is a three-storey creative arts teaching and research centre transformed from a disused backstage space attached to the University’s Hope Theatre (named after UOW’s first Chancellor, the Hon. Robert Hope).

The facility includes professionally equipped rehearsal spaces and equipment for theatre productions including a walk-on lighting mezzanine and control room which allows students to learn professional lighting, sound and video techniques. Backstage Hope also boasts dedicated study rooms, visual arts studios and an exhibition space for postgraduate students.

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The Digital Media Centre (DMC) is located on the Innovation Campus (iC) in North Wollongong. It offers state of the art teaching and technical facilities to support a professional learning experience in Digital Film Making, Digital Photography, Film and TV Studio Practice, Editing, Animation and Media Arts. The following studio and exhibition facilities are used for industry-ready technical training, and as spaces to support creative installations and projects:

§ Two-storey TV studio with a range of specialist, industry-standard equipment

§ Animation studio with acoustic panelling, green screen and lighting grids

§ 2 ‘Black Box’ studios with acoustic panelling and lighting grids

§ 5 computer labs including an animation and editing lab, and a dedicated editing suite

§ 116-seat lecture theatre with widescreen cinema projection and 12.1 surround sound system

§ DMC Gallery space for exhibiting your work

Students at the DMC have access to an array of both professional and high-end consumer equipment including Digital SLRs, laptops, audio gear (mikes, booms and recorders), studio lights, projectors and more.


MaKING ITin the creative arts it’s not just what’s in your head, or even in the classroom—it’s what you can bring into the world. uoW creative arts’ graduates are bringing their art to life in the studio, the museum and out in the community.

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Dara Gill is a young artist whose work regularly crosses lines between art, research and performance. He restlessly explores new media to make his art—sculpture, photography, film, theatre and painting.

He works out of his Redfern studio, an old converted shopfront. He does freelance design work to, as he says, “pay the rent”, and is participating in more and more art shows, many of which call for new work.

Dara is seeing a shift in focus from collaborative to solo work. “Collaboration was initially a part of my practice, but as time goes on, I’m becoming more sure of myself and my instincts.”

Despite this shift, he still finds time to work with other artists. Since 2007, he has been a part of Team MESS, a group of artists and performers who develop and perform experimental theatre.

Their latest work, BINGO Unit, is a combination of live theatre, TV production and improvisation that will shoot around the streets of Melbourne during the Next Wave festival.

It’s typical of the group, in that it challenges the audience to rethink ideas about theatre and media.

The group started when Dara and the other members were all students at UOW.

“At UOW I was mixing with performance kids a lot at the time. Between semesters, we’d put on shows. When you start out at uni, being able to bounce ideas off people is important.”

“UOW supported us a lot and the lecturers gave us feedback. One of the great things about the uni was that there was no necessary notion about what the degree was supposed to do.”

“I could manipulate the degree to suit my own goals,” he explains. “My teachers were very open to me running away with a project and taking it somewhere they didn’t expect.”

“This was good. Uni is a time when you learn where you’re headed as an artist.”

DARA GILLBca (VISUaL aRTS & GRaphIc dESIGN)aRTIST (aRT, RESEaRch, pERFORMaNcE)


Rebecca Evans loves vintage clothing and fashion. Hailing from a family of dressmakers, her appreciation for yesterday’s fashion is absolute. She studies it, wears it, makes it from original patterns and, as an Assistant Curator at Sydney’s Powerhouse Museum, works with it.

“When people ask me what a curator does I liken it to a keeper in a zoo,” she says. “I Iook after the animals, show them, make sure they’re as close to perfect as possible.”

She is, in fact, helping care for one of Australia’s most important collections of historical clothing. The importance of this role isn’t obvious, and it even took Rebecca by surprise.

“When I first started, I thought: what am I doing looking after all of this amazing stuff? Then the stories unraveled,” she says. “They stopped being things and started being people. Objects are powerful storytellers.”

Rebecca recalls one item from the family of Samuel Marsden, an influential clergyman and judge and prominent figure in Australian colonial history.

“It was a small nightdress that belonged to his son—and it was the clothing he died in. Normally it wouldn’t be kept, but because of the exceptional circumstances, it was.”

Seeing the power of these personal stories is part of what Rebecca loves about curatorship. She also appreciates what we have to learn from the past.

While she was still a student at UOW, Rebecca volunteered at Tongarra museum, a very small museum of local history supported by Shellharbour City Council. She worked there for two years—in the second year on a Movable Heritage Fellowship from the Powerhouse. She credits the experience as an important foundation for her career.

“You cannot go from two more extremes in terms of resources,” she says, comparing Tongarra to her current work. “It doesn’t matter where you work. Especially when you’re learning, you should reach out. Don’t write something off because you think it’s small or unglamorous. In a small museum, you’ll learn more than you expect and have freedom you wouldn’t get elsewhere.”

REBECCA EVANSBca/Ba (VISUaL aRTS/hISTORY)aSSISTaNT cURaTOR, pOWERhOUSE MUSEUM SYdNEY

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“I’ve always wanted to be a journalist, as cheesy as it may sound.” UOW graduate Kate McIlwain confides. “I remember reading the Good Weekend or the Sydney Morning Herald as a child lying on the floor at my parent’s house and realising that being able to tell a story and change people’s views or educate them on an issue is a pretty powerful thing.”

Kate has come a long way since sitting on her parent’s floor. She studied the Bachelor of Creative Arts and Bachelor of Communication and Media Studies at UOW and is now a reporter at the Illawarra Mercury Newspaper.

For Kate, the practical aspects of the degrees helped her work out what she was interested in. “The graphic design and journalism combination of my undergraduate degrees taught me to research, write well, communicate clearly through words and pictures and gave me a broad grounding in politics, history and sociology.”

Since graduating Kate has worked on a lot of interesting stories. “The really satisfying stories that I’ve written have been ones where I’ve been able to help people,” she says.

A set of stories Kate worked on grew out of the federal government’s aged care reforms.

“A report came out about how people who have dementia are cared for in Australia—it showed that the system failed them, it wasn’t working. So, I spoke to some people living with early onset dementia and their carers. Being able to share their stories and contribute to that issue was really rewarding.”

When Kate started at the Mercury in 2011 she wrote for the paper’s features section where she covered entertainment, lifestyle, fashion, arts and human interest issues.

However, she knew her passion was in news and soon made the transition.

“I wanted to be able to make some sort of contribution through journalism and I thought that being a news journalist was the way to do that.”

“You need to be able to listen and you need to be interested in what is going on in the world around you—the big things and the really little things—sometimes that is where the best stories come from. You need to have an understanding of what people want to read about.”

“In journalism, part of its appeal is that there’s never a typical day. The news is based on what is happening in the world and that changes every day.”

“Journalism is a changing industry at the moment. It’s completely unpredictable: print journalism is fighting for its life. But I love writing and I love telling stories. I don’t know where I’ll be in the future but that’s what’s exciting about it.”

“As long as I’m writing, meeting people every day, talking to them and telling their stories, I’ll be happy.”

KAtE MCILwAINBcMS/Bca (jOURNaLISM/GRaphIc dESIGN & NEW MEdIa)MaSTERS IN jOURNaLISMjOURNaLIST, ILLaWaRRa MERcURY


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The Bachelor of Creative Arts (BCA) focuses on creative practice – majoring in one discipline, and is supported by relevant history and theory subjects. You complete a major study in the discipline of your choice:

§ Creative Writing § Graphic Design § Theatre § Visual Arts § Visual Arts and Design

The opportunity to support your major area of specialisation through a minor study in a complementary area, or to challenge yourself by taking subjects that offer you new experiences beyond your major study are also available through electives and Open Studio subjects.

BAcHeLoR of cReAtIVe ARtS (deAn’S ScHoLAR)

The Dean’s Scholar Program is designed for high-achieving students. Dean’s Scholars complete the Bachelor of Creative Arts with a number of added benefits:

§ Access to an academic mentor You will be paired with an academic mentor and given the opportunity to draw on their experience, insight and guidance to overcome academic challenges.

§ textbook/materials allowance You will be given an annual allowance to assist paying for textbooks and other learning resources.

§ extended library access Expanded library borrowing privileges will put you in the same category as research students—giving you access to additional resources you need for special projects.

§ Access to the creative Arts’ postgraduate lab § opportunity for internships, self-directed study and

special projects The Dean’s Scholar program is highly adaptable to your interests and strengths. You are able to build a course of study around your major, in consultation with your mentor.

The program has a limited intake and you’ll need a minimum ATAR of 90. You may be asked to attend an interview on-campus and are encouraged to apply for an undergraduate scholarship www.uow.edu.au/about/scholarships

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The Bachelor of Digital Media (BDM) degree is taught jointly by UOW and TAFE Illawarra and focuses on creative media production practice. Subjects in the BDM are taught both at UOW’s main campus and the Innovation Campus in North Wollongong.

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The Bachelor of Journalism (BJour) provides training in journalism and other forms of specialist communication. It has a strong vocational focus, with an emphasis on practical learning and work placement opportunities.

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The Bachelor of Performance (BPerf) is an intensive practice-based degree that develops your skills as a highly proficient performing artist. You can choose from two majors:

§ Acting & Performance Making § Technical Theatre

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Double degree programs allow you to combine a Creative Arts degree with a full qualification in another area. This can help prepare you for a specialist career in the arts, or allow you to pursue different passions. We offer the following double degree programs:

§ Bachelor of Creative Arts – Bachelor of Arts § Bachelor of Creative Arts – Bachelor of Commerce § Bachelor of Creative Arts – Bachelor of Communication and

Media Studies § Bachelor of Creative Arts – Bachelor of Computer Science § Bachelor of Creative Arts – Bachelor of International Studies § Bachelor of Creative Arts – Bachelor of Journalism § Bachelor of Creative Arts – Bachelor of Laws § Bachelor of Creative Arts – Bachelor of Science § Bachelor of Journalism – Bachelor of Arts § Bachelor of Journalism – Bachelor of Commerce § Bachelor of Journalism – Bachelor of Communication and

Media Studies § Bachelor of Journalism – Bachelor of Engineering § Bachelor of Journalism – Bachelor of International Studies § Bachelor of Journalism – Bachelor of Laws § Bachelor of Journalism – Bachelor of Science

If you’re interested in a double degree, you can request more information by contacting UniAdvice at [email protected]

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Single degrees: 3 years full-time study or part-time equivalent.

double degrees: 4.5 – 5.5 years full-time study or part-time equivalent.


hoW to Apply And entRy ReQuIRementSBcA, Bdm & BJoUR

Applicants are selected on the basis of their ATAR (or equivalent), although outstanding results in relevant subjects may be taken into account.


As well as applying through UAC, Bachelor of Performance Acting and Performance-Making applicants must attend an on-campus audition, while Technical Theatre applicants are required to attend an interview. These face-to-face meetings will give applicants the opportunity to demonstrate their talents and potential to benefit from the course.

Bachelor of Performance applicants must submit a Registration Form, by the due date, available at www.uow.edu.au/crearts

To apply for the BCA, BDM, BJour or BPerf degree you need to have that degree listed as a preference with the University Admission Centre (UAC). More information on this process can be found on the UAC website at www.uac.edu.au

UOW also has special entry options for current Year 12 students. These include Selective Entry, Alternative Entry and Regional Bonus Points and Points to UOW plans. For more information contact UniAdvice at [email protected]

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flexIble StudyCreativity isn’t just limited to artists. Developing a creative skill can enhance your pursuit of careers in many different industries, and not always in the ways you expect. Performance subjects give you confidence in front of an audience. A class in short story writing will teach you valuable techniques for expressing yourself clearly and concisely. Our subjects give you the edge to find extraordinary solutions to common problems, both within the workplace and in your everyday life.

There’s no reason why you can’t combine our subjects with other areas of study—in fact, sometimes that’s exactly what you want to do! By taking Open Studio subjects in Creative Arts, either as elective subjects or to form a Creative Arts minor study, you can learn new skills without giving up on your other interests.

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Many of our subjects are available to students from any degree in the University—you don’t have to worry about having a specific ATAR, or proving you have previous experience in the field. These Open Studio subjects are designed to deliver creative skills and specialist cultural knowledge to artists and non-artists alike. Students from anywhere in the University can enrol in Open Studio subjects if they meet the necessary subject prerequisites.

Writing a novel? Learn the basics in our Introduction to Creative Writing, then come and workshop your writing in one of our Narrative Studio subjects, and learn the tricks of the trade.

Interested in the theatre, but don’t want to do a degree in Performance? Develop your vocal presence or learn to build schedules and organise events working alongside theatre students, while learning how theatre productions are put together from the ground up.

Pick up typographic skills in Graphic Design Studios. Learn film editing techniques through an Open Studio subject in Journalism. Learn to design a soundscape for your film, theatre production or installation, or how to turn your video footage into an experiential audiovisual environment. Benefit from the experience of award-winning photographers, poets, documentary-makers and designers, and learn new skills to enhance your work in other areas.

Whether you are curious about pursuing further formalised studies in Creative Arts, or simply want to learn some exciting new skills, Open Studio subjects can give you a taste of what Creative Arts has to offer.

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It’s rare to only be interested in one art form, even if you’re already working in Creative Arts. As your degree progresses, you may find you want to develop practical skills in a different discipline. All of our degree programs require you to complete elective subjects, which can be chosen from Open Studio subjects and electives within Creative Arts as well as subjects offered by other faculties.

Undertaking Open Studio subjects outside your major study area can enhance your creative practice, and provide opportunities for collaboration on interdisciplinary projects. An oil painting studio and a poetry workshop are very different, but through Open Studio subjects, you can work within a new discipline and gain an insight into the variety of artistic approaches that Creative Arts has to offer.

A Creative Arts degree doesn’t prevent you from gaining experience in other areas, and electives from other faculties can allow you to pursue specialist paths within your artistic field. A journalist might enhance their knowledge by taking an elective in Law, History or International Studies. Graphic designers might choose to expand their skill set by studying Media and Communications or Marketing. Theatre students might want to write a play or design the sound for their next production. All of our creative disciplines function within a wider cultural context, so there’s no reason why you shouldn’t complement your creative work with other areas of interest in say Philosophy or Languages.

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If a particular creative discipline is of interest to you, you can take a prescribed course of study and qualify for a minor study in that area.

A minor study in any discipline in Creative Arts provides sustained training in a creative field. Although not as comprehensive as a major study, a minor can help you develop skills in a particular area. Minor studies in Creative Arts include:

§ Art History § Creative Writing § Design § Design History § Media Arts § Performance § Technical Theatre § Visual Arts

These minor studies are open to all undergraduate students at UOW, and if you declare your minor before applying to graduate, it will be recorded on your academic transcript. Whether you’re enhancing your Creative Arts degree with a second specialisation, or gaining a minor to accompany a different degree, a minor can provide valuable and exciting opportunities to learn new creative skills.


BAcHeLoR of cReAtIVe ARtS (cReAtIVe wRItInG)

ATAR 75/90 (dean’s Scholar)

DURATION 3 years

STARTS autumn (February)

ENTRY admission to the Bachelor of creative arts is based on the hSc aTaR (or equivalent), although outstanding results in relevant subjects/areas may also be taken into account.

LOCATION Wollongong

UAC 754601/754610 (dean’s Scholar)

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Writing is the art of clear and persuasive expression. Good writing makes your meaning clear and allows you to communicate with your readers, but the best writing can also redefine how people see themselves and the world around them. It’s more than just putting words on a page. It’s thinking about those words: what they mean, why you chose them and what effect they will have on your reader.

From short stories to song lyrics to the words spoken by your favourite TV character, writing has a powerful effect. A novelist and a computer games writer produce vastly different end products. What they have in common is their ability to use language to shape the way people think.

wHAt YoU StUdYA Bachelor of Creative Arts in Creative Writing encourages you to look beyond the individual forms of creative writing, and to analyse the effects of writing. Our degree isn’t just about defining what writing is—it’s about discovering what writing can do.

Our literary theory subjects help position your creative practice within a wider historical and cultural context. Practical subjects offer opportunities to workshop your writing with other students under the guidance of emerging and established writers. Lectures and seminars will allow you to explore the intersections between theory and practice, and workshops and writing exercises encourage you to develop, draft and refine your own creative work with the input of your peers.

You will also be encouraged to facilitate public performance and publication of your works, both within your Creative Writing subjects and for your own creative development. Creative Writing students oversee the publication of UOW’s annual literary anthology, TIDE, which allows you to gain valuable insights into editorial and publishing practice as well as providing an opportunity for publication. Many of our students also successfully submit work to national and international literary journals during the course of their degree.

This degree focuses on three key areas of creative writing practice: poetic, dramatic and narrative writing forms. But there are also opportunities to combine these areas of practice, and to explore the intersections between writing and the other creative arts. Working within Creative Arts at UOW, you have the chance to undertake electives or studio subjects in other disciplines, work with people with different knowledge and skills, and create new and innovative work that borrows from many different forms of artistic practice.


cAReeRSA degree in Creative Writing can lead to a variety of career paths, such as:

§ Novelist § Biographer § Media Writer § Publisher § Editor § Copy Writer § Teacher § Employment in publishing, sales, literary management, literary organisations in the

government or non-government sectors.

All forms of communication rely on clear and persuasive expression. Some of our graduates have become well-known poets, novelists, playwrights, editors and bloggers. But any job that requires efficient communication can be improved by the kinds of skills you learn in a Creative Writing degree. Many graduates use their writing skills within professional careers in other areas including arts administration, and government and community arts organisations.

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WHo We are

PRofESSoR CAthERINE CoLE deputy deAn of cReAtIVe ARtS

Catherine is a writer and has published novels, short stories and non-fiction and has edited a number of anthologies in Australia, the UK and USA. She has extensive academic, writing and industry connections in the fields of creative practice and literature.

DR MERLINDA BoBIS SenIoR lectuReR

Merlinda is a Filipino-Australian multi award-winning writer who has published in three languages. She is the author of three novels, five poetry books, seven dramatic works (stage and radio), a collection of short stories, a monograph on writing and researching fiction, and more than ninety poems, stories, and scholarly articles in literary anthologies, journals, and magazines.

DR ShADy CoSGRoVE SenIoR lectuReR

Shady is currently writing a novel entitled “The Necessary Tango”, set in Argentina, which explores themes of hope, survival and forgiveness. Her creative non-fiction manuscript, She Played Elvis —about family, pilgrimage and nationhood—was shortlisted for the 2007 Australian/Vogel Literary Prize and was published by Allen and Unwin in 2009. Her short fiction has been published in Southerly, Antipodes, Hecate and Best Australian Short Stories 2006.

DR JoShuA LoBB lectuReR

Joshua is a writer whose creative work focuses on performance writing and prose. He previously worked for three years as writer and dramaturg for the Australian Museums Theatre Education program.

MR ALAN wEARNE SenIoR lectuReR

Alan is a poet who has been part of the Australian poetry scene since 1968 and is the author of three verse collections, a verse novella, two verse novels and Kicking in Danger, a satire on Melbourne’s football. He is currently the publisher of Grand Parade Poets.


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ATAR 75

DURATION 3 years


ENTRY admission to the Bachelor of journalism is based on the hSc aTaR (or equivalent), although outstanding results in relevant subjects/areas may also be taken into account.

LOCATION Wollongong

UAC 754700

CRICOS 058983K

Journalism provides public information. A journalist writes and reports so that readers and viewers can stay informed, and carries the responsibility to report accurately and fairly on the public actions of individuals, business entities and governments.

Journalism provides both an account of action, and a forum for community response and participation. It’s not just about creating the news, but also for presenting public response and feedback and ensuring that powerful groups are held accountable for what they do.

wHAt YoU StUdYThe Bachelor of Journalism gives you the training to become a journalist and communication specialist, through video, audio, print and web based technologies. You will present news stories across a variety of media, and learn essential industry skills to accompany your practice.

Studio subjects allow you to gain experience working in the Creative Arts’ student newsroom and radio studio. You will also have the chance to contribute to UOWTV, the weekly web magazine ‘The Current’, and the student publication ‘Paper Rock’. Practical exercises, both within Journalism subjects and in wider industry placements, will form part of a portfolio of work that will be submitted for assessment.

Our staff have extensive experience as professional journalists, and their guidance will help you develop your technical skills and your understanding of the industry as a whole. The Bachelor of Journalism also provides opportunities to gain experience at respected media organisations, including a four-week internship during the final year of the degree.


cAReeRSThe Bachelor of Journalism can lead to a variety of careers, such as:

§ Copywriter § Editor § Features Writer § Freelance Writer § Newspaper Journalist § Online Journalist § Photojournalist § Radio Journalist § TV News Presenter

The Bachelor of Journalism gives you the practical and analytic skills to pursue a career as a journalist in a wide variety of fields and across a broad spectrum of media, including print, radio, television and the internet. Combining this degree with another discipline, through elective subjects or a double degree, can enhance your employability in specialist fields. Science writing, political profiling, media analysis and financial journalism require journalistic skills in addition to knowledge in other areas.

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WHo We are

MR ShAwN BuRNS lectuReR

Shawn has extensive experience as a regional daily and non-daily newspaper journalist, photographer, sub-editor and editor. He has worked as journalist and Chief of Staff with WIN Television and held positions including WIN Television NSW State News Director and Federal political media and policy adviser. His interests include representation of people with disability in the media.

DR ERIC Loo SenIoR lectuReR

Eric has worked as a financial journalist, features editor, production editor, and media educator in Australia, the Philippines, Malaysia and the United States. He is founding editor of the refereed journal Asia Pacific Media Educator, and has co-edited books in international journalism and cross-cultural communication.

DR SIoBhAN MChuGh SenIoR lectuReR

Siobhan is an award-winning writer and broadcaster, whose publications include six books, three book chapters, over 60 radio documentaries, scripted international television documentary, and written numerous newspaper and magazine features. She is a noted oral historian, her collections being held in the National Library of Australia and the State Library of New South Wales.

MR MARCuS o’DoNNELL lectuReR

Marcus has worked as a journalist and editor for more than fifteen years and has written widely about art and architecture, gay/lesbian issues, religion, classical music and film. He was the editor-in-chief of SSO Media, the publishers of Sydney Star Observer, and is interested in the links between journalism and popular culture; blogging, hypertext and online media; and alternative and community media.

PRofESSoR StEPhEN tANNER pRofeSSoR

Stephen has worked as a journalist, political adviser and academic. He has written on a range of topics, including educational practice, politics, corruption, journalism ethics and investigative journalism. His major publications include the co-authored text Feature Writing: Telling the Story (Oxford University Press in 2009); the co-authored text Journalism Ethics at Work (Pearson in 2005), and the edited text Journalism: Investigation and Research (Pearson, 2005).


BAcHeLoR of cReAtIVe ARtS (GRAPHIc deSIGn)


DURATION 3 years



LOCATION Wollongong


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Graphic design uses visual design to communicate specific information. From posters to company logos to individual websites, graphic design has a specific goal, and uses visual images to reach that goal—to make a picture, sign or advertisement worth a thousand words.

With connections to both artistic and commercial applications, graphic design is goal- and information-oriented, using specific tools to convey a message. And, when the traditional tools are no longer adequate, graphic designers adopt and exploit old technologies and invent new ones. Graphic design is always changing, staying current and reshaping itself around technological developments.

wHAt YoU StUdYA Bachelor of Creative Arts in Graphic Design allows you to apply contemporary design techniques across a number of conceptual and industrial applications, and offers specialist studies in a variety of areas, including illustration, typography, web design and branding.

Our practical studio subjects allow you to create design works that enhance your professional portfolio, and also provide ongoing opportunities to learn new technical skills to develop and enhance your practice. These studio subjects run alongside visual and design theory subjects that demonstrate the historical and commercial contexts that shape your work.

Our Graphic Design staff members are experienced industry professionals. They provide you with valuable technical support and training in cutting edge digital technologies, and also encourage you to pursue industry experience to further develop your skills. Access to state-of-the-art facilities and professional support will help you create innovative design works, responding to real-world marketing and communication challenges.

The course culminates in a major design project, which is exhibited alongside other students’ work in the Art and Design Graduate Show. This public exhibition showcases the practical skills that you will develop during the degree, and also provides an opportunity to demonstrate organisational, curatorial and production skills.

cAReeRSGraphic designers can pursue a variety of career paths, including:

§ Art Director § Brand/Logo Designer § Typesetter § Publication Designer § Web Designer § Production Artist § Graphic Designer § Animator/Cartoonist § Production Artist/Coordinator/Director

Graphic design is highly visible—as a graphic designer, you could provide visual content for a wide variety of clients, from retail chains to pharmaceuticals companies, film studios to government departments. Commercial opportunities in graphic design are numerous, and may reach a global audience of thousands or millions of people. But the technical and analytical skills developed in a Graphic Design degree are still applicable closer to home, in any career that requires communication with visual images in both physical and digital media.

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WHo We are

MR GREGoR CuLLEN lectuReR

Gregor is a designer whose posters and prints are represented in major galleries including the National Gallery of Australia. Gregor was co-founder of the internationally acclaimed Wollongong design studio, Redback Graphics, and his graphic design solutions for the Roads and Traffic Authority can be seen on road and pedestrian bridges throughout the Illawarra and Southern Highlands.

MR GRANt ELLMERS lectuReR

Grant is a designer and has established a design consultancy that specialises in visualising academic research and in developing visual representations of research concepts and outcomes for university academics. The results have been employed in publications, funding applications, for publicity purposes, and commercial applications.

MS Jo StIRLING lectuReR

Jo has 20 years’ industry experience across platforms in advertising, branding and identity development, publishing and publication design, music industry, eco tourism, environmental and social design. Her interests include sustainable design practice and the designer as activist.

DR JoN CoCKBuRN

lectuReR

Jon is a lecturer in design theory with a strong interest in design and visual arts history and theory. He has a strong commitment to investigating issues concerning new media theory, film, animation and sequential art and contemporary fashion.


BAcHeLoR of cReAtIVe ARtS (VISUAL ARtS)


DURATION 3 years



LOCATION Wollongong


CRICOS 001709K

Visual arts is based around the creation of physical aesthetic artefacts: in two-dimensional media such as painting and film, three-dimensional forms like textiles and sculpture, and, increasingly, in virtual spaces with digital image making and design. Traditional forms are now being used and adapted within innovative multimedia works. New works interrogate our commonly-held assumptions about aestheticism and artistic worth and blur the boundaries that have defined artistic practice: between individual creation and collaboration, between physical and virtual, between longevity and impermanence.

Contemporary visual arts practice relies upon traditional forms and media, but is not bound by them. Seeing the points where different forms intersect allows you to be experimental and innovative, and to scrutinise the relationship between artistic technique and the audience’s aesthetic response.

wHAt YoU StUdYA Bachelor of Creative Arts in Visual Arts will help you learn the practical skills to work as an independent arts practitioner, while developing an understanding of art history and contemporary modes of community-based artistic collaboration. Your works don’t exist in a vacuum: understanding the influences on the creation and exhibition of artworks gives depth and purpose to your own practice.

Visual Arts studio subjects give you the opportunity to learn and practice artistic processes, focusing on textiles, painting and sculpture and with supplementary studies in drawing, printmaking, photography, video, digital image making, installation and curating. Alongside your studio work, you will also take subjects in visual art theory, tracing the development of contemporary visual arts practice and positioning your work within a wider artistic context.

Creative Arts has a number of gallery spaces, and student work is exhibited throughout the year along with changing exhibitions from staff, external artists and from UOW’s permanent Art Collection. Organising and curating these exhibitions gives you the chance to develop skills in arts administration and curatorship, and to display your creative work for a wider audience. At the completion of your degree, you will exhibit along with your peers in the Art and Design Graduate Show, one of the major annual public exhibition events within Creative Arts.

In your degree, you will be taught practical and theoretical skills by practising artists and experienced visual arts scholars from a wide variety of fields. You may also choose to combine your visual arts practice with subjects from other artistic disciplines, within Creative Arts, or to collaborate with other students to develop innovative cross-disciplinary works.


cAReeRSOur graduates possess the knowledge and skills to pursue a variety of career paths, including:

§ Art Historian / Theoretician § Art Journalist § Artist § Arts Writer § Museum Worker § Photographer § Printmaker § Illustrator

§ Textile Designer § Curator § Exhibition Coordinator § Gallery Director § Arts Administrator § Community Arts Worker § Teaching

The Bachelor of Creative Arts in Visual Arts helps you develop your artistic practice to a professional standard. You may choose to pursue a career as a professional artist—however, the analytical and visual skills developed in this degree can also help you respond to aesthetic challenges in a variety of non-artistic careers.

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MS AGNIESzKA GoLDA lectuReR

Agnieszka is a textiles lecturer and visual artist. She has been teaching for the past fourteen years, and has lectured across number of areas including constructed textiles, print and dye, textile design, material studies, concept development, painting and installation.

DR PENNy hARRIS SenIoR lectuReR

Penny is a visual artist who is focused on extending bronze casting techniques into areas not conventionally used by metal casters with a particular focus on cast found objects and found material. She often works in collaboration with sound artists in order to explore the relationship between sound and objects and the space they hold.

WHo We are

MR DEREK KRECKLER SenIoR lectuReR

Derek is a visual artist who has taught at a number of universities including Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), University of Sydney, Sydney College of the Arts and the University of NSW, College of Fine Arts. He has received of a number of awards and various residencies and has exhibited extensively and participated in various national and international events.

MS JACKy REDGAtE SenIoR lectuReR

Jacky is a visual artist who began exhibiting her work in the late 1970s and has since exhibited extensively within Australia and internationally. She has most recently been awarded the prestigious William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize.


BAcHeLoR of cReAtIVe ARtS (VISUAL ARtS And deSIGn)


DURATION 3 years



LOCATION Wollongong


CRICOS 001709K

In the creation of aesthetic artefacts, visual art and graphic design are increasingly interconnected. Artists may adapt traditional media for digital display and exhibition, while graphic designers draw upon established aesthetic techniques to position their work within a wider artistic context.

Visual art involves some of the oldest forms of artistic production, such as sculpture and painting. Graphic design is comparatively ‘young’, and has emerged in response to contemporary technological developments. The history and conventions of visual art can lend credibility to graphic design, while design offers new approaches to the traditional challenges of the visual arts.

wHAt YoU StUdYA Bachelor of Creative Arts in Visual Arts and Design combines technical skills from the areas of Visual Art and Graphic Design, while exploring the intersections of the two. You will develop practical skills in both traditional and new media, allowing you to create works that blur the boundaries between established analogue and new digital artworks.

Drawing on a combination of subjects from the Visual Arts and Graphic Design areas, this degree encourages you to explore the connections between analogue and digital art forms. Studio subjects teach you the artistic processes that you’ll need to create art and design projects, while history and theory subjects provide a foundation for understanding the position of your work in relation to contemporary art and design practice.

In the final year of the degree, it’s your choice where you focus: your major project may be in Visual Arts or Graphic Design, but will be shaped by your knowledge of how these two areas interact. A degree in Visual Arts and Design draws on the strengths of both components, but offers additional flexibility for contemporary artistic practice.

You will have access to a wide variety of resources from both disciplines, including UOW’s state-of-the-art Digital Media Centre, located on the Innovation Campus. Experienced staff from Visual Arts and Graphic Design will provide you with the key skills to create works in both traditional and digital media, and you will have the opportunity to collaborate with other students across disciplines.

Studio subjects in design and branding allow you to practice your skills in a professional context, and the final year of the degree involves the creation and exhibition of a major creative work as part of the Art and Design Graduate Show.


cAReeRSVisual Arts and Design graduates apply their compositional and technical skills in a variety of careers, including:

§ Animator/Cartoonist § Arts Administrator § Artist § Brand/Logo Designer § Community Arts Worker § Content/Digital Curator § Curator § Exhibition Coordinator § Gallery Director § Graphic Designer § Illustrator

§ Photographer § Printmaker § Production Artist § Production Artist/Coordinator/

Director § Publication Designer § Teacher § Textile Designer § Typesetter § Web Designer

Visual Arts and Design provides exciting areas of overlap between the practice of visual artists and designers. Tools and techniques from graphic design enhance the work of contemporary artists in both new and traditional media.

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MR GARRy JoNES lectuReR

Garry is a visual artist with extensive experience in Indig-enous affairs having worked as a senior program and policy officer advising governments on Indigenous housing, arts and cultural development matters. His current work address the emergence of contemporary ‘urban’ Aborigi-nal visual arts, examining what impacts this development has had on the emotional health and well-being or Aboriginal artists and communities.

DR Su BALLARD SenIoR lectuReR

Su is a writer and curator whose current research is focused on media art histories and visual culture. She is a director of The ADA Network, New Zealand’s only digital arts network, and has edited a number of publications including The Aotearoa Digital Arts Reader, Junctures: The Journal for Thematic Dialogue, and The Fibreculture Journal.

PRofESSoR IAN MCLEAN pRofeSSoR of ARt hIStoRy

Ian has published extensively on Australian art and particularly Aboriginal art. His books include How Aborigines Invented the Idea of Contemporary Art, White Aborigines Identity Politics in Australian Art. He is also on the advisory boards of Third Text, the international journal of postcolonial art, World Art and National Identities.

WHo We are


BAcHeLoR of dIGItAL medIA

ATAR 75

DURATION 3 years


ENTRY admission to the Bachelor of digital Media is based on the hSc aTaR (or equivalent), although outstanding results in relevant subjects/areas may also be taken into account.

LOCATION Wollongong

UAC 754650

CRICOS 071836a

As a discipline, digital media is focused on digital production, with a particular emphasis on creative applications of new media. The technologies that underpin digital media are rapidly evolving, and these constant changes create a vibrant environment for innovative creative practice.

Digital media is not just one thing—it’s all about convergence, the way different media and technologies can influence one another. Animation. Film making. Computer systems. Digital media stands at the intersection between technology and creativity.

wHAt YoU StUdYThe Bachelor of Digital Media (BDM) is a cross-institutional program taught by UOW and TAFE NSW Illawarra Institute. This collaboration means that, as well as a UOW degree, you will also receive a Certificate IV and Diploma from TAFE for your completion of digital media related studies and, depending on your subject selection, an Advanced Diploma.

These qualifications reflect the high level of academic and vocational skills provided by this course of study.

This degree combines practical subjects in digital media arts with an education in art theory and practice, enabling you to create innovative digital media works for a variety of contexts. TAFE subjects in animation, cinematography, editing and film/TV production give you the skills to produce creative projects for the screen, TV or online environment. You’ll also learn the historical and theoretical foundations of digital media arts, which will help position your work in a wider cultural context.

The practical components of the degree are taught at the Digital Media Centre at UOW’s Innovation Campus in North Wollongong. This state-of-the-art facility provides film studios, animation and computer labs, editing suites and exhibition spaces. Your practical training will be undertaken with industry-recognised hardware and software to ensure that you are working at the cutting edge of digital media arts. And the DMC’s facilities make it easy to share and exhibit your work: in the classroom, in specialised multimedia exhibition spaces and online.


cAReeRSGraduates from the Bachelor of Digital Media can pursue a number of different career paths, including:

§ Animator § Cinematographer § Digital Effects Editor § Film Maker § Online Content Producer § Production Coordinator

The vocational skills you develop in the Bachelor of Digital Media allow you to respond innovatively and flexibly to the rapidly changing media environment. Whether you’re animating a website or adding digital effects to a film, you need specialised technical skills and a clear grasp of how your own practice relates to the wider industry. Many careers are increasingly reliant on digital literacy and proficiency, and the key skills you learn in this degree can be applied in any field where a digital presence is required.

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WHo We are

ASSoCIAtE PRofESSoR BRoGAN BuNt pRogRAm conVenoR

Brogan has a background in traditional media production that is combined with current expertise in the field of media arts theory and software art. He has a particular interest in computational media and general media history and theory. Most recently, he produced the algorithmic print exhibition, Loom (2011), which explored the aesthetic potential of recursive geometric subdivision.

DR LuCAS IhLEIN lectuReR

Lucas is an artist who works across many different media, using blogging, social interactions, printmaking, public speaking, and performative methods of artmaking. In 2011 he was awarded the inaugural Alfred Deakin Medal for Best Doctoral Thesis in Humanities for his work titled “Framing Everyday Experience: Blogging as Art.”

MS Jo LAw lectuReR

Jo is an artist filmmaker whose works span a number of fields including experimental film and video, installation, interactive and online platforms, screen cultural program, and critical writing. Jo’s films, videos and installations have been shown widely across Australia and internationally. Her interactive online work, Project X, was included in Interactiva at the Museum of Contemporary Arts in Mexico.


tHeAtRe And PeRfoRmAnce

Theatre is a place and a practice where questions of political and personal identity, imagination and desire, history and its discontents can be explored; where the relationship between performer and audience is key. It may be a theatre of image or movement-based, be a play or group-devised work, use puppets and objects, or digital projection. Theatre is for children, for adults and for diverse communities. It may take place on a stage, in a quarry, on the street, or in an empty room.

Increasingly theatre uses sophisticated forms of technology. Whether you work backstage or onstage, a training in theatre will develop not only your creative and conceptual abilities but also your research, communication and practical skills.

Theatre is about collaboration. It relies on the coming together of theatre-makers: performers, directors, dramaturges, lighting and sound designers and stage managers as well as writers or devisors to create an encounter between the audience and the performance.

BAcHeLoR of cReAtIVe ARtS (tHeAtRe)


DURATION 3 years



LOCATION Wollongong


CRICOS 001709K

wHAt YoU StUdYA Bachelor of Creative Arts in Theatre equips you with skills in a broad range of performance-related areas, including performance, stage management, technical production and theatre history. This degree does not provide the intensive focus of the Bachelor of Performance, but offers a wider variety of practical experience and a strong foundation in history and dramaturgy.

You will gain an understanding of rehearsal and workshop methodologies, as well as learning techniques for compelling stagecraft in both performance and technical production. Dramaturgy and theatre history subjects provide the foundations for understanding the breadth of theatre practice and its history, allowing you to position your work within a wider historical and cultural context.

Our academic and technical staff have extensive experience as directors, writers, performers and designers, and their knowledge will help you develop your skills and abilities. You will also have the opportunity to collaborate with fellow students on workshops and productions.


cAReeRSTheatre graduates can use their skills to pursue a variety of different careers, including:

§ Actor § Singer § Director § Dramaturge § Lighting Designer § Stage Manager

§ Production Manager § Technical Manager § Teacher § Arts Administrator § Cultural Worker

This major combines performance skills, stagecraft, stage management, technical production, dramaturgy, history and theory. It is a flexible program that allows you to easily combine your love of acting and theatre with other minor areas of study including art history, creative writing, design theory, media arts, graphic design or technical theatre.

The BCA in Theatre equips you with skills in a variety of areas of performance and production. This variety is highly valuable in careers in theatre or film, but also gives scope for employment in arts administration, and government and community arts organisations.

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DR MARGAREt hAMILtoN SenIoR lectuReR

Margaret is the author of “Transfigured Stages: Major Practitioners and Theatre Aesthetics in Australia” (Rodopi, 2011). She specialises in research on postdramatic theatre in Australia and abroad.

MR ChRIStoPhER RyAN lectuReR

Christopher is a performer, director, dramaturge, and ar-tistic advisor. He has mentored many young and emerging theatre artists, companies and collectives. He is an as-sociate artist with Version 1.0 with whom he has worked as a performer/devisor and dramaturge.

DR JANyS hAyES lectuReR

Janys is a theatre director and actor. She trained as an actor with Yat Malmgren at Drama Centre London and has trained actors in Melbourne, Sydney and Wollongong, using Malmgren’s method. She has attracted grants both from the Australia Council and the NSW Ministry for the Arts for her work as both a director and performer.

WHo We are



ATAR The Faculty does not advertise an aTaR as additional selection criteria (audition/interview) is also used.

DURATION 3 years


ENTRY In addition to a Uac application, applicants must register directly with the Faculty by 30 October. For an audition or interview in order to demonstrate your ability to meet the criteria for a proposed major, please refer to the faculty website for details www.uow.edu.au/crearts/futureundergrad

Students who complete the first year of the Bachelor of creative arts (Theatre) to a high standard may apply to be considered for a place in the Bachelor of performance; however, places will be strictly limited and the process highly competitive.

LOCATION Wollongong

UAC acting & performance Making: 754800 Technical Theatre: 754810

CRICOS 072568G

wHAt YoU StUdYIn the Bachelor of Performance, you can choose from the following two majors. You will further focus on the Acting and Performance Making major by choosing a specialisation from your second year.

actinG anD PerForMance MaKinGThe Acting and Performance Making major allows you to focus either on interpretation and performance of theatre texts, or on devising your own works for performance. Here actors learn the skills required to pursue careers in acting for theatre and performance, ranging from the traditional staging of plays to more contemporary forms of performance, including the generation of self-devised performances, and multimedia installation works.

Acting specialisation: You will undertake a traditional interpretive actor training, developing skills in acting, voice, singing and movement. In introductory subjects, you acquire competencies in theatre-making with an emphasis on collaboration and ensemble practice. You’ll also study the history and theory of theatre and undertake studies in professional practice.

Performance making specialisation: You share foundation studies with Acting students; however, from the second year, the focus is on devised works for theatre and modes of contemporary performance.

tecHnical tHeatreThis major allows you to focus on all the creative, organisational and technical skills necessary to bring a professional theatre production into being and to work in theatres and other venues. You’ll acquire skills in stage management, sound, lighting and audio visual design, and learn to apply those skills by working on theatre productions, performances, installations and events.

Actors, creatives and technicians work together to produce a number of productions directed by professionals working with students throughout the degree. Creative Arts offers access to rehearsal studios and performance spaces, including the FCA Performance Space and the recently-built Backstage Hope. Our academic and technical staff have extensive experience as directors, writers, performers and designers, and their knowledge will help you develop your skills and abilities to a professional level.

cAReeRSThe Bachelor of Performance provides the skills required to pursue many different careers, such as:

§ Actor § Singer § Director § Dramaturge § Performance-maker § Lighting and Audiovisual Designer § Sound Designer § Stage Manager § Production Manager

Graduates from the Bachelor of Performance are trained to be versatile, highly skilled and self-reliant theatre practitioners, with valuable experience in both traditional and contemporary forms of theatre and performance. Graduates may go onto work in mainstage and independent theatre, they may choose to start their own ensembles, or to create highly experimental work in areas such as puppetry, outdoor performance, theatre by and for children and young people, or in community practice.

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WHo We are

PRofESSoR SARAh MILLER pRofeSSoR of peRfoRmAnce, And ASSocIAte deAn: ReSeARch, cReAtIVe And pRofeSSIonAl pRActIce

Sarah has worked in many capacities in the arts including performer and writer, producer/curator and Executive Director, working across the visual, performing, hybrid and media arts.

DR LottE LAtuKEfu lectuReR

Lotte is a singer who has performed with several Australian and Symphony Orchestras. In 2011 she received national awards and citations for her outstanding contribution to teaching and learning and has published internationally on a pioneering, research-led model of learning singing underpinned by socio-cultural theories.

MR tIM MADDoCK SenIoR lectuReR

Tim is a director, designer and actor. He has directed new plays for prestigious companies nationally, including: Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, Griffin Theatre Company, Sydney Theatre Company, Red Shed Theatre and Brink Productions.

DR CAthERINE MCKINNoN lectuReR

Catherine is a playwright, novelist and director, who has directed for Red Shed Theatre and the State Theatre Company of South Australia. Her novel, “The Nearly Happy Family”, is published by Penguin Viking (2008) In 2011, she received Australia Council funding to write a new trilogy of plays.

leARn moReCREATIVE ARTS CENTRAL

Phone +61 2 4221 3996 email [email protected] www.uow.edu.au/crearts

GENERAL ENQUIRIES

Within australia: 1300 367 869 international: +61 2 4221 3218 [email protected] facebook.com/uowfuturewww.uow.edu.au/future

The University of Wollongong attempts to ensure the information contained in this publication is correct at the time of production (June 2012); however, sections may be amended without notice by the University in response to changing circumstances or for any other reason. Check with the University at the time of application/enrolment for any updated information. UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG CRICOS: 00102E

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