Welcome to Writing and Cultural Studies
Writing has the power to transform in some small way the world of the person who reads.
(Cathy Cole 2003)
The Writing and Cultural Studies program at the University of Technology offers Australia's longest established and most highly regarded writing and cultural studies program.
Courses at undergraduate and coursework postgraduate levels offer a fusion of writing as a creative practice and critical study as an exploration of contemporary media, art and popular culture. The approach to learning, teaching and research situates creative practice at the heart of critical and theoretical exploration. This approach incorporates a wide field of theoretical and practice-based studies, including fiction, non-fiction, writing for screen, poetry, popular cultures, film, music, the written word, aesthetics and poetics, on-line media, international and Indigenous studies.
Since its inception in the 1980s, UTS has maintained its reputation as Australia's leading academic course for cultural critics and creative writers at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels, with an outstanding record of publications, awards and literary prizes, grants and international residencies where both students and staff are concerned.
Staff and students also connect with a range of professional, industry-based and applied research as well as with publishers, the publishing industry and film funding bodies.
'The editing subjects at UTS are an excellent and really solid foundation for a career in the publishing industry. The information, skills and contacts I gained while studying have been invaluable, especially as they were gained in an environment where the writer's process is seen as paramount.'
Kate O'Donnell, former student, now editor at HarperCollins Publishers