This unit explores the theory and practice of reportage. It examines the history of reportage in literary genres, as well as analysing the specificity of modern reportage through the examination of political, celebrity, travel, and food writing. As well as coming to understand the emergence and forms of this genre, students will have the opportunity to practice writing in these modes.

This is a production unit enabling students to develop a professional portfolio of published writing in a variety of genres. Students are given the opportunity to work in both electronic and print modes, and in collaboration with visual designers.

Experimental Writing and Electronic Publication is a practical and experiential exploration of modernist writing practices. Students will be introduced to a range of innovative writing techniques designed to stimulate creative thinking and assist in the development of a regular writing practice. Areas of study include: exploration of pre-writing processes; experimental writing genres; power of language; evaluative process; and the development of individual and collaborative techniques for planning and executing writing projects. A primary component of this unit includes working on writing exercises both at home and in class. These exercises will be used to develop the end-of-unit major project.

This unit examines the self as it is composed in the broad field of writing, and different ways of thinking about what makes us who we are and how we write ourselves into being. We take the genre of autobiography and various writerly uses of autobiographical experience as a starting point for the development of students' own writing projects. We explore the importance of childhood and fantasy, dreams and current everyday experience as stimuli for writing, and what makes autobiography different from other genres, as well as how autobiographical elements are incorporated into other genres and modified through them.