BATCC2005 Reading and Writing Poetry
This unit is a study of a wide range of historical to contemporary poetry in the English language, focusing on poetic style, form, genre, and literary history. The unit addresses the theory and practice of using poetic techniques, such as symbolism, imagery and figurative language, rhyme, metre and special verse forms. Topics and genres may include traditional and literary ballad, special verse forms (such as the sonnet, villanelle, haiku or verse-novel), free verse, and contemporary spoken word poetry. The unit is designed to develop skills and confidence in understanding and critiquing poetry, and should be of value to creative writers or anyone working closely with language. Students will be introduced to a wide range of poetic texts and encouraged to explore and study their own texts in the context of poetic traditions and genres, as well as to engage directly with the writing of poetic texts in tutorial/workshop mode and/or for assessment.
Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) unit fee
A Commonwealth Supported Place (CSP) is one that is subsidised by the Australian Government, which means students only pay the student contribution amount of the tuition fee. CSPs are only available to eligible domestic students.
The student contribution amount depends on the unit and how much funding the Government provides. Each unit is classified into a band based on its discipline (which may be different to your overall course discipline).
2025 student contribution amount: $578
2025 grandfathered student contribution amount (for students who commenced before 1 Jan 2021*): $578
* If you are a continuing student (who commenced your course before 1 January 2021) you will continue paying the same amount as you would have, had legislative reforms not been implemented for any units that would otherwise have an increased student contribution amount.