Delight in the revelatory power of an unforgettable phrase, the delicious slipperiness of language, the myriad satisfactions of story, and the adaptability of narratives that migrate from page to stage and screens large or small. As a postgraduate student of Creative Writing at LASALLE, you will study alongside a rich community of visual artists, filmmakers, designers, dancers, photographers, actors and other arts professionals in a programme validated by celebrated arts university, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Elsewhere, Creative Writing students and faculty are isolated from other campus artist-researchers or overshadowed by science and business programmes. At LASALLE's vibrant, downtown campus our MA Creative Writing students work in a creative milieu devoted exclusively to artists and art professionals.
The MA Creative Writing Programme is available in two modes: full-time for three semesters over one-and-a-half years or part-time for six semesters over three years. Writing students gain both breadth and depth through workshops devoted to all the major genres (fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama) followed by a creative thesis project written in the genre of their choice. This sustained study of writing, editing and publishing also provides students a critical, theoretical and historical framework for the analysis of literature, art, communication and arts pedagogy.
Intensive graduate writing workshops and dialogue with visiting writers improves writing, reading and editing abilities while also providing meta-lessons in perception, creative problemsolving, social-emotional intelligence, communicative precision, interpersonal diplomacy, community, empathy, and, yes, human nature. Timeless philosophical questions about identity, knowledge, individuality, work, community, family, nationality, love, ethics and meaning, etc., arise and evolve through sustained, informed and self- aware writing in addition to consultations with our published writing faculty, workshop peers, guest writers and industry professionals. LASALLE offers all its students a steady parade of visiting artists and art professionals devoted to aesthetic perfection, informed creativity and passionate enquiry.
We prepare the writers, editors, publishers, cultural curators and writing teachers of tomorrow within and beyond dynamic, energetic Singapore. With its international partnership with Goldsmiths, its rich history of arts education and exciting new MA Programmes Arts Pedagogy and Practice, Art Therapy, Asian Art Histories and Arts and Cultural Leadership, LASALLE is proud to provide the first taught MA Creative Writing in Singapore while also aligning Singapore and Southeast Asia to the world's exponentially growing market for literary production, publishing and pedagogy.
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- (Awarding University) LASALLE College of the Arts
- (Local Institution) LASALLE College of the Arts
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