Creative Writing Core Course 1 (P00694)

? Credit Points : 40 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : LLC-P-P00694

Students attend weekly 2-hour tutor-led workshops presenting work of their own and engaging in the detailed analysis and criticism of work by the other students. They also attend a weekly 2-hour seminar exploring specific techniques and issues of creative writing, and the statements and theories of practitioners. There are two pathways through the core course, one focusing on prose and one on poetry.

Entry Requirements

? Costs : Essential course texts

Subject Areas

Home subject area

English Literature, (School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures, Schedule G)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 1 (Blocks 1-2)

? Contact Teaching Time : 4 hour(s) per week for 11 weeks

? Additional Class Information : Hours to be decided
Plus attendance at readings and other events - variable hours.

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

By engaging and experimenting with a range of particular poetic or narrative practices and ideas, students will be encouraged to develop their own creative awareness and skills. By analysis of the work of others, as well as their own, they will not only enhance their critical capacities and their faculty of self-assessment, but learn how to support other writers in their development.

Assessment Information

A portfolio of work submitted at the end of the semester deriving from topics addressed in the seminar series: either prose fiction c. 10,000 words; or play/film script c. 20 pages; or poetry c. 20 pages. Presentation of own work at least twice in the semester.