Module Catalogue 2025/26

Pre Requisite Comment

Pre-requisite SEL1000 is for QW38 students only.
Pre-requisite SEL2215 is for all students, though students from other programmes may apply to the Module Leader.

Co Requisite Comment

N/A

Aims

To develop an understanding of the basic elements of poetry and to develop reading and writing skills in poetry. To develop experience of redrafting and editing work in response to feedback.

Outline Of Syllabus

The module consists of a combination of lectures and seminars delivered weekly.

There will also be individual tutorials to be scheduled throughout the semester by teaching staff, at which each student may present a passage of their own writing for constructive criticism from their tutor, or submission plans may be discussed.

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

Students will expand their knowledge of reading poetry, writing poetry, and editing their work in response to feedback.

Intended Skill Outcomes

1. The ability to create and develop a poem.
2. The ability to apply craft skills, techniques and methods to own creative work.
3. The ability to maintain a creative journal.
4. The ability to build on and develop work already underway and engage in the process of editing and revision.
5. The ability to read exemplar and other texts with attention to verbal and formal creativity.
6. The ability to assess and reflect upon their own creative work and the work of peers with constructive rigour in seminar, and in their creative journal.
7. The ability to demonstrate engagement with the critical process in an essay.

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

The weekly lecture introduces the students to formal questions about poetry, and sets tasks and exercises to help them write.

The weekly seminar workshops enable the general principles of the course to be applied through close reading, or set exercises, or in practical critique of individual pieces of writing, led by the tutor.

The individual tutorial is designed to help students prepare for their final submission.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

Students will submit ten to twelve poems, depending on length (14-40 lines is an acceptable average length). An essay of 1500 words will also be submitted. In this students should discuss their drafting process, and their principles of selection. They should also discuss any relevant information about genre, influences and themes explored in their work. It must include a bibliography of books read and events attended as part of this module.

The submission of creative work allows students to develop the range of skills and knowledge associated with the course. The accompanying essay enables to student reflect critically upon their own creative processes, and to relate these to contemporary literature.

General Notes

N/A