Module Catalogue 2024/25

Pre Requisite Comment

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Co Requisite Comment

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Aims

As in Workshop 1, the aim is to extend and nuance the range of skills and subject matter of students writing poetry and to encourage formal and thematic experimentation, while allowing students the framework in which to reflect critically and creatively on their own and other people’s writing.

Outline Of Syllabus

Over the course of taught sessions and scheduled individual tutorials, students will look at a range of poetry and poetic devices in order to develop their understanding of the tools and resources available to them as writers. Students will explore potential poetic sources and resources, experiment with a variety of dictions and registers, and have the chance to move towards developing their work in response to seminars, tutorials, and independent study and practice. Please see Module Guide for detail.

Intended Knowledge Outcomes

Students will acquire and strengthen their knowledge of a range of poetic forms, techniques and thematic concerns and of a variety of perspectives from which these can be approached.

Students will gain the considered use of tone, register, structure, genre and audience in their own writing; as well as an understanding of editorial approaches and processes.

Intended Skill Outcomes

Students will develop the confidence to experiment with their own work and to produce considered and disciplined revision of their poems. They will learn to read and evaluate the work of other writers and to evaluate and develop their own writing in the context of this, as well as to receive and incorporate constructive feedback.

Students will be able to produce artistically coherent and technically sophisticated written work, which articulates a combination of research and creative ideas; they will also be able to use language with a heightened awareness of concision, voice, idiolect, metaphor, rhythm, and media-specific restraints.

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Through close reading, discussion, writing exercises, and feedback received in seminars and tutorials, students will apply their knowledge of a range of poetic forms, techniques and thematic concerns to their own writing practice. They will incorporate the skills of revision, self-evaluation, and selection into the preparation of their final portfolio.

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

Students demonstrate acquisition of knowledge and skills through the submission of their creative work and further demonstrate their understanding of their own creative practice through the accompanying essayistic work.

General Notes

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