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Module

SEL8686 : The Longer Poem and the Sequence (Inactive)

  • Inactive for Year: 2024/25
  • Module Leader(s): Professor Sinéad Morrissey
  • Owning School: English Lit, Language & Linguistics
  • Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus
Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Semester 2 Credit Value: 20
ECTS Credits: 10.0
European Credit Transfer System

Aims

To extend the range of skills and subject matter of students engaged in writing poetry towards the composition of longer poems and sequences; to allow students to reflect creatively and critically on their own and other people's writing.

Outline Of Syllabus

The Longer Poem and the Sequence combines writing activities with discussion of existing examples, leading to a draft of the student’s own extended poem.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities
Category Activity Number Length Student Hours Comment
Guided Independent StudyAssessment preparation and completion1179:40179:40N/A
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesLecture102:0020:00N/A
Scheduled Learning And Teaching ActivitiesDrop-in/surgery10:200:20Scheduled at student and tutor's convenience
Total200:00
Teaching Rationale And Relationship

Throughout the weeks of study students will undertake writing exercises in the seminars and will reflect as a group upon each other’s writing. They will incorporate comments through revision and selection of, and commentary upon, their final submission of poems

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment
Description Semester When Set Percentage Comment
Portfolio2A100A mixed portfolio of poetic and essayistic work. The submission should not usually exceed 4000 words.
Assessment Rationale And Relationship

A file of creative work enables the student to consolidate their work in the light of comments recieved; the essay allows for reflection on the creative practice.

Reading Lists

Timetable