ENG-10074 - Module Specification
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2025/26

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

N/A

Barred Combinations

N/A

Description for 2025/26

This module introduces you to key characteristics of fiction. You will gain an understanding of how these can be employed to explore the meaning of a text. Engaging with prose writers from all over the world, you will learn how to analyse core elements such as narrative voice, structure and the evocation of place, and develop your own ability to write short, creative prose pieces. You will attain a solid foundation for writing longer prose pieces in the future.

To introduce students to the key characteristics of prose fiction.
To show how the understanding of these characteristics can be employed to explore the meaning of a text.
To provide students with an awareness of the literary traditions to which their writing might respond.
To provide students with an awareness of the contemporary literary context of their own writing.
To introduce an awareness of form and genre to students' own creative writing.
To give students the opportunity to engage with creative as well as critical practice and to begin to explore the relationship between the two.

Intended Learning Outcomes

analyse the distinctive characteristics of prose fiction (narrative voice, narrative structure, evocation of place etc.: 1,2
write short, creative prose pieces that demonstrate an engagement with the critical questions raised on the module: 1,2
reflect critically on the creative practice of themselves and others: 2
engage critically with the work of a range of authors of short fiction: 2
demonstrate analytic skills - close reading, description and analysis of form and meaning - using appropriate literary terminology: 2

Study hours

12 x 1 hour reading groups/seminars
12 x 1 hour creative writing workshops
63 hours independent study (reading)
63 hours independent study (writing)

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment