ENG-10080 - 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

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2025/26

This module introduces you to the characteristics and structure of poems, through an examination of 5 key ‘modes’ of poetry, looking closely at how these achieve their ends. You will learn how to identify these characteristics and structural elements through lecture input, discussion and consideration of example poems by a range of authors. You will also learn how to deploy this understanding into the writing of your own poetry, and share/discuss your own creative work with your fellow writers.

To introduce students to the key characteristics of poetry.
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

recognise some of the key literary characteristics of poetry and the terminology used to describe it: 1,2
write poems that demonstrate an engagement with the poetic modes studied on the module: 2
reflect critically on the creative practice of themselves and others: 1

Study hours

Lectures: 6 hours
Reading Groups: 6 hours
Peer Review Workshops: 12 hours
Individual study, reading group and writers’ workshop preparation: 90 hours
Assessment preparation: 36 hours

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment