ENG-10082 - 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 prepares you for studying creative writing at university, introducing you to all the ‘writing selves’ needed when seeking publication and building an authorial profile. You will explore how self-narratives, new journalism, guerrilla-writing, and broadcasting platforms foster ways to extend and complement your practice outside traditional routes; how to deliver manuscripts to publishers, agents, and competitions, including how to respond to commissions via authentic briefs. You will also gain a practical foundation in performing your work publicly on/offline.

This module aims to establish and develop the student's understanding of the conventions and practices of the profession of creative writing, including the preparation, editing and submission routes for original work, the performance/dissemination of one's writing in different venues and ideas of publication and performance.

Intended Learning Outcomes

evaluate an existing piece of literature or performance in a review intended to be shared on a specific platform and targeted towards a specific audience: 2
develop skills in writing a portfolio of original work which is designed for a specific platform: 3
evaluate their own work in the context of the wider cultural landscape: 3
perform their work to an audience in performance conditions: 1
author and deliver work to a specific brief according to the guidelines of professional publication: 1,3

Study hours

12 hours - lecture
12 hours - seminar
24 hours - writing workshops
114 hours - personal writing and composition
108 hours - seminar prep and pre-reading
10 hours - group prep and presentation rehearsal
20 - wider cultural research

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment