ENG-20120 - 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

In this module, you will explore the literary practices behind the act and art of writing for younger readers, through both reading and writing children's literature. You will explore landmark texts that altered the publishing landscape for children’s books and you will practise form and medium, writing in response to your environment on Keele’s unique campus (e.g. the Observatory; Keele Hall). You will come to understand through theory and practice the ever-changing nature of younger readerships and how narratives have now come to reflect all stages of childhood to ‘kidulthood'.

1. To introduce students to key literary texts in the field
2. To develop students' knowledge and understanding of concepts related to children's writing
3. To advance students' understandings of children's writing as a creative activity
4. To introduce students to relevant creative methods and techniques for children's writing

Intended Learning Outcomes

demonstrate awareness and understanding of children's literature as a creative activity that has developed through time: 1,2
practise relevant creative methods and techniques suitable to genres of children's writing: 2
reflect critically on their own reading and how that informs creative practice: 1,2
exercise creative methods to target specific readerships: 2

Study hours

24 hours: workshops
76 hours: preparing for workshops - reading set texts and writing creatively
10 hours: researching and writing essay
40 hours: researching and writing portfolio

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment