ENG-30100 - 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

Description for 2025/26

This module gives you the opportunity to plan and develop an extended creative writing project, drawing on one of the main fields of study during the degree - poetry, prose, script, creative non-fiction; and using such platforms as text-based; digital formats; and community-focused creative practice.
The exact nature of the project will be negotiated with your course tutors but you may wish to produce a collection of poems or short stories, or a longer piece of prose fiction or part of a novel, or a drama/screenplay. You might be interested in working with non-traditional platforms for showcasing your work, or placing your creative practice in a community-focused way.
The project extends over two semesters. In Semester 1, workshops and discussion groups support you in reading relevant works and planning your eventual portfolio of writing or creative practice, as well as offering the chance to get critical feedback on early draft pieces of writing and project ideas. By the end of this semester, you will draw up a Creative Brief, which identifies the scope and intention of the creative work to be completed in the second Semester.
In Semester 2, you will write or create your Portfolio under supervision and with peer support.

To enable students to research an aspect of contemporary literary practice with a view to locating their own creative work in that practice, developing a portfolio of original writing or equivalent project in a single medium (prose, poetry, script, digital or community project).
To enable students critically to locate their own creative practice within existing traditions and contemporary writing.

Intended Learning Outcomes

produce a substantial portfolio of creative practice in a single medium and with a unifying element: 2
reflect critically on their own creative practice and locate it within existing practices and the literary landscape: 1,3
be practised in the giving and receiving of critical feedback on their own writing and the writing of their peers.: 3
engage in reading which identifies writerly practice and identifies literary antecedents: 1,3
design and deliver a project which showcases their creative skills in a chosen medium of delivery: 1,2

Study hours

Workshops 12 hours
Supervision 4 hours
Peer Workshops 12 hours
Research 198 hours
Writing 74 hours

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment