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121252 UE Creative Writing (2023W)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle

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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 22 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Tuesday 10.10. 16:15 - 17:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 17.10. 16:15 - 17:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 24.10. 16:15 - 17:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 31.10. 16:15 - 17:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 07.11. 16:15 - 17:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 14.11. 16:15 - 17:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 21.11. 16:15 - 17:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 28.11. 16:15 - 17:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 05.12. 16:15 - 17:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 12.12. 16:15 - 17:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 09.01. 16:15 - 17:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 16.01. 16:15 - 17:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 23.01. 16:15 - 17:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21
  • Tuesday 30.01. 16:15 - 17:45 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Content:
This creative writing course is designed to for all MA Literature and Cultural Studies students (including those who are curious about creative writing and interested in developing their creative voice but have no prior experience). The purpose of the course is for students to achieve a higher degree of nuance, fluency, and aesthetic expertise in their ability to both analyze and produce narrative texts. The language competence themes of the course are:
- literary techniques and storytelling design
- rhetorical devices and aesthetic/emotional engagement of the
audience
- language play
- some limited examination of visual and spoken rhetoric when relevant

Aims:
- to develop writing skills needed to produce a range of aesthetic, engaging, coherent, and cohesive texts embedded in a social, cultural environment.
- to increase competence in identifying and using significant lexical, grammatical, stylistic, narrative, and visual/spoken features of a text.
- to develop confidence in employing imagination, creativity, and self-expression.
- to reflect critically on self-produced work and the work of others.
- to develop skills in text mediation.

Objectives: After completing the course, students can
- give a critical appraisal of works of different narrative genres appreciating subtle distinctions of style.
- recognize and use the finer subtleties of nuanced language, rhetorical effect, and stylistic language (e.g. metaphors, repetition, irony, alliteration, intertextual reference, dialogue, setting details, point of view, character development).
- critically evaluate the way in which structure, language, and rhetorical devices are exploited in a work for a particular purpose.
- give a critical appreciation of deliberate breaches of linguistic conventions in a piece of writing.
- describe in detail their own emotional response to a work outlining their reactions to certain features and explaining the significance.
- produce clear, detailed, well-structured, and developed imaginative texts in an assured, personal, natural style appropriate to the reader in mind.
- exploit storytelling and rhetorical devices appropriately to enhance the impact of a text.

Methods:
Communicative language practice; project-based learning; genre analysis; production and mediation of aesthetic, narrative genres drawing upon a process and workshop approach to writing.

Assessment and permitted materials

Class participation, two individual written assignments, a team project, and weekly reading and creative writing tasks.

Assignment 1 (individual): a personal review of a literary work
Assignment 2 (individual): a piece of flash fiction
Assignment 3: team project
Curated Portfolio of weekly reading and creative writing tasks (Imagination Journal)

Students who do not have prior experience with creative writing are supported throughout the class in completing the assignments and overcoming blocks or perceived limitations in creative writing.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Attendance (max. 2 absences)

Part 1: Individual work:
- Assignment 1: 20%
- Assignment 2: 20%
- Weekly reading and creative writing homework: 15%

Part 2: Team project:
- Proposal: 10%
- Analysis and mediation project: 25%
- Project presentation: 10%

Both parts must be completed and positive. The passing grade is 60%.

Grading scale:
1 (Sehr gut) 100-90%
2 (Gut) 89-80%
3 (Befriedigend) 79-70%
4 (Genügend) 69-60%
5 (Nicht genügend) 59-0%

Your work may be subjected to the plagiarism detection software Turnitin. The lecturer may arrange individual meetings to ask you questions about your submissions.

Examination topics

Continuous assessment is based on what is covered in the course; relevant materials will be provided in class and on Moodle.

Reading list

There is no reader for this course.

Association in the course directory

Studium: MA 844/2
Code/Modul: M02
Lehrinhalt: 12-0576

Last modified: Sa 30.09.2023 00:04