• Inactive for Year: 2024/25

• Module Leader(s): Professor Jacob Polley
• Co-Module Leader: Dr Tara Bergin, Professor Sinéad Morrissey

• Owning School: English Lit, Language & Linguistics
• Teaching Location: Newcastle City Campus

• Capacity limit: 80 student places

Semesters

Your programme is made up of credits, the total differs on programme to programme.

Aims

This module provides a continued introduction to a variety of processes and practices involved in the
development of creative and essayistic work.
It is concerned with the development of knowledge, understanding and experience of a range of
creative approaches to writing.
It encourages critical consideration of creative methods and habits, and introduces a variety of
intellectual and practical approaches to the compilation of a creative work.
It supports and encourages students to take responsibility for their learning and to develop creative
thinking and judgement.
It aims to inspire students to use their understanding of a variety of creative practices as a means of
improving their own creative, reflective and critical practices.

Outline Of Syllabus

In the lecture/workshops (and/or online equivalent) students will continue to be introduced to a variety of creative
practices, approaches and influences, and explore and discuss the ways that these can affect
creative writing. Students will practice, evaluate and develop their own creative work as a response
to the topics investigated during formal teaching, as well as carrying out independent research into
their own creative practices, approaches and influences.

Teaching Methods

Teaching Activities

Teaching Rationale And Relationship

A programme of lectures will support the development and reflective critical evaluation of individual creative writing
practice as well as encouraging students to identify the context in which they are working. The lectures will cover
subjects such as the habits and processes that lie behind certain creative works, and the potential creative practices
available to creative writing students. The workshops will provide peer and tutor
support and feedback on individual creative approaches, developing the ability for critical reading of others’ work as
well as for self-evaluation and drafting. This module places emphasis on the production of a portfolio of creative and
essayistic work, developed through an increased awareness of a range of creative practices. This portfolio puts into
practice the idea that creative writing can be a method of research and exploratory discovery, as well as
demonstrating a critical awareness of the context in which the portfolio has been produced and how individual
practice relates to that of predecessors and contemporaries, peers and established practitioners.
Professional guest speakers will be invited, where possible, to enhance and diversify learning.

Assessment Methods

The format of resits will be determined by the Board of Examiners

Other Assessment

Assessment Rationale And Relationship

The portfolio will illustrate the student’s ability to select, use and analyse new ideas about creative practices, and will demonstrate their ability to apply their understanding of the effects of creative processes to their own writing practice.

Reading Lists

• SEL2238's Reading List

Timetable

• Timetable Website: www.ncl.ac.uk/timetable/
• SEL2238's Timetable