CRWT30100 Advanced Poetry Workshop

Academic Year 2022/2023

This course will expose students to the main forms of contemporary poetry and the debates around them.

Students will respond creatively to writing exercises designed to explore the lyric poem, the persona poem and poems which play with language and form as well as image-based poems and ‘found’ poetry. They will develop a sense of how their creative practice can enhance critical thinking.

Students are enabled to recognise the different kinds of texts that occur in contemporary poetry and they begin to acquire ways of contextualising their own work. They leave the course with a portfolio of poems and with ideas for future writing. Students will develop a sense of how poetry feeds into the wider culture and how they might contribute to that in the future.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of the module, you will be able to:
 demonstrate knowledge of the works of a range of poets
 examine and experiment with a number of techniques used by these poets
 demonstrate the ability to engage in a process of revising your own poems
 comment analytically and critically upon the texts assigned
 show understanding of a range of theoretical and aesthetic concerns related to
the craft of poetry

Indicative Module Content:

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

0
Seminar (or Webinar)

24
Specified Learning Activities

76
Autonomous Student Learning

100
Total

200
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Workshop, peer-review and self-reflective learning 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Portfolio: Portfolio of poems and a critical reflection Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded Yes

80
Continuous Assessment: Continuous Assessment - participation Throughout the Trimester n/a Graded No

20

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Autumn No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Peer review activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment