CRWT30160 Special Topics Workshop I

Academic Year 2022/2023

Special Topics is a module which provides student writers a workshop to practice the art of writing, and to explore a range of craft issues within the context of a special topic. This module will focus on autofiction, personal essay, and memoir – life writing – as a process with interesting and important implications for form, content, approach, and our sense of ourselves as writers, narrators, or characters in our own creative work. We will read important and provocative examples from this genre, workshop our own personal or auto-fictive narratives, and produce a portfolio work that is inventively shaped by and responds to the themes of the course.

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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 course texts in context;
• examine and experiment with writing from life and cultivating a reflective sense
• your own writing style and creative identity;
• demonstrate the ability to engage in a process of revising your own creative
• Writing;
• comment critically upon the texts assigned;
• show an understanding of a range of theoretical and aesthetic concerns related
• to the special topic;
• offer meaningful feedback to your peers’ creative writing.

Indicative Module Content:

Life writing, memoir, personal essay, autofiction, writing the self

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Tutorial

24
Specified Learning Activities

116
Autonomous Student Learning

100
Total

240
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
key teaching and learning approaches used in the module, ; peer and group work; lectures; critical writing; reflective learning; student presentations, etc. 
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: A portfolio of creative and critical work. Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded Yes

100

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring 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, and Peer review activities