CRWT30220 Dissertation (Creative)

Academic Year 2021/2022

This OPTIONAL module is offered over T1 and T2, 2021/2 with a cumulative total of 20 credits. It offers you the opportunity to develop a creative project or research topic based on your own particular interests, e.g. fiction, poetry, etc. Within the English with Creative Writing pathway, a creative dissertation is available to you. This is viewed as a practice-led research project with a critical reflection. Based on your topic or genre, you will be assigned a supervisor from amongst the School staff who will help to direct your research and develop your project over a series of meetings. These meetings will take place at set times over the course of the trimester and attendance at these meetings is required. You will present your research in the form of a 10,000-word dissertation, 8,500 words of creative work in prose or an equivalence in poetry and 1,500 words of critical reflection.

The module content will be made up of the writing and redrafting of a research topic or creative project under the supervision of a staff member.

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

Upon successful completion of this module, you will be able to:
- demonstrate the ability to engage in a process of revising your own creative work
- comment critically on your own writing process
- show understanding of a range of theoretical and aesthetic concerns related to
the craft of creative writing
- complete an extended piece of original, creative work

Indicative Module Content:

The module content will be made up of the writing and redrafting of a research topic or creative project under the supervision of a staff member.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Project Supervision

48
Specified Learning Activities

152
Autonomous Student Learning

200
Total

400
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
This is viewed as a practice-led research project with a critical reflection. Based on your topic or genre, you will be assigned a supervisor from amongst the School staff who will help to direct your research and develop your project over a series of meetings.
Reflective learning; drafting; revision, and rewriting and consultation with supervisors are major elements of the T&L strategy. 
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: The portfolio of work submitted for each trimester contributes to 10 credits of this 20 credit 2 trimester module. Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded No

100

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Remediation Type Remediation Timing
Repeat Within Two Trimesters
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

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment This can be through different approaches such as oral, audio, video and/or written/annotated feedback, either in-class, out of class, in meetings, through the VLE, by email, using rubrics, etc. Individual sessions to be arranged with your supervisor.

Name Role
Professor Anne Enright Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Dr Adam Kelly Lecturer / Co-Lecturer