Teaching Responsibility

LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:

Liverpool Screen School

Learning Methods

Seminar

Module Offerings

4040CW-SEP-MTP

Aims

1. To introduce students to the habits and disciplines of a writing practice and to enable them to explore strategies for creative inspiration and expression.
2. To introduce students to the importance of observation, investigation and imagination, developing an ability to relate to their environment with a writer's eye and to draw on their own experiences to create original writing.
3. To encourage students to expand their thinking about the possibilities of writing, including introducing them to potentially unfamiliar genres (such as creative nonfiction) and to the value of other cultural forms (such as visual art) for writers.
4. To introduce students to the importance and value of reflecting on their own practice as students of writing, as writers and as learners.

Learning Outcomes

1.
Demonstrate the ability to produce effective short pieces of creative writing based on specified prompts
2.
Demonstrate the ability to work both independently and as part of a small group in accomplishing specific creative, reflective and observational tasks.
3.
Demonstrate the ability to reflect analytically on your own practice and development as a writer and as a member of a community of student writers.

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:
The module will develop students' ability to engage with their environment as source and inspiration for creative writing, through focused exercises, seminar discussion and (where appropriate) off-site visits. It will encourage and enable students to see themselves as practising writers, and to reflect on elements of their own process and practice. The module will introduce students to a range of reading across genres (including non-fiction), and will encourage and enable them to synthesise personal material and wider sources to create compelling pieces of writing.
Module Overview:
The module encompasses intercultural and boundary spanning skills, professionalwritten and spoken communication and collaboration between students as they areintroduced to workshopping techniques.
Additional Information:
The module encompasses intercultural and boundary spanning skills, professional written and spoken communication and collaboration between students as they are introduced to workshopping techniques.

Assessments

Reflection
Portfolio