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Creative Writing

September 2023

• To empower students to become creative thinkers and articulate practitioners, able to think through and beyond the creative processes that drive their study and to reflect on their practice within a wider, relevant intellectual context.

• To provide students with key skills in the design, development and delivery of creative tasks such as writing for theatre, radio, film and television and an understanding of the historical and contemporary processes and methodologies relevant to the field.

• To encourage the academic examination of a broad range of artistic style, genres and forms that will directly feed into student understanding of and engagement with their own creative work and projects.

• To develop methodologies for producing creative outputs across the wide range of media current in writing for theatre, film and television and radio and to examine, understand and implement different ways of writing.

• To develop and direct their individual and collective creative impulses and methodologies to enable production of creative work that engages with external demands and timetables.

• To develop a sophisticated understanding of their relationship with the professional world in which writers for theatre, film and television and radio conduct and complete their work.

• To develop a range of strategies for designing, developing and delivering creative outputs that includes the ability to engage with and build on external, constructive, critical feedback.

• To read as a writer and respond to the affective qualities of language, style and genre.

• To engage in research and intellectual enquiry relevant to the task and field of study.

• To cultivate the ability to work constructively as a member of a group, assuming varied roles within that group.

• To foster independent thought and the ability to follow through on an individual vision.

• To enhance the development of communication skills, enabling students to express themselves coherently, imaginatively and persuasively both orally and in writing in creative forms and formats and forums.

• produce clear, accurate, artistically coherent and technically sophisticated written work, which articulates a combination of research and creative ideas.

The programme provides opportunities for students to develop and demonstrate knowledge and understanding, skills, qualities and other attributes in the following areas:

A1 Drama, theatre and performance as sites of study, thought and creative interplay that interact directly with audiences

A2 Film and Television and Radio as creative media that engage creatively with audience experience in varied and sophisticated ways

A3 A range of historical and contemporary performative texts that form the creative basis for films, television, radio and theatre events and experiences

A4 A range of key writings in the area of theatre, radio, film and television, including the critical and creative output of theorists, writers, directors, designer, actors and critics.

A5 The processes, methodologies and strategies by which theatre, film and television and radio scripts are produced and realized.

Learning and Teaching
The proposed new scheme builds on the department’s commitment to equipping students to understand and engage with the professional, industry environment in which the creative arts operate and is developed and nurtured. It speaks to the departmental agenda that provides professionally orientated learning and introduces new industry-orientated skills-based opportunities that capitalize on the collaborative imperative around with the University wide Institute structure is based. It also maintains and enrichens the portfolio of specialist and specialized skills offered by the department to students across its varied fields of study and is committed to developing both critical and creative thinking that is reflexive and outward-facing and engages with the creative arts within a scholarly, creative context.

Assessment Strategies and Methods
The scheme engages with the departmental commitment to a wider range of assessment methods and strategies that facilitates student engagement and opportunity to its maximum potential. There will be traditional essay based assessments as well as oral and written pitches, presentations and portfolio and there will be a consistent emphasis on editing and improving work through many drafts and iterations.

10.2.1 Intellectual Skills


By the end of their programme, all students are expected to be able to demonstrate:

B1 The ability to identify, describe, interpret and critically interrogate a range of creative writing practices in the field of drama, film and television and radio

B2 The ability to contextualize, interpret and apply different historical and contemporary practice in the field of creative writing in theatre, film and television and radio

B3 the ability to analyse and identify different aspects of and stages in the compilation of a piece of creative writing in any of the relevant subject areas

B4 The ability to demonstrate an understanding of the impact of audiences on cultural and creative outputs

B5 The ability to sustain intellectual argument in both oral and written forms through written, mediated or live presentation, applying the most effective communication strategies

Learning and Teaching

The writing process is simultaneously one of creating and reading a text. Creative Writing students are required to read a wide range of texts: canonical works, the work of their peers, and, crucially, their own work. This scheme is characterised and enriched by the inclusion of creative practitioners, scholars and industry professionals. Alongside the direct artistic and professional requirements of the subject, lecturers will engage with the relationship between writing and other creative arts, theories of literary production, writing and society, writing and culture or writing and well-being. This scheme will have a distinctive focus on writing across a wide range of inter-connected creative media.

Assessment Strategies and Methods

Ongoing assessment is a central function of the iterative nature of the workshop process, which embraces both tutor feedback and peer assessment, as well as a growing ability to self-critique. Ongoing assessment will be delivered in formal feedback tutorials and in discussion of revisions and re-drafting tasks. Creative Writing is characterised by its high level of feedback through workshops and individual attention, in written and in oral forms. There is a recognition that assessment is part of the learning process and that feedback is given regularly in order to further the student's development.

10.2.2 Professional practical skills / Discipline Specific Skills

By the end of their programme, all students are expected to be able to:

C1 read as a writer - with an ability to analyse texts, performances and broadcasts, and respond to the affective power of language, using appropriate approaches, terminology and creative strategies

C2 communicate orally and through the written word concrete ideas and abstract concepts

C3 produce clear, accurate, artistically coherent and technically sophisticated written work, which articulates a combination of research and creative ideas

C4 view themselves as practitioners and reflect critically on their own creative writing practice

C5 use the views of others in the development and enhancement of practice; formulate considered practical responses to the critical judgements of others, while developing a generous yet rigorous critical scrutiny in peer review and workshop activities

Learning and Teaching

Students will develop a mature and nuanced aesthetic sensibility and sense of intellectual inquiry and employ an imaginative and divergent mode of thinking which is integral to identifying and solving problems, to the making of critical and reflective judgements, to the generation of alternatives and new ideas, and to engaging with broader issues of value in relation to their own work and the work of others.

Assessment Strategies and Methods

The scheme engages with the departmental commitment to a wider range of assessment methods and strategies that facilitates student engagement and opportunity to its maximum potential. There will be traditional essay based assessments as well as oral and written pitches, presentations and portfolio and there will be a consistent emphasis on editing and improving work through many drafts and iterations.