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Campus: Kensington Campus
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Career: Undergraduate
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Units of Credit: 6
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Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
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Enrolment Requirements:
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Prerequisite: 12 units of credit at the ENGL2000 level
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Excluded: ENGL2922, ENGL3751, GENT0205, GENT0212
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Description
Builds upon Creative Writing A by assisting students in the development of larger independent writing projects in a specific genre, which in any given year could be extended prose fiction; experimental writing and fictocriticism; poetry; or drama and screenwriting.
Learning Outcomes
Students should acquire a range of skills to enable them to:
- Develop, draft and complete an extended writing project
- Critically analyse the conventions of writing and how they operate in texts
- Identify and apply a range of literary techniques and strategies in relation to the genre being studied
- Recognise how language, in general, and literary language, in particular, is governed by historical, cultural and generic conventions
- Understand the skills of editing
- Improve their skills in class interaction and communication
- Expand their awareness and application of creative processes
- Increase their ability to critically appraise their own work and the work of others.
Assessment
- Mid-semester sample of writing - 30%
- Final portfolio of writing - 50%
- Participation - 20%
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