Postgraduate Course: Elements of Fiction One (Online Learning) (ENLI11218)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | This course consists of monthly online seminars (webinars), online workshops (writing forums) and individual consultations. Webinars will focus on theoretical and reflective exploration of key topics and tailored writing assignments will be set. Tutor-hosted writing forums will take place three times per year. Each will last for twelve days. Students will present and critique work in progress by their peers. Students will also consult five times per annum with a writing tutor. At the end of the year, students will submit 10,000 words of prose fiction for assessment. |
| Course description |
1. The Hook and the Line: Openings
2. Sudden Illumination: Flash Fiction
3 Thinking Beyond the Frame: Aspects of the Short Story
4. People on the Page: Character
5. The Uses and Functions of Speech
6. Spirit of Place: Locality or Location?
7. Did it Really Happen? Autobiography to Fiction
8. Angles of Incidence: Point(s) of View
9. The Webs we Weave: Narrative Threads
10. Strata and Sub-strata: Image, Metaphor and Symbol
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Essential course texts |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 1,
Online Activities 105,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 25,
Formative Assessment Hours 8,
Summative Assessment Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
252 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
10,000 word portfolio (100%) |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Apply a range of methods for the development and structuring of a creative work
- Offer criticism to peers in a considered and constructive manner
- Process and apply constructive criticism from tutors and peers
- Apply acquired critical skills to their own creative output
- Broaden their understanding of the demands of writing fiction through reading, discussion and topic-based writing assignments
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Reading List
Bauer, Douglas, The Stuff of Fiction(available as e-book in library)
Brande, Dorothea, Becoming a Writer
Boylan, Clare(ed), The Agony and the Ego: The Art and Strategy of Fiction Writing Explained
Cox, Ailsa, Writing Short Stories
Gardner, John, The Art of Fiction: Notes on Craft for Young Writers Goldberg, Natalie, Writing Down The Bones: Freeing the Writer Within King, Stephen, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
Kundera, Milan, Testaments Betrayed
Morley, David, The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing(available as e-book)
Mullan, John, How Novels Work O¿Connor, Flannery, Mystery & Manners
Olmstead, Robert, Elements of the Writing Craft Prince, Gerard, Dictionary of Narratology
Prose, Francine, Reading Like a Writer
Shapard, Robert and Thomas, James (eds), New Sudden Fiction International
Wood, James, How Fiction Works
Woolf, Virginia and Woolf, Leonard, A Writer¿s Diary, Being extracts from the Diary of
Virginia Woolf |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Students who complete the course successfully will have attained a broadened awareness of stylistic possibilities in fiction. By practice they will have developed compositional skills in a way that complements more general English studies. They will have learned and established good, independent writing habits which can be maintained beyond the completion of the programme. They will have mastered the crucial distinction between critiquing work and critiquing its author, and be able to articulate and communicate acquired knowledge and skills to others. |
| Keywords | EoF1 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Dilys Rose
Tel:
Email: |
Course secretary | Miss Sarah Harvey
Tel: (0131 6)51 1822
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