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Creative Writing

Course learning outcomes

On successful completion of the program, students will be able to:

No. Course learning outcome
1 Demonstrate an understanding of recent disciplinary or practice developments, and apply principles and methods of practice-led or mixed-mode research to your creative writing practice and projects.
2 Reflect critically on your own and others' creative practice in relation to (inter)disciplinary skills and knowledge, and creatively implement such skills and knowledge in your own work.
3 Independently investigate, analyse and synthesise complex information and problems, and execute and incorporate different kinds of research for your creative practice and projects.
4 Describe and evaluate complex ideas from current debates in creative writing practice (poetics) and pedagogy, as well as relevant textual and critical theory and practice.
5 Demonstrate communication and technical research skills to justify and interpret your findings and conclusions to specialist and general audiences.
6 Design and implement sophisticated creative writing projects, and usefully evaluate, critique and refine your own and others' work through a collaborative workshop process.
7 Analyse, theorise and apply (inter)disciplinary developments that contribute to professional and ethical best practice and scholarship.
8 Create, design, develop and execute and independent capstone research-based dissertation project and/or piece of scholarship.