Entry requirements

General entry requirements + English 6.

Prerequisite courses for this course are one of the following Creative Writing I (passed): EN212E, EN212A, EN203E or EN215A.

Progression level in relation to degree requirements

The course is not part of any main field of study but may be included in a general degree at undergraduate level.

Course contents

The course aims to produce a writing student who can balance practice and theory, creative and critical thinking, as well as the academic and the vocational.

Students will work across genres (fiction, poetry, literary non-fiction). The course concludes with the submission of a portfolio containing the student’s work for the term. The course recognizes that good reading is at the heart of good writing. Reading broadly in all genres is thus emphasized. Peer reviewing is at the heart of the course, and is also seen as a central element of the own creative process. The course also provides a brief introduction to the business of publishing.

Learning outcomes

After finishing the course, the student:

• understands more deeply the workings of a literary genres;
• is able to balance theory and practice within their writing;
• is able to use their knowledge of the basic practices involved in getting work published;
• can write creatively at a high beginning to intermediate level;
• can, with greater independence, edit their own writing and the writing of others;
• can revise and compile a meaningful portfolio of their own work and examine it self-critically

Learning activities

This course features:

• distance learning via an online learning platform
• formal, written peer reviews
• writing exercises
• reading

Assessment

The student is assessed based on the submission of a portfolio of texts written and revised over the course the semester.

Course literature

Stephen King - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. ISBN: 0-684-85352-3

Granta Magazine Granta 153: Second Nature. ISBN: ISBN: 9781909889361

Jenny Erpenbeck - Visitations. ISBN: 081121835X

John Berger - The Red Tenda of Bologna. ISBN: 0241339014

Quercus (publisher) - Poems for a World Gone to Sh*t. ISBN: 1787471039

Course evaluation

Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).

Interim rules

If a course is no longer offered, or has undergone significant changes, the students must be offered two opportunities for re-examination based on the syllabus that applied at the time of registration, for a period of one year after the changes have been implemented.

Additional information

This is the English version of a Swedish syllabus.

If a student has a Learning support decision, the examiner has the right to provide the student with an adapted test, or to allow the student to take the exam in a different format. The syllabus is a translation of a Swedish source text.