Creative writing in English
- Credits: 4
- Ending: Examination
- Range: 2C
- Semester: summer
- Year: 1
- Faculty of Applied Languages
Teachers
Included in study programs
Teaching results
Teaching results:
Knowledge:
Students gain basic knowledge about conditions of work in media and editorial practice, about the necessity of protection of intellectual property and copyright and will gain an overview of issues and application problems of concluding a contract for work and a license agreement. By completing this course, they will understand the creative principles of text creation and know how to apply the acquired knowledge in their own creative activity and compose texts in various literary and non-literary genres.
Competence:
- developing and deepening the student's language and text-creating competence. During the semester, students practise different writing techniques and techniques encouraging creativity and individual style.
- analysing texts, identification and elimination of formal and stylistic mistakes.
Skills:
- acquiring practical skills by means of simulating conditions in editorial practice,
- writing texts of different genres,
- application of authors’ strategies in order to fulfil the communicative function of the text with respect to different target groups of readers.
Indicative content
- Creativity and integration as prerequisites for creative activity
- Theory and practice of composing texts in different literary and non-literary genres
- Methods of journalistic work
- Commercialization of media - current challenges
- Intellectual property, copyright protection, license agreement, contract for work
- Editor - proofreader - redactor - requirements and competences
Support literature
Required:
1. Bell, J., Magrs, P. The Creative Writing Coursebook. London: Pan Macmillan, 2019.
2. Green, S., Lidinski, A. From Inquiry to Academic Writing. A Text and Reader. New York: Macmillan Learning, 2021.
3. King, S. On Writing. A Memoir Of The Craft. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 2012.
4. Eco, U. Confessions of a young novelist. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011.
5. Lodge, D. Art of Fiction. New York: Vintage Books, 2011.
Optional:
1. Haugová, M. Písať ako dýchať. Bratislava: Literárne informačné centrum, 2014.
2. Fišer, Z. a kol. Tvůrčí psaní v literární výchově jako nástroj poznávání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012.
3. Harper, G. a kol. (eds.): New Writing. The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing, Taylor & Francis online.
Requirements to complete the course
Interim evaluation: 40%
Final evaluation: 60%
Student workload
Total study load (in hours):
Full-time study: 104 hours
26 hours of seminars
48 hours of preparation for the seminars and for the interim evaluation
30 hours of preparation for the exam
Language whose command is required to complete the course
English
Date of approval: 09.02.2023
Date of the latest change: 16.05.2022