Ysgrifennu Creadigol / Literature and Creative WritingYsgrifennu Creadigol / Literature and Creative WritingHL200W Writing as a Creative Process (2024/2025)DescriptionThis course will explore the creative process and will introduce students to techniques and exercises to help stimulate creativity.
HL201W Words That Run with Wolves; Writing for Children (2024/2025)DescriptionDelivery method: Online learning with tutor support. Welcome to the world of writing creatively for children of all ages. Words that run with Wolves can be studied as a stand-alone module, but it could also follow on from the introductory 5-credit online module: An Introduction to Writing for Children.
HL202W Writing Science-Fiction and Speculative FictionDescriptionDelivery method: Online learning with tutor support. Science fiction and Speculative (Counterfactual) fiction are two overlapping genres, which ask us to enter ‘other worlds, alternate worlds and societies. Ideas about the future; economic and social, developing science and technology, and the way humans organize themselves and behave, can be explored in imaginative and daring ways.
HL203W Writing Women: Feminism in Poetry and Prose | Part 2 (2024/2025)DescriptionDelivery method: Online learning with tutor support. An accompaniment to Writing Women Part 1, this module will continue to explore the various ways in which feminism can be translated to creative writing. To study Writing Women Part 2, students do not have to have studied Writing Women Part 1
HL204W Editing and Shaping your Work (2024/2025)DescriptionDelivery method: Online learning with tutor support. This skills-based module aims to equip you with the tools and strategies to edit and shape your work with a view to submitting for publication, self-publishing and/or entering competitions. You may also wish to revise and redraft your work for private use.
HL205W Introduction to Literature Studies (2024/2025)DescriptionDelivery method: Online learning with tutor support. Through an introduction to selected poetry, prose and drama texts, students will gain foundational knowledge of English literary studies. During the module, students will develop skills in close analysis and essay writing with a focus on writing with economy and precision.
HL206W Autobiographical Writing (2024/2025)DescriptionDelivery method: Online learning with tutor support and three optional face-to-face sessions at The White Lion (meeting room), Machynlleth. (27/01/2025, 17/02/2025, 17/03/25). Writing an autobiography involves more than reporting the facts of your life in chronological order. A good autobiography draws on the techniques of both fiction (vivid description, thinking in scenes, structuring a narrative) and non-fiction (research, analysis, making connections between an individual’s experience and the wider world) to produce a document of interest to readers
HL207W Introduction to Film Studies (2024/2025)DescriptionDelivery method: Online learning with tutor support. This module will provide an introduction to the reading of film, the history of the medium and the central theories of film criticism.
HL208W Gwibdaith Drwy Lenydddiaeth Gymraeg (2024/2025)DescriptionDull Cyflwyno: Sesiynau ar-lein wedi'u trefnu. Gwlad beirdd a chantorion’ medd yr anthem genedlaethol am Gymru, a thros gyfnod o ddeg wythnos, bydd y cwrs hwn yn rhoi cyflwyniad i rai o feirdd a llenorion Cymru.
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