This module is designed to give you the opportunity to pursue substantial individual research resulting in a final, cumulative dissertation which examines a topic of your choice both creatively and critically. The remit of your creative project will be agreed in advance with your supervising tutor. You might choose between a collection of poems, long or short stories, a novel extract, a specific work of drama. You will have the option to continue and develop creative work begun in one of the Writers’ Room modules, though you can initiate a stand-alone project for this module.
You will be expected to provide several drafts of your creative work at various stages of its development. It will be possible for you to propose appropriate multi-media or cross-genre work to enable you to develop a sense of originality and individual purpose, and to respond to work in the professional field. However, you would normally be expected to work in fields related to one of the specialised areas taken at HE4 and HE5.
This will be accompanied by an essay of 3,000 words which critically examines a topic directly related to your creative work, in terms of creative action and/or contextual critical analysis.
- Teacher: Catriona Craig
- Teacher: Laurence Davey
- Teacher: Simon Holloway
- Teacher: Ed Jones
- Teacher: Jill Marsden
- Teacher: Valerie O'Riordan
- Teacher: Ben Wilkinson