1. The aims of the module are: to give students an opportunity to think about how creative writing engages with a global society, social justice, political and environmental issues and human rights.

2.  To introduce and develop an awareness of the creative writing process, across poetry, prose, literary essays, journalist writing, reviews and other forms of online and printed writing.

3.  To develop writing skills in conjunction with an understanding of social activism.

4.  To introduce and develop an awareness of the function and importance of the drafting process.

5.  To foster independent reading of contemporary writing in a variety of genre and media.

(LO1) Students will have a knowledge and understanding of the range of approaches to writing and social activism.

(LO2) Students will have an ability to constructively evaluate their own writing and that of their peers.

(LO3) Students will have a familiarity of and an experimentation with a variety of literary techniques.

(LO4) Students will have a practical insight into the creation of texts that will feed into their understanding of contemporary social and political issues.

(LO5) Students will have an understanding through practical work of the range of options available to writers engaging with social activism.

(LO6) Students will have a familiarity and experimentation with a range of literary techniques and writing styles.

(LO7) Students will have an independent thinking around contemporary approaches to socially-engaged writing practice processes.

(S1) Research skills

(S2) Employability skills (journalistic writing)

(S3) Global citizenship

(S4) Creativity

Students will be introduced to a range of writers who creatively address socially-engaged practice, ranging from erasure poems to op-ed style journalism. Authors covered may include: Rebecca Solnit, Solmaz Sharif, Layli Long Soldier, Charles Reznikoff, Chinua Achebe, James Baldwin, Sara Ahmed, among others. Weekly seminars will give an ongoing theoretical and practical context for explorations of the craft and social activism. In workshops students will take part in writing exercises and games, as well as in other activities that will help development of the critical and editorial processes involved when writing creatively.

Teaching Method 1 - Online workshop
Description: Weekly seminars will give an on-going theoretical and practical context for explorations of the craft and social activism. Students will become familiar with a socially-engaged writing practice method as well as a key political or social topic (e.g. lyric essay and Black Lives Matter via Claudia Rankine's Citizen). These seminars will involve discussion.
Attendance Recorded: No

Teaching Method 2 - Face to Face tutorial
Description: In workshops students will take part in writing exercises and games, as well as in other activities that will help development of the critical and editorial processes involved when writing creatively. Work will be written as well as read aloud for oral and written feedback.
Attendance Recorded: Yes