University of St Andrews

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 40

ECTS credits : 20

Level : SCQF level 11

Semester: 1

Availability restrictions: Available only to students on MLitt /MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry)

Planned timetable: To be arranged

The module considers a range of essential topics in poetry and its composition, including the creative process, sound and sentence, the poetic line, imagery, metaphor, metre and meaning.

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: 2 hour seminar and 2 hour practical class (x 10 weeks); tutorials by appointment

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews: Coursework = 100%


Re-assessment: One new submission equivalent in length and nature to the failed piece of coursework. The piece submitted for reassessment must be entirely new work.

Personnel

Module coordinator: Dr O R Hazzard
Module teaching staff: Team taught
Module coordinator email orh@st-andrews.ac.uk

Intended learning outcomes

• Demonstrate a wide-ranging knowledge of the techniques used in twentieth century and contemporary poetry from the UK, Ireland and USA, gained by close reading of selected poems;
• Put these techniques into practice, and so develop and strengthen their own work;
• Display proficiency in carrying out sustained pieces of literary research and critical writing;
• Work in groups, offer considered and considerate criticism of the work of others, and accept and utilise such criticism themselves;
• Demonstrate a sense of the roles, responsibilities, and opportunities available to writers in contemporary society.