University of St Andrews

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 60

ECTS credits : 30

Level : SCQF level 11

Semester: 2

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

Planned timetable: To be arranged

Students will extend their knowledge of poetry and its creation into more technical aspects of writing than were covered in depth in EN5004 Writing Poetry 1; the module will include detailed critical analyses of poems, as well as ideas of poetic traditions, rhetorical figure, trope, structure and form.

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: 2 hour seminar and 2 hour practical class; 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