CW918-20 Writing Wrongs Workshop
Introductory description
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Module aims
Students entering the course would be able to develop their intellectual grounding as well as their writing on injustice over the full year of the course, thereby equipping them to engage effectively with, and make significant contributions to, current debates on injustice and human rights in the public domain, through both traditional publishing channels and the electronic media.
Outline syllabus
This is an indicative module outline only to give an indication of the sort of topics that may be covered. Actual sessions held may differ.
Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: Writing truth
Javier Cercas, The Imposter (extracts: pp13-42 and 167-174)
Jenny Diski, Skating to Antarctica (pp1-38 and 85-103)
Week 3: Writing difference
Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump
Steve Silberman, Neuotribes
Stephen Kuusisto, Planet of the Blind
Week 4: Writing the suffering of others and oneself
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
Emmanuel Carrere, Lives Other Than My Own
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Wrestling with the Devil
Sonali Deraniyagala, The Wave
Week 5: Writing people
Oscar Lewis, Pedro Martinez
WG Sebold, The Emmigrants
Salena Godden, ‘Shade’ in Nikesh Shukla (ed), The Good Immigrant
Week 6: Reading Week
Week 7: Writing war
Martha Gelhorn, The Face of War
Helen Parr, Our Boys: the Story of a Paratrooper
Week 8: Writing for change
Arundhati Roy, The Algebra of Infinite Justice
Elizabeth Pisani, The Wisdom of Whores
Gary Younge, The Speech
Week 9: Writing the Future
Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction
Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Week 10 Final workshop; Overview
Learning outcomes
By the end of the module, students should be able to:
- To produce written work to an advanced literary standard
- To gain the ability to critically and comprehensively assess, analyse, and contextualise this work as well as the work of others, and through the independent exercise of the aforementioned integration of the creative and the critical, to gain the ability to engage effectively with, and make significant contributions to, current debates on injustice and human rights in the public domain, through both traditional publishing channels and the electronic media.
Indicative reading list
Indicative Reading List – to accompany mini lectures
Javier Cercas, The Imposter (extracts: pp13-42 and 167-174)
Jenny Diski, Skating to Antarctica (pp1-38 and 85-103)
Benjamin Zephaniah, My Life and Rhymes
Naoki Higashida, The Reason I Jump
Steve Silberman, Neuotribes
Stephen Kuusisto, Planet of the Blind
Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Famiily
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
Emmanuel Carrere, Lives Other Than My Own
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Wrestling with the Devil
Sonali Deraniyagala, The Wave
Hisham Matar, The Return
Martha Gelhorn, The Face of War
Helen Parr, Our Boys: the Story of a Paratrooper
Arundhati Roy, The Algebra of Infinite Justice
Elizabeth Pisani, The Wisdom of Whores
Gary Younge, The Speech
Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction
Amitav Ghosh, The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable
Subject specific skills
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Transferable skills
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Study time
| Type | Required |
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| Seminars | 9 sessions of 3 hours (14%) |
| Tutorials | 3 sessions of 1 hour (2%) |
| Private study | 170 hours (85%) |
| Total | 200 hours |
Private study description
Private study.
Costs
No further costs have been identified for this module.
You must pass all assessment components to pass the module.
Assessment group A
| Weighting | Study time | Eligible for self-certification | |
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Assessment component |
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| Assessed portfolio | 100% | Yes (extension) | |
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Creative work (80%) supported by a critical commentary (20%). |
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Reassessment component is the same |
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Feedback on assessment
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Pre-requisites
Designed to follow on from EN981, this module will accept other students making a compelling case.
Courses
Course availability information is based on the current academic year, so it may change.This module is Optional for:
- Year 2 of TCWA-Q3P7 MA in Writing
- Year 2 of TENA-Q3P7 MA in Writing