Recognise and appreciate the varying effects of different poetic forms of expression;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

N/A

Methods of Assessment

Formative and summative written work, thereby testing students' ability to engage with and critique existing criticism and scholarship while developing and defending their own ideas and judgements of the texts or topics in question.

All modules culminate in assessed exercises and the MA culminates in a final dissertation/portfolio. Students are required to meet fixed deadlines for the submission of work, thereby emphasising the importance of objective-setting, prioritisation and time-management.

Researching and writing final dissertation/drafting final portfolio of poems for assessment.

Think independently, analytically, synthetically, and in an organised fashion;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Skills are nurtured through class debate and discussion, through the drafting of creative work, and through the practice of writing.
Workshop sessions in a range of poetic forms encourage students to respond to other writers’ work, and to take on board constructive criticism of their own writing.

Class discussion, based on student presentations and directed by staff, thereby allowing students to test the utility of varying approaches and contexts and confidently to define the ways in which they can most effectively participate in critical debates.

Library work, and the use of QConnect and other on-line resources, will ensure that students have a rich source of different theoretical and scholarly frameworks to draw upon.

Methods of Assessment

Formative and summative written work, thereby testing students' ability to engage with and critique existing criticism and scholarship while developing and defending their own ideas and judgements of the texts or topics in question.

All modules culminate in assessed exercises and the MA culminates in a final dissertation/portfolio. Students are required to meet fixed deadlines for the submission of work, thereby emphasising the importance of objective-setting, prioritisation and time-management.

Researching and writing final dissertation/drafting final portfolio of poems for assessment.

Work autonomously, manifested in self-direction, objective-setting, prioritising and time-management;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Skills are nurtured through class debate and discussion, through the drafting of creative work, and through the practice of writing.
Workshop sessions in a range of poetic forms encourage students to respond to other writers’ work, and to take on board constructive criticism of their own writing.

Class discussion, based on student presentations and directed by staff, thereby allowing students to test the utility of varying approaches and contexts and confidently to define the ways in which they can most effectively participate in critical debates.

Library work, and the use of QConnect and other on-line resources, will ensure that students have a rich source of different theoretical and scholarly frameworks to draw upon.

Methods of Assessment

Formative and summative written work, thereby testing students' ability to engage with and critique existing criticism and scholarship while developing and defending their own ideas and judgements of the texts or topics in question.

All modules culminate in assessed exercises and the MA culminates in a final dissertation/portfolio. Students are required to meet fixed deadlines for the submission of work, thereby emphasising the importance of objective-setting, prioritisation and time-management.

Researching and writing final dissertation/drafting final portfolio of poems for assessment.

Critically analyse and assess their own performance, and that of others, in the context of scholarly endeavour;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Skills are nurtured through class debate and discussion, through the drafting of creative work, and through the practice of writing.
Workshop sessions in a range of poetic forms encourage students to respond to other writers’ work, and to take on board constructive criticism of their own writing.

Class discussion, based on student presentations and directed by staff, thereby allowing students to test the utility of varying approaches and contexts and confidently to define the ways in which they can most effectively participate in critical debates.

Library work, and the use of QConnect and other on-line resources, will ensure that students have a rich source of different theoretical and scholarly frameworks to draw upon.

Methods of Assessment

Formative and summative written work, thereby testing students' ability to engage with and critique existing criticism and scholarship while developing and defending their own ideas and judgements of the texts or topics in question.

All modules culminate in assessed exercises and the MA culminates in a final dissertation/portfolio. Students are required to meet fixed deadlines for the submission of work, thereby emphasising the importance of objective-setting, prioritisation and time-management.

Researching and writing final dissertation/drafting final portfolio of poems for assessment.

Summarise and synthesise theoretical and experiential learning, drawing on a range of evidence and perspectives;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Skills are nurtured through class debate and discussion, through the drafting of creative work, and through the practice of writing.
Workshop sessions in a range of poetic forms encourage students to respond to other writers’ work, and to take on board constructive criticism of their own writing.

Class discussion, based on student presentations and directed by staff, thereby allowing students to test the utility of varying approaches and contexts and confidently to define the ways in which they can most effectively participate in critical debates.

Library work, and the use of QConnect and other on-line resources, will ensure that students have a rich source of different theoretical and scholarly frameworks to draw upon.

Methods of Assessment

Formative and summative written work, thereby testing students' ability to engage with and critique existing criticism and scholarship while developing and defending their own ideas and judgements of the texts or topics in question.

All modules culminate in assessed exercises and the MA culminates in a final dissertation/portfolio. Students are required to meet fixed deadlines for the submission of work, thereby emphasising the importance of objective-setting, prioritisation and time-management.

Researching and writing final dissertation/drafting final portfolio of poems for assessment.

Analyse and interpret material with an awareness of both historical contexts and appropriate technical and/or critical approaches;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Skills are nurtured through class debate and discussion, through the drafting of creative work, and through the practice of writing.
Workshop sessions in a range of poetic forms encourage students to respond to other writers’ work, and to take on board constructive criticism of their own writing.

Class discussion, based on student presentations and directed by staff, thereby allowing students to test the utility of varying approaches and contexts and confidently to define the ways in which they can most effectively participate in critical debates.

Library work, and the use of QConnect and other on-line resources, will ensure that students have a rich source of different theoretical and scholarly frameworks to draw upon.

Methods of Assessment

Formative and summative written work, thereby testing students' ability to engage with and critique existing criticism and scholarship while developing and defending their own ideas and judgements of the texts or topics in question.

All modules culminate in assessed exercises and the MA culminates in a final dissertation/portfolio. Students are required to meet fixed deadlines for the submission of work, thereby emphasising the importance of objective-setting, prioritisation and time-management.

Researching and writing final dissertation/drafting final portfolio of poems for assessment.

Differentiate between and critique different ideological and theoretical positions;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Skills are nurtured through class debate and discussion, through the drafting of creative work, and through the practice of writing.
Workshop sessions in a range of poetic forms encourage students to respond to other writers’ work, and to take on board constructive criticism of their own writing.

Class discussion, based on student presentations and directed by staff, thereby allowing students to test the utility of varying approaches and contexts and confidently to define the ways in which they can most effectively participate in critical debates.

Library work, and the use of QConnect and other on-line resources, will ensure that students have a rich source of different theoretical and scholarly frameworks to draw upon.

Methods of Assessment

Formative and summative written work, thereby testing students' ability to engage with and critique existing criticism and scholarship while developing and defending their own ideas and judgements of the texts or topics in question.

All modules culminate in assessed exercises and the MA culminates in a final dissertation. Students are required to meet fixed deadlines for the submission of work, thereby emphasising the importance of objective-setting, prioritisation and time-management.

Researching and writing final dissertation/drafting final portfolio of poems for assessment.

Identify appropriate and practicable areas for further work and to formulate suitable written responses.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Skills are nurtured through class debate and discussion, through the drafting of creative work, and through the practice of writing.
Workshop sessions in a range of poetic forms encourage students to respond to other writers’ work, and to take on board constructive criticism of their own writing.

Class discussion, based on student presentations and directed by staff, thereby allowing students to test the utility of varying approaches and contexts and confidently to define the ways in which they can most effectively participate in critical debates.

Library work, and the use of QConnect and other on-line resources, will ensure that students have a rich source of different theoretical and scholarly frameworks to draw upon.

Methods of Assessment

Formative and summative written work, thereby testing students' ability to engage with and critique existing criticism and scholarship while developing and defending their own ideas and judgements of the texts or topics in question.

All modules culminate in assessed exercises and the MA culminates in a final dissertation. Students are required to meet fixed deadlines for the submission of work, thereby emphasising the importance of objective-setting, prioritisation and time-management.

Researching and writing final dissertation/drafting final portfolio of poems for assessment.

Identify and use appropriate resources;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Library work, and the use of QConnect and other on-line resources, will ensure that students have a rich source of different theoretical and scholarly frameworks to draw upon.

Methods of Assessment

Student-devised essays.

Read complex and demanding poems in a range of styles and genres;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Combination of core modules and elective options, supported by training in the practice of creative as well as critical writing.

Workshops and seminars, in which the emphasis is on student-led learning, thus developing an engaged understanding of key issues.

Student presentations, as an essential component of seminars, enhance oral skills and develop the ability to engage effectively with critical debate.

One-to-one consultation serves as a forum tailored to individual needs in which students can develop their awareness of appropriate areas of study and research.

Seminars in research methods which provide essential information about access to resources, and also, through group exercises, provide the opportunity to apply the knowledge gained.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Assessed essays are based on student-devised topics which enable students to hone and demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for written work.

Creative poetry projects require students to write in set forms and in response to texts, as well as developing their own portfolio. Critical essay require students to be able to devise and support an a argument on modern poetry/poetic form and to research a critical project in the 15,000 word dissertation.

Discuss the literary-critical and theoretical debates to do with poetry in the period;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Combination of core modules and elective options, supported by Research Methods training in the practice of creative as well as critical writing.

Seminars, in which the emphasis is on student-led learning, thus developing an engaged understanding of key issues.

Student presentations, as an essential component of seminars, enhance oral skills and develop the ability to engage effectively with critical debate.

One-to-one consultation serves as a forum tailored to individual needs in which students can develop their awareness of appropriate areas of study and research.

Seminars in research methods which provide essential information about access to resources, and also, through group exercises, provide the opportunity to apply the knowledge gained.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Assessed essays are based on student-devised topics which enable students to hone and demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for written work.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Assess the interaction between politics and aesthetics in the particular case of poetry;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Combination of core modules and elective options, supported by Research Methods training in the practice of creative as well as critical writing.

Seminars, in which the emphasis is on student-led learning, thus developing an engaged understanding of key issues.

Student presentations, as an essential component of seminars, enhance oral skills and develop the ability to engage effectively with critical debate.

One-to-one consultation serves as a forum tailored to individual needs in which students can develop their awareness of appropriate areas of study and research.

Seminars in research methods which provide essential information about access to resources, and also, through group exercises, provide the opportunity to apply the knowledge gained.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Assessed essays are based on student-devised topics which enable students to hone and demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for written work.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Identify rhetorical, formal and aesthetic strategies of different types of poetry;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Combination of core modules and elective options, supported by Research Methods training in the practice of creative as well as critical writing.

Seminars, in which the emphasis is on student-led learning, thus developing an engaged understanding of key issues.

Student presentations, as an essential component of seminars, enhance oral skills and develop the ability to engage effectively with critical debate.

One-to-one consultation serves as a forum tailored to individual needs in which students can develop their awareness of appropriate areas of study and research.

Seminars in research methods which provide essential information about access to resources, and also, through group exercises, provide the opportunity to apply the knowledge gained.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Assessed essays are based on student-devised topics which enable students to hone and demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for written work.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Articulate the ways in which concepts and figurings of gender roles and attributes may modify poetry, both formally and in terms of its subject-matter;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Combination of core modules and elective options, supported by Research Methods training in the practice of creative as well as critical writing.

Seminars, in which the emphasis is on student-led learning, thus developing an engaged understanding of key issues.

Student presentations, as an essential component of seminars, enhance oral skills and develop the ability to engage effectively with critical debate.

One-to-one consultation serves as a forum tailored to individual needs in which students can develop their awareness of appropriate areas of study and research.

Seminars in research methods which provide essential information about access to resources, and also, through group exercises, provide the opportunity to apply the knowledge gained.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Assessed essays are based on student-devised topics which enable students to hone and demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for written work.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Understand the relationship between poetry and history, and more particularly that which obtains between poetic form and its historical context in the widest sense;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Combination of core modules and elective options, supported by Research Methods training in the practice of creative as well as critical writing.

Seminars, in which the emphasis is on student-led learning, thus developing an engaged understanding of key issues.

Student presentations, as an essential component of seminars, enhance oral skills and develop the ability to engage effectively with critical debate.

One-to-one consultation serves as a forum tailored to individual needs in which students can develop their awareness of appropriate areas of study and research.

Seminars in research methods which provide essential information about access to resources, and also, through group exercises, provide the opportunity to apply the knowledge gained.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Assessed essays are based on student-devised topics which enable students to hone and demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for written work.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Demonstrate the detail and complexity of a wide range of poetry written in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Combination of core modules and elective options, supported by Research Methods training in the practice of creative as well as critical writing.

Seminars, in which the emphasis is on student-led learning, thus developing an engaged understanding of key issues.

Student presentations, as an essential component of seminars, enhance oral skills and develop the ability to engage effectively with critical debate.

One-to-one consultation serves as a forum tailored to individual needs in which students can develop their awareness of appropriate areas of study and research.

Seminars in research methods which provide essential information about access to resources, and also, through group exercises, provide the opportunity to apply the knowledge gained.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Assessed essays are based on student-devised topics which enable students to hone and demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for written work.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Discuss the relationship of poetry to different concepts of nationhood and tradition, including problematisation of those concepts;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Combination of core modules and elective options, supported by Research Methods training in the practice of creative as well as critical writing.

Seminars, in which the emphasis is on student-led learning, thus developing an engaged understanding of key issues.

Student presentations, as an essential component of seminars, enhance oral skills and develop the ability to engage effectively with critical debate.

One-to-one consultation serves as a forum tailored to individual needs in which students can develop their awareness of appropriate areas of study and research.

Seminars in research methods which provide essential information about access to resources, and also, through group exercises, provide the opportunity to apply the knowledge gained.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Assessed essays are based on student-devised topics which enable students to hone and demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for written work.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Demonstrate how the production and transmission of texts influences issues of interpretation and intentionality;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Combination of core modules and elective options, supported by Research Methods training in the practice of creative as well as critical writing.

Seminars, in which the emphasis is on student-led learning, thus developing an engaged understanding of key issues.

Student presentations, as an essential component of seminars, enhance oral skills and develop the ability to engage effectively with critical debate.

One-to-one consultation serves as a forum tailored to individual needs in which students can develop their awareness of appropriate areas of study and research.

Seminars in research methods which provide essential information about access to resources, and also, through group exercises, provide the opportunity to apply the knowledge gained.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Assessed essays are based on student-devised topics which enable students to hone and demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for written work.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Know current practices for preparing creative writing for agents, editors, publishers, etc;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Poetry seminars in poetic form, editing, and study of individual published collections as well as dedicated workshop sessions for the discussion of students’ own work.

Methods of Assessment

Exercises in aspects of poetic craft to enable students to put theory into practice.

Have a greater understanding of creative writing in general and their own writing in particular.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Poetry seminars in poetic form, editing, and study of individual published collections as well as dedicated workshop sessions for the discussion of students’ own work.

Methods of Assessment

Exercises in aspects of poetic craft to enable students to put theory into practice.

Deliver a complex research project.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Library work, and the use of QConnect and other on-line resources, will ensure that students have a rich source of different theoretical and scholarly frameworks to draw upon.

Methods of Assessment

Dissertation preparation and completion.

Read and respond to the work of other writers with a greater understanding of the works’ formal and structural properties;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Seminars that attend to the literary qualities of poems and to the relevant history, and are informed by literary-critical perspectives, including those arising in the period.

Presentations, essays and a dissertation that respect standard scholarly norms, and are designed to deploy skills in close reading, a knowledge of the relevant historical context, and an understanding of critical thought.

Subject-specific research methods training in the practice and understanding of poetry.

Methods of Assessment

Oral feedback on the work of other writers.

Assessed essays are based on student-devised topics which enable students to hone and demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for written work.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Appreciate and analyse a range of features of poetry, including imagery, symbolism, metre, rhythm, rhyme, verbal music in general, and stanzaic form;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Seminars that attend to the literary qualities of poems and to the relevant history, and are informed by literary-critical perspectives, including those arising in the period.

Presentations, essays and a dissertation that respect standard scholarly norms, and are designed to deploy skills in close reading, a knowledge of the relevant historical context, and an understanding of critical thought.

Subject-specific research methods training in the practice and understanding of poetry.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Assessed essays are based on student-devised topics which enable students to hone and demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for written work.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Apply the insights gained from literary criticism and theory in discussion of poetry;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Seminars that attend to the literary qualities of poems and to the relevant history, and are informed by literary-critical perspectives, including those arising in the period.

Presentations, essays and a dissertation that respect standard scholarly norms, and are designed to deploy skills in close reading, a knowledge of the relevant historical context, and an understanding of critical thought.

Subject-specific research methods training in the practice and understanding of poetry.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Assessed essays are based on student-devised topics which enable students to hone and demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for written work.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Analyse poetic texts with a sophisticated awareness of the ways in which their formal and generic properties interact with particular cultural and historical contexts;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Seminars that attend to the literary qualities of poems and to the relevant history, and are informed by literary-critical perspectives, including those arising in the period.

Presentations, essays and a dissertation that respect standard scholarly norms, and are designed to deploy skills in close reading, a knowledge of the relevant historical context, and an understanding of critical thought.

Subject-specific research methods training in the practice and understanding of poetry.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Assessed essays are based on student-devised topics which enable students to hone and demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for written work.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Draw on, engage with, and formulate a position in relation to, different critical perspectives on poetry;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Seminars that attend to the literary qualities of poems and to the relevant history, and are informed by literary-critical perspectives, including those arising in the period.

Presentations, essays and a dissertation that respect standard scholarly norms, and are designed to deploy skills in close reading, a knowledge of the relevant historical context, and an understanding of critical thought.

Subject-specific research methods training in the practice and understanding of poetry.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Assessed essays are based on student-devised topics which enable students to hone and demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for written work.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Write lucid, well-organised and scholarly essays which integrate the close reading of poetry with an understanding of its wider contexts, and which offer convincing and sustained arguments on key issues in its interpretation;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Seminars that attend to the literary qualities of poems and to the relevant history, and are informed by literary-critical perspectives, including those arising in the period.

Presentations, essays and a dissertation that respect standard scholarly norms, and are designed to deploy skills in close reading, a knowledge of the relevant historical context, and an understanding of critical thought.

Subject-specific research methods training in the practice and understanding of poetry.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Assessed essays are based on student-devised topics which enable students to hone and demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for written work.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Handle a range of critical and primary sources in the context of formulating an independent argument;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Library work, and the use of QConnect and other on-line resources, will ensure that students have a rich source of different theoretical and scholarly frameworks to draw upon.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Assessed essays are based on student-devised topics which enable students to hone and demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for written work.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Utilise a range of research tools, resources, and methodologies, and to understand and put into practice the standard protocols of referencing in the advanced literary essay;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Library work, and the use of QConnect and other on-line resources, will ensure that students have a rich source of different theoretical and scholarly frameworks to draw upon.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Assessed essays are based on student-devised topics which enable students to hone and demonstrate understanding by identifying suitable and practicable areas for written work.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Offer lucid, well-organised and scholarly oral presentations on poetry;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Class presentation.

Methods of Assessment

Class presentation.

Present their own work in accordance with established norms of presentation of creative writing for agents, editors, publishers, theatre companies, broadcasters etc.

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Creative writing workshops and the drafting processes involved in preparing work for assessment and particularly for the final dissertation project.

Methods of Assessment

Assessed exercises and the dissertation.

Apply what they have learnt of the craft of writing – e.g. structure, characterisation, voice - and apply it to their own work, which should emerge as more achieved and distinctive as a result;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Creative writing workshops and the drafting processes involved in preparing work for assessment and particularly for the final dissertation project.
Workshops, seminar presentations, student interaction and discussion with individual staff hone communication and rhetorical skills and offer the opportunity to learn from constructively critical feedback.

Essays and the dissertation require students to be able to seek out suitable resources and to obtain and collate appropriate information at ta sophisticated level. Research methods training is thus put into practice at an early stage and developed throughout the degree.

Methods of Assessment

Assessed exercises and the dissertation.

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by a 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Construct complex arguments that are lucid and well-organised and draw on a range of appropriate types of evidence, from the large to the small scale, and communicate these effectively in writing;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Workshops, seminar presentations, student interaction and discussion with individual staff hone communication and rhetorical skills and offer the opportunity to learn from constructively critical feedback.

Essays and the dissertation require students to be able to seek out suitable resources and to obtain and collate appropriate information at a sophisticated level. Research methods training is thus put into practice at an early stage and developed throughout the degree.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Develop efficient time-management skills, including the ability to work under time pressure;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Workshops, seminar presentations, student interaction and discussion with individual staff hone communication and rhetorical skills and offer the opportunity to learn from constructively critical feedback.

Essays and the dissertation require students to be able to seek out suitable resources and to obtain and collate appropriate information at a sophisticated level. Research methods training is thus put into practice at an early stage and developed throughout the degree.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Offer and receive constructive criticism of their own and others’ work, and to respond positively and productively to feedback on their own work;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Workshops, seminar presentations, student interaction and discussion with individual staff hone communication and rhetorical skills and offer the opportunity to learn from constructively critical feedback.

Essays and the dissertation require students to be able to seek out suitable resources and to obtain and collate appropriate information at a sophisticated level. Research methods training is thus put into practice at an early stage and developed throughout the degree.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Think creatively and maturely in diverse intellectual situations;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Workshops, seminar presentations, student interaction and discussion with individual staff hone communication and rhetorical skills and offer the opportunity to learn from constructively critical feedback.

Essays and the dissertation require students to be able to seek out suitable resources and to obtain and collate appropriate information at a sophisticated level. Research methods training is thus put into practice at an early stage and developed throughout the degree.

Methods of Assessment

Practical work and student-centred learning encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form.

Student-devised 4500-word essays or poems with critical commentary in a number of modules require students to be able to identify and carry out a task within a defined time frame; the discipline and motivation developed in this way is then further tested by the 15,000-word dissertation or portfolio.

Access electronic databases and other information sources;

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Library work, and the use of QConnect and other on-line resources, will ensure that students have a rich source of different theoretical and scholarly frameworks to draw upon.

Methods of Assessment

Student-devised essays.

Display effective oral and written communication skills

Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies

Skills are nurtured through class debate and discussion, through the drafting of creative work and through critical presentations. Workshops sessions and seminars encourage students to respond to other writer's work and to take on board constructive criticism of their own writing.

Methods of Assessment

All modules culminate in assessed work (either creative or critical) and the MA culminates in a final dissertation or portfolio. Students are required to meet fixed deadlines for the submission of work, thereby emphasising the importance of objective setting, prioritisation and time management.