DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND LETTERS

UNIVERSITY OF THE PHILIPPINES

COURSE NUMBER               CREATIVE WRITING 10

COURSE TITLE                     Creative Writing for Beginners

COURSE DESCRIPTION      A workshop exploring the potentials of creative writing as expression, as discipline and as a way of thinking about the society in which we live

CREDIT                                  3.0 units

COURSE OUTLINE

I.          Introduction (2 weeks)

Lecture/discussion on “creative writing” or “imaginative writing” and how it differs from other types of writing

II.         Getting Ready to Write (4 weeks)

            Short preliminary activities designed to stimulate the students’ imagination, preparatory to actual writing

III.       Reading as Writers (4 weeks)

Discussion of selected texts (prose and poetry) as examples of the different types of writing which students will do.

IV.       Workshops (6 weeks)

Short exercises in different types of writing, to be discussed in workshops, and revised under the instructor’s direction. Workshops engage students in an examination and assessment of their work through comments and suggestions given by every member of the class.

            A.  Expository writing

            B.  Descriptive writing

            C.  Narrative writing

V.        Wrap-up

Course Requirements

·        At least ten short writing assignments

·        Participation in workshops