This continuation course in creative writing in English deepens and focuses the student’s awareness of imaginative writing craft in a single genre. It centers on the practice of intermediate technical and formal aspects of imaginative writing along with their theoretical and historical foundations. The course aims to produce a writing student who can balance practice and theory, creative and critical thinking, as well as the academic and the vocational. While developing the craft of writing, the student acquires numerous transferable skills useful in various professions where written communication and creative content are key.
General entry requirements + English 6
Prerequisite courses for this course are one of the following Creative Writing I (passed): EN212E, EN212A, EN203E or EN215A.
Upper secondary grades 34%, University credits completed 32%, Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (SweSAT) 34%
Stephen King - On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft. ISBN: 0-684-85352-3
Granta Magazine Granta 153: Second Nature. ISBN: 9781783786398
Jenny Erpenbeck - Visitations. ISBN: 081121835X
John Berger - The Red Tenda of Bologna. ISBN: 0241339014
Quercus (publisher) - Poems for a World Gone to Sh*t. ISBN: 1787471039
Malmö University provides students who participate in, or who have completed a course, with the opportunity to express their opinions and describe their experiences of the course by completing a course evaluation administered by the University. The University will compile and summarise the results of course evaluations. The University will also inform participants of the results and any decisions relating to measures taken in response to the course evaluations. The results will be made available to the students (HF 1:14).
