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Creative writing: an introduction to travel writing 

Creative writing: an introduction to travel writing
 at 
Cambridge University 
Overview

Able to convey People and Place and understanding of travel writing as a form/genre

Duration

7 weeks

Total fee

31,700

Mode of learning

Online

Course Level

UG Certificate

Creative writing: an introduction to travel writing
 at 
Cambridge University 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of completion from Cambridge University
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Creative writing: an introduction to travel writing
 at 
Cambridge University 
Course details

Who should do this course?
  • For adult learners who want to advance their personal or professional development
What are the course deliverables?
  • Introduce students to travel literature -books and essays rather than journalism
  • Familiarise them with the skills and practices of travel literature
  • Encourage and develop students-own skills as travel writers
More about this course
  • This course will introduce you to the skills and concepts needed to turn your travel experiences into travel features as published in many UK newspapers and magazines, with the focus on practical writing exercises and discussion of your own work
  • Given the nature of creative writing, it is important that students' use of English is sufficiently fluent to be able to understand in English nuances of meaning and have a familiarity with the structure and grammar of English
  • The course will familiarise students with a wide range of travel books selected to illustrate the substance, diversity and flexibility of this creative genre

Creative writing: an introduction to travel writing
 at 
Cambridge University 
Curriculum

Week 1

Understood, by reference to published examples, what their own travel book, however formative, might constitute, in terms of the proposed journey and its underlying subject or preoccupation

Week 2

Gained a sense of the importance of their opening paragraphs

Begun to think about their own place in the story they mean to tell

Week 3

A better sense of the qualities they need to prioritise or develop as travel writers

Learned something of the degree to which these personal qualities might be 'on show-in their narratives and of the dangers inherent in self-portrayal

Week 4

Begun to learn how to evoke landscapes and populate them

Learned how to deploy dialogue and description

Week 5

A good sense of how accomplished travel writers successfully present their travel experiences; what works and what doesn't from both the writer's and his/her readers-perspectives

Understood what obligations, if any, the travel writer has to tell the truth, however that is defined

Week 6

Assessment of student learning

Assessment of student satisfaction

Encouragement of further study

Creative writing: an introduction to travel writing
 at 
Cambridge University 
Entry Requirements

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Creative writing: an introduction to travel writing
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Contact Information

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Cambridge ( Cambridgeshire)

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