Creative writing: an introduction to travel writing offered by Cambridge University
- Public University
- 1 Campus
- Estd. 1209
Creative writing: an introduction to travel writing at Cambridge University Overview
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
Creative writing: an introduction to travel writing at Cambridge University Course details
- For adult learners who want to advance their personal or professional development
- 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
- 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
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