Course: Creative writing

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Course title Creative writing
Course code KBO/4129
Organizational form of instruction Lesson
Level of course Master
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 1
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Harák Ivo, PaedDr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Opening seminar, introduction of basic seminar tasks and problems to students, verifying of student´s motivation 2. Visual artefact as way to better-understanding a literary problem 3. Interpretation and meta-interpretation 4. Finishing of literary text as a way to better-understanding of author´s style 5. Working with rhythm in a literary text 6. Semantization of Grammar as one of the conditions of existence of literature 7. Finding words and finding our-selves 8. Literary piece as a connection between writer and reader 9. Why is a poem so great? 10. Poetically a human lives 11. Truth of a prose and Truth of a poem 12. Accuracy of associations 13. Beauty of diversity; Literature as a multiplication of opportunities of a human 14. Final seminar, evaluation of student´s work; giving credits

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
Seminar of creative writing will deal with analyses and interpretation and especially with producing of texts of poetry. Students will get basic theoretical knowledge of rhythm in poetry, metaphors and possibilities of poetical language. Through analyses of different epochs of historical progress of poetry and artistic movements, students will find out the amount of possibilities how we can use poetical language in a poem. These basic instructions will enable students to create their own texts of poetry, to evaluate the amount of their own talent, to improve their creative thinking and creative work with language.
Student gains the ability to adequately and creatively interpret foreign literary work (as a precursor to his own work), the ability to think creatively (and even non-literary problems); basics of poetic creativity. Students are able to analyze and interpret poetic text (using the prescribed terminology and recommended methods of research), adequately verbalize learned knowledge, create imitations of foreign artistic texts, as well as independently implement literary creativity in various prescribed genres.
Prerequisites
knowledge of the field on the level of GCSE exam knowledge of disciplines connected to the central domain of study knowledge of appropriate terminology

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
attendance activity presentation test
Recommended literature
  • Fišer, Z. Tvůrčí psaní. Brno: Paido, 2001.
  • Kolář, J. a kol. Jak se dělá báseň. Praha: Československý spisovatel, 1969.
  • Kupcová, H. a kol. Krok k autorské existenci. Praha: Literární akademie, 2003.
  • Osvaldová, B. a kol. Pokusy a dobrodružství. Poznámky k eseji. Praha: Karolinum, 2008.
  • Studený, J. Drama jazyka. Teorie a praxe tvůrčího psaní. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2004.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching of Czech Language and Literature for Secondary Schools (A14) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer
Faculty: Faculty of Education Study plan (Version): Teaching of Czech Language and Literature for the 2nd Stage of Primary Schools and for Secondary Schools (A14) Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care - Recommended year of study:-, Recommended semester: Summer