Students must develop and deliver a capstone portfolio of original creative writing, consisting of either 14,000-15,000 words of prose, 70-80 pages of drama or 20-25 pages of poetry. Over the course of four one-to-one meetings, students will work a supervisor who is an expert in their field. Part of the portfolio may be work that students have submitted in the Workshop modules, but this will be expected to be revised in response feedback. As the module requires students to undertake a large project over a number of months and to produce, independently, a coherent body of work of significant length, it provides an excellent grounding in many key professional skills.

(LO1) Students will be able to demonstrate an advanced compositional techniques and methods and a sophisticated awareness of the range of options available to them as writers.

(LO2) Students will be able to work with independence to produce original creative writing.

(LO3) Students will be able to work with a supervisor to identify as well as autonomously plan and implement an independent, dissertation-length creative project.

(LO4) Students will be able to demonstrate a sophisticated awareness of current trends and new opportunities within the field of creative writing, and to respond to these with their own original work.

(S1) Students will gain advanced compositional skills in creative writing.

(S2) Students will develop resilience and independence in the production of their own creative writing.

(S3) Students will gain the ability to use IT and other relevant tools to present written work to a professional standard.

(S4) Students will gain organisation skills in managing time and workloads, and in meeting deadlines.

(S5) Students will gain confidence in independently producing a substantial work creative writing.

(S6) Students will gain advanced communication, interpersonal and communication skills.

As this is a piece of individual work, there is no fixed syllabus, but the range and variety of work covered is normally agreed in consultation with supervisor.

Four individual consultation sessions with designated supervisor through the course of the module.

The majority of teaching will be delivered face to face on campus. Online delivery will be used to complement the on campus delivery and where technology affords a better learning experience.