Short Learning Programmes
Short Course in the Introduction to Creative Writing (72052)
Short Course in the Introduction to Creative Writing (72052)
Duration: Semester
Target group:
People with an interest in creative writing
Admission requirements:
Senior Certificate or an equivalent NQF level 4 qualification or equivalent experience
Registration periods:
1st semester: January/February
2nd semester: June/ July
Course leader details:
Mr. Douglas Mokoena
Lecturer (School of Arts)
Department of English Studies
Tel: 012ﾠ429 3679
E-mail: mokoeds@unisa.ac.za
Programme administrator:
Admin Officer
Unisa Centre for Lifelong Learning
360 Lillian Ngoyi Street, Pretoria Central
Solomon Mahlangu Building 2nd floor
Tel: 012 352 4288
Email address: UCL@unisa.ac.za
Application Link: www.unisa.ac.za/applyslp
Purpose statement:
To introduce the basics of creative writing in prose and poetry
To enable the student to approach a creative writing task with
discipline and direction
Modules:
CCWR01A - Introduction to Creative Writing
Syllabus/Content:
Words: denotation and connotation
Paradox words, images and symbols: in themselves and in literary contexts
Words and the senses: the five basic senses as well as sixth (or eidetic) sense
Words and rhyme, rhythm
Words and sounds: assonance, alliteration, onomatopoeia, sibilants, plosives
Words and sentences: simple, compound, and complex; subject and predicate
The leitmotif: a case study
Rules and exceptions of poetry writing:
Metaphor,
Form and content of a poem,
Praise poetry, Free verse, Epiphanic moments,
The Sonnet, the Ballad,
Parody, Allegory and Satire