Course Outline: Creative Writing
Course Outline: Creative Writing
Course Outline: Creative Writing
Course outline
CREATIVE WRITING
S.Y. 2020-2021
Core Subject Description: The course introduces the learners to basic understanding of media and information as channels of communication and tools for the development of individuals and societies. It also
aims to develop students to be creative and critical thinkers as well as responsible users and competent producers of media and information.
1. Typography
2. Genre crossing texts
(ex. Prose poem, performance poetry, etc.)
d. Tone
B.2. Techniques and literary devices
(Modeling from well-known local and foreign poets)
C. Reading and writing fictions
1. Elements of genre
a. Character
b. Point of view
b.1. first person POV
(Major, minor, or by-stander)
b.2. second person POV
b.3. third person POV
(Objective, limited omniscient, omniscient)
c. Plot
1. Linear
2. Modular/ episodic
3. Traditional parts; exposition, rising action, climax, falling actions, resolution- denouement
d. Settings and atmosphere
1. Time and place
2. Cultural, sociological, political, religious, etc. milieu
3. Sensibilities that lead to specific modes
e. Conflict
f. Irony
1. Verbal
2. Situational
3. Dramatic
g. Theme
1. Moral/lesson
2. Dramatic premise
3. Insight
C.2. Techniques and literary devices
a. mood/ tone
b. foreshadowing
c. symbolism and
motif
C.3. Modeling from well-known local and foreign short story writers in a range of modes