Creative Writing for Beginners — Part-time
Course outline
Community courses are “first steps” for adults to learn new skills, develop confidence, meet others in welcoming classroom. The purpose of courses is to support students into further learning or employment (paid or voluntary).
This short course is to enable you to enhance your creative writing skills.
During the course you will:
- Explore what creative writing is
- Assess your own motivation to write
- Generate writing ideas
- Plot a structure to a short story or novel
- Create character profiles
- Format dialogue to develop a story
- Recognise opportunities to publish your own writing
You will achieve objectives by participating in group activities, completing written activities, online quizzes, and other interactive activities both during the session and in your own time, and completing independent learning activities.
You should attend regularly and arrive on time to make best progress on course.
You will complete a short diary weekly in class time, to record your progress and receive written tutor feedback.
You will use Microsoft Teams whilst on the course. Microsoft Teams is a free, safe online app used by Nottingham College for tutors to contact students.
Using Teams will also enable you to develop and feel confident using digital skills.
For more information on using Microsoft Teams and the induction process, please visit our Induction Information for Community Students page.
How to apply for this course
Apply now and if you need to pay any course fees, or provide evidence if you wish to claim a fee reduction, we will contact you to let you know how to do this.
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Location:
Stoney Street
Nottingham NG1 1NG |
Date / time:Start: Thursday 26th September 2024 End: Thursday 12th December 2024 Time: 6:00pm - 8:15pm |
Fees / reductions:Tuition fees may be waived for this course if you are in receipt of certain benefits or have a low income. Please see our Fee and Financial Support page to see if you can claim a fee reduction. Tuition fee: £78.75 |
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Course code: C052659 / Q052660 |
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| Qualification | Non-accredited |
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| Level | Entry Level |
| Entry requirements | There are no formal entry requirements but you must be aged 19+. You will complete a weekly “Student Diary” and so ESOL students should be studying at entry 3 or higher to enrol on a Community course taught by non-ESOL tutor. |
| Teaching & assessment | Tutors will give weekly verbal and written feedback. You will complete a short workbook and set your own personal targets, as well be progressing though the general course learning outcomes. This will help you and your tutors record progression on the course. |
| Progression | The course tutor and development workers can advise of other learning opportunities within Community faculty or signpost you to courses in other vocational areas of Nottingham College. You will have the opportunity to receive progression guidance from an external locally based agency “Futures for You” whilst on the course. If you are interested in progressing onto leisure courses in your chosen subject, you may have opportunities to do so at Nottingham College or be signposted to other leisure courses in the Nottingham area.
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| Additional information | Please bring a pen and notebook/paper for taking notes. |