At Warwick University, we have in the past used a similar method: a two hour workshop (groups of 10) plus one-to-one contact in office hours with tutors or visting writers.
However, this year we are thinking of changing the set-up of our undergraduate modules. We will hold a three hour session every week with a group of 20 students. Again they will have extra opportunities to discuss work in office hours. I will let you know how the experiment turns out.
Zoe Brigley
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Some of my colleagues have just brought up the perennial subject of the intensive teaching required by creative writing courses. Our basic method of delivery is a two-hour workshop per week for each tutor group, with the groups preferably no larger than 12 - though there are sometimes a few more. Has anyone found a more economical method? Does anyone use lectures? I just wanted to get a sense of how other universities are approaching this problem.
Dr Matthew Francis
Lecturer in Creative Writing
Dept of English Literature
University of Wales Aberystwyth
Hugh Owen Building
Penglais
Aberystwyth
SY23 3DY
Wales, UK
Phone: 01970 622469
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