Course Name | Creative Writing |
Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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CDM 203 | Fall | 2 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
Prerequisites | None | |||||
Course Language | English | |||||
Course Type | Required | |||||
Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
Mode of Delivery | face to face | |||||
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | DiscussionProblem SolvingCase StudyQ&ACritical feedbackLecture / Presentation | |||||
Course Coordinator | - | |||||
Course Lecturer(s) | ||||||
Assistant(s) | - |
Course Objectives | This course aims to introduce students to the fundamentals of creative writing and storytelling. |
Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Description | The course combines theories of creative writing with applied methods of storytelling. Students will be required to creatively read, write, revise and develop stories. There will be 5 assignments and a project. |
Related Sustainable Development Goals |
| Core Courses | |
Major Area Courses | X | |
Supportive Courses | ||
Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
Transferable Skill Courses |
Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
1 | Introduction to the course Course Objectives, Requirements, Assignments, Syllabus Overview | |
2 | Creative writing Is creativity innate? Who is the reader? What are the stages of writing? Difference between story, short story, and novel | |
3 | Creativity Creative Writing Styles, creative and informative writing, dreams, unconsciousness, inspiration, Short Story analysis 1, Assignment 1 | |
4 | Creativity Introspection, external observation, Why does the writer write? Short Story Analysis 2- Assignment 2 | |
5 | Creativity The relationship between writing and imagination, areas of freedom, originality and security, review of assignments - Assignment 3 | |
6 | Plot Review of assignments | |
7 | Time Review of assignments Assignment 4 | |
8 | Place Review of assignments | |
9 | Narrative voice The First-Person Narrator Review of assignments Assignment 5 | |
10 | Narrative voice The First-Person Narrator Review of assignments | |
11 | Character development Review of assignments | |
12 | Character development Final assignment | |
13 | Punctuation, sentence length and grammar | |
14 | On literary genres and aesthetic | |
15 | Terminology | Final Project Submission |
16 | Review of the semester |
Course Notes/Textbooks | Gülsoy, Murat. Büyübozumu: Yaratıcı Yazarlık. İstanbul: Can Press, 2004. Le. Guin, Ursula K. Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story, Boston, New York: Mariner Books, 2015. May, Rollo. The Courage to Create. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1994. Mosley, Walter. Elements of Fiction. New York: Grove Press, 2019. Mosley, Walter. This year You Write Your Novel. New York: Hachette Book Group, 2007. |
Suggested Readings/Materials |
Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
Participation | 1 | 20 |
Laboratory / Application | ||
Field Work | ||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | - | - |
Portfolio | ||
Homework / Assignments | 1 | 50 |
Presentation / Jury | - | - |
Project | 1 | 30 |
Seminar / Workshop | ||
Oral Exam | ||
Midterm | ||
Final Exam | ||
Total |
Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 3 | 100 |
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | ||
Total |
Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 4 | 64 |
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 3 | 48 |
Field Work | |||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | - | ||
Portfolio | 1 | ||
Homework / Assignments | 5 | 6 | |
Presentation / Jury | - | - | |
Project | 1 | 8 | |
Seminar / Workshop | |||
Oral Exam | |||
Midterms | |||
Final Exams | |||
Total | 150 |
# | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
1 | To be able to have fundamental knowledge about narrative forms in cinema, digital and interactive media, and the foundational concepts relevant to these forms. | X | ||||
2 | To be able to create narratives based on creative and critical thinking skills, by using the forms and tools of expression specific to cinema and digital media arts. | X | ||||
3 | To be able to use the technical equipment and software required for becoming a specialist/expert in cinema and digital media. | |||||
4 | To be able to perform skills such as scriptwriting, production planning, use of the camera, sound recording, lighting and editing, at the basic level necessary for pre-production, production and post-production phases of an audio-visual work; and to perform at least one of them at an advanced level. | X | ||||
5 | To be able to discuss how meaning is made in cinema and digital media; how economy, politics and culture affect regimes of representation; and how processes of production, consumption, distribution and meaning-making shape narratives. | X | ||||
6 | To be able to perform the special technical and aesthetic skills at the basic level necessary to create digital media narratives in the fields of interactive film, video installation, experimental cinema and virtual reality. | |||||
7 | To be able to critically analyze a film or digital media artwork from technical, intellectual and artistic perspectives. | X | ||||
8 | To be able to participate in the production of a film or digital media artwork as a member or leader of a team, following the principles of work safety and norms of ethical behavior. | X | ||||
9 | To be able to stay informed about global scientific, social, economic, cultural, political, institutional and industrial developments. | |||||
10 | To be able to develop solutions to legal, scientific and professional problems surrounding the field of cinema and digital media. | |||||
11 | To be able to use a foreign language to communicate with colleagues and collect data in the field of cinema and digital media. ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | X | ||||
12 | To be able to use a second foreign language at the medium level. | |||||
13 | To be able to connect the knowledge accumulated throughout human history to the field of expertise. |
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