CJBC831 Creative Writing for students of MU

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jitka Cholastová, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Veronika Bromová, Ph.D.
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
The capacity limit for the course is 15 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/15, only registered: 0/15, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/15
Course objectives
The aim of this seminar is to use the creative writing techniques for the development of creative thinking and expression skills including aesthetic kind of text.
The seminar is composed as a cataloque of methods, text-creating strategies and techniques for writing various kinds of texts in the Czech (or Slovak) language.
The students will have learned how to use the correct methods and approaches of the individual stages of writing an essay, or literary text.
Learning outcomes
Having gone through the course, students will be able to:

- use the correct methods and techniques of the individual stages of essay or literary writing;
- identify dominating features of texts from various literary genres;
- differentiate between the functions of various kinds of text and communicative functions of autobiographical writing;
- proofread text based on its communicative functions.
Syllabus
  • Collective text
  • Automatic writing
  • Acrostic
  • Clustering
  • Acoustical quality of the speech
  • Metaphor
  • Point of view
  • Story
  • Dialoque
Literature
    recommended literature
  • ELIAŠOVÁ, V. a kol. Na stope slovám. Príručka tvorivého písania pre učiteľov slovenského jazyka a literatúry. Bratislava: ŠPÚ; British Council Slovakia, 2007. ISBN 978-80-89225-35-4.
  • HORÁČEK, Radek, Zbyněk FIŠER and Vladimír HAVLÍK. Slovem, akcí, obrazem - příspěvek k interdisciplinaritě tvůrčího procesu (Among words, action, picture - a contribution to the interdisciplinarity of the creative process). 1. dotisk 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2012, 208 pp. SPISY PEDAGOGICKÉ FAKULTY MU sv. 146. ISBN 978-80-210-5389-2. info
  • SLAVÍK, J and P WAWROSZ. Umění zážitku, zážitek umění (teorie a praxe artefiletiky), II díl. Praha: UK - PedF, 2004. info
  • FIŠER, Zbyněk. Tvůrčí psaní : malá učebnice technik tvůrčího psaní. Brno: Paido, 2001, 164 stran. ISBN 8085931990. info
  • SLAVÍK, Jan. Umění zážitku, zážitek umění (teorie a praxe artefiletiky), I díl. Praha: UK - PedF, 2001. info
  • KOŽMÍN, Zdeněk. Tvořivý sloh : malé traktáty a malé scénáře. 1. vyd. Praha: Victoria Publishing, 1995, 102 s. ISBN 8071870374. info
  • RUT, Přemysl. Menší poetický slovník v příkladech : a-z 1974-1981. Praha: Mladá fronta, 1985. info
Teaching methods
Individual writing excercise, teamwork, discussion, homework.
Assessment methods
Requirements for obtaining a credit:
Active participation in lessons
Portfolio with comentary
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: every week.
General note: Max. počet účastníků 15. Minimální počet studentů 10.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Spring 2021, Autumn 2021, Spring 2022, Autumn 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023, Spring 2024, Autumn 2024.
  • Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2025, recent)
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