CJQP10 Creative Writing for Foreigners I

Faculty of Arts
Autumn 2024
Extent and Intensity
0/2/0. 3 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Eva Rusínová
Division of Czech for Foreigners – Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Bc. Petr Šipka
Supplier department: Division of Czech for Foreigners – Department of Czech Language – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Mon 14:00–15:40 J21, except Mon 18. 11. to Sun 24. 11.
Prerequisites
SOUHLAS
Applicants enrol in courses of Czech for foreigners via an application form submitted at the Department of Czech for Foreigners (not via the MU Information System).
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The participants will attempt different writing techniques supporting imagination and a-linear thinking, stimulation techniques, techniques eliminating blocks, collective authorship.
At the end of this course, students should be able to: understand the creative process of the text production; interpret different communicative functions of the text and design the success communicative texts.
Syllabus
  • The themes of the different seminars:
  • Acrostic (My name, my town),
  • Anthropomorphization,
  • Automatic text,
  • Clustering,
  • Digression,
  • Collective text,
  • Experimental Lyrics (a la Zdenek Rotrekl),
  • Reviving photography,
  • Writing in pairs,
  • Snow-ball,
  • Narrating in different time perspectives,
  • Metaphors,
  • Genre variations.
Literature
  • FIŠER, Zbyněk. Tvůrčí psaní: malá učebnice technik tvůrčího psaní. (Creative Writing.). 1st ed. Brno: Paido. Edice pedagogické literatury., 2002, 164 pp. ISBN 80-85931-99-0. info
  • Rico, G. L.: Garantiert schreiben lernen, 1984.
  • Scheidt, J. v.: Kreatives Schreiben. 1989.
  • Werder, L. v.: Lehrbuch des Kreativen Schreibens. 1993.
  • RICO, Gabriele L. Writing the natural way : using right-brain techniques to release your expressive powers. Rev. ed. New York: Tarcher/Putnam, 2000, xix, 262. ISBN 0874779618. info
Teaching methods
Teaching and learning methods: lectures, exercises; class discussion, group projects. Individual writing.
Assessment methods
Portfolio with owen texts.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2003, Spring 2004, Autumn 2004, Spring 2005, Autumn 2005, Spring 2006, Autumn 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Autumn 2009, Spring 2010, Autumn 2010, Autumn 2011, Autumn 2012, Autumn 2013, Autumn 2014, Autumn 2015, Autumn 2016, Autumn 2017, Autumn 2018, Autumn 2019, Autumn 2020, Autumn 2021, Autumn 2022, Autumn 2023.
  • Enrolment Statistics (recent)
  • Permalink: https://is.muni.cz/course/phil/autumn2024/CJQP10