FF:UZCJA070 Creative Writing f. Teach. - Course Information

UZCJA070 Creative Writing for Teachers

Extent and Intensity

0/2/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).

Teacher(s)

Mgr. Vlastimil Čech, Ph.D. (lecturer)

Guaranteed by

doc. PhDr. Zbyněk Fišer, Ph.D.
Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Mgr. Eva Zachová
Supplier department: Department of Czech Literature – Faculty of Arts

Timetable

Wed 17:30–19:05 U33

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

• Upper Secondary School Teacher Training in Czech Language and Literature (programme FF, N-SS) (2)

Course objectives

This optional seminar is designed for those interested in using the techniques of creative writing both in school and off-school education or in preparing for educative practice.
The techniques practiced in the seminar will be divided into several groups:
1. exercises aimed at expanding students language abilities
2. exercises aimed at expanding literary abilities
3. exercises aimed at criticism and interpretation of texts
4. playing with texts (onomatopoeic texts, completing texts, textual experiments)
5. texts for private use (diary, methods of unblocking)
6. projects, workshops, text presentation
7. working with school (textbook) teaching texts; making use of them in school and home work.
At the end of the course students should be able:
to create various simple literary texts;
to create various simple non-fiction texts;
to explain the process of their creative writing;
to create a project to evolve text-competence of students. The course runs over a term. The main part is devoted to an interpretation practice of the texts that are a part of literary antologies used at secondary schools. Students defend their approaches to interpretation in controlled discussions. During the course other methods of interpretation (creative tasks, links between literature and writting, drama education) will be mentioned. lépe porozumět literárnímu textu a vysvětlit jeho interpretaci vytvořit různé typy interpretačních úkolů pro studenty středních škol... ; předkládat odůvodněná (argumentačně promyšlená, racionální) rozhodnutí v řízené diskusi. At the end of the course students should be able to: understand better the artificial text and explain its interpretation; create various types of interpretation tasks for students of secondary schools; make deductions based on acquired knowledge in controlled discussion.

Syllabus

• The participants to the seminar will practice creative techniques according to instructions and will solve pedagogical problems connected with reading and composing texts in different areas, e.g. in teaching Czech as a mother tongue or as a foreign language, teaching literature and composition, creative work in humanities. The seminar will point at pedagogic and educational specifics of creative writing and at the possibilities of their use; the participants will suggest new tasks and their solutions appliable in educational practice. 1. Selected texts of oral narration and poetry. 2. Selected texts of ancient literature (focused on antique drama). 3. Selected texts of world and Czech literature of the Middle Ages. 4. Selected texts of world literature of the Renaissance. 5. Selected texts of world and Czech Baroque literature. 6. Selected texts of world literature of classicism, the enligtenment and preromantism. 7. Selected texts of literature of the Czech Revival Period. 8. Selected texts of world and Czech romantism. 9. Selected texts of literature written by Máj generation, Ruch and Lumír generations 10. Selected texts of Czech realism. 11. Selected texts of world and Czech literature of the end of 19th century. 12. Selected texts of world and Czech drama between two world wars. 13. Selected texts of world and Czech prose between two world wars. 14. Selected texts of world and Czech poetry between two world wars. 15. Selected texts of world and Czech drama after 1945. 16. Selected texts of world and Czech prose after 1945. 17. Selected texts of world and Czech poetry after 1945. 18. Selected texts of world and Czech contemporary literature, orientation at the book market. 19. Selected texts of regional literature. 20. Selected texts of particular genres (sonnet, balad, film story, myth, fairy tale... ). 21. Selected texts of lyrics.

Literature

required literature
• CHOLASTOVÁ, Jitka. Tvůrčí psaní třikrát jinak. Česká literatura : časopis pro literární vědu. Praha: Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, 2004, vol. 2004, No 5. ISSN 0009-0468. info
• 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
• KOŽMÍN, Zdeněk. Tvořivý sloh :malé traktáty a malé scénáře. 1. vyd. Praha: Victoria Publishing, 1995, 102 s. ISBN 80-7187-037-4. info

recommended literature
• BRHELOVÁ, Eva. Tvorba dramatického textu a její pedagogické aplikace. Vyd. 1. Brno: Janáčkova akademie múzických umění v Brně, 2006, 285 s. ISBN 8086928179. info
• FIŠER, Zbyněk. Tvůrčí psaní - klíčová kompetence na vysoké škole. Sborník příspěvků z mezinárodní konference. (Creative Writing - a Basic Competence at University Lavel.). In Tvůrčí psaní - klíčová kompetence na vysoké škole. 1st ed. Brno: Doplněk, 2005, 184 pp. ISBN 80-7239-182-8. info
• FIŠER, Zbyněk. Tvůrčí psaní. Metodický materiál. (Creative Writing.). Praha: Výzkumný ústav pedagogický., 2003. Rámcový vzdělávací projekt gymn. vzdělávání. URL info
• BERÁNKOVÁ, Eva. Tvořivá hra jako cesta k pochopení literárního díla. 1. vydání. Plzeň: Fraus, 2002, 106 stran. ISBN 8072381822. info
• KOŽMÍN, Zdeněk. Interpretace básní. Vyd. 2., přeprac. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1997, 186 s. ISBN 8021016949. info
• BERNE, Eric. Jak si lidé hrají. Translated by Gabriela Nová. 2. vyd., v Dialogu 1. vyd. Liberec: Dialog, 1992, 193 s. ISBN 80-85194-52-X. info

not specified
• 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. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2010, 208 pp. SPISY PEDAGOGICKÉ FAKULTY MU sv. 146. ISBN 978-80-210-5389-2. info
• FIŠER, Zbyněk. Tvůrčí psaní pro dospělé v teorii a praxi. (Creative writing). 1st ed. Brno: Vzdělávací a poradenské centrum Masarykovy univerzity, 2005, 32 pp. Univerzita třetího věku. info
• MINÁŘOVÁ, Eva. Slohové vyučování (Composition teaching). In Slohové vyučování. Brno: PdF Masarykovy univerzity, 1996. ISBN 80-210-1006-1. info

Teaching methods

Teamwork, class discussion, individual writing exercise, homeworks.

Assessment methods

Portfolio with didactic commentary on own texts and exercise of literary education.

Language of instruction

Czech

Further comments (probably available only in Czech)

Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.
General note: Max. počet účastníků 16, minimální počet účastníků 5.

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