Internship

Recommended Prerequisites

Level C1 in English

Teaching Methods

Tutorial supervision whose methodology will depend on the topic and the area. The process of teaching is based on tutorial supervision of the internship, as well as reading and commentary of the internship report, which will take place in successive iterations of writing and rewriting.

Learning Outcomes

1. To develop the ability to integrate into a creative writing team within a theatre company, film or television screenwriting team or creative team in a print or online publication;

2. To demonstrate the ability to use different materials in collaborative situations (literature, documentary recordings, image archives, interviews; meetings, group and team work, etc.) for the construction of creative projects;

3. To demonstrate personal contributions to the final creations of the referred teams, taking into account the objectives set for the elaboration of creative projects;

4. To show ability for self-reflection and critical grounding of the creative processes developed by the student or by the team with which they worked on an internship basis;

5. To be able to anticipate the public reception of the developed creative projects according to a pragmatics of communication perspective.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Depending on the topic and domain chosen by the student. The specific contents for the project/dissertation/internship cannot be specified a priori since they will depend on students' options. Thus, the nature of the project (fiction writing, theatre, poetry, digital forms, etc.,) or the dissertation (theories of creative writing, theories of writing processes, etc.) or internship (theater company, book publisher, audiovisual production company, etc.) will imply different syllabi.

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Evaluation is based on the assessment of the final version of the internship report : 100.0%

Bibliography

Além das obras que dependem da área e do tema escolhidos pelo/a estudante, serão usadas as seguintes obras de referência:

ADSIT, J. (ed.) (2018). Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer's Craft. Bloomsbury Academic.

CARVALHO, M. (2014). Quem disser o contrário é porque tem razão. Letras sem tretas. Guia Prático de Escrita de Ficção. Lisboa: Porto Editora.

CLARK, M. D.; Hergenrader, T.; and Rein, J. (2017). Creative Writing Innovations: Breaking Boundaries in the Classroom. London: Bloomsbury.

CLARK, M. D.; Hergenrader, T.; and Rein, J. (2015).  Creative Writing in the Digital Age: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy. London: Bloomsbury.

HARPER, G. ed. (2013). A Companion to Creative Writing. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.