| S01: FOUNDATIONS |
| writer’s diary: laboratory, research notebook, reflective journal, record of craft development |
| M01 | Make It Stick: Learning How To Learn |
| M02 | History and Historiography: A Road to Understanding the Present |
| M03 | Literature and Language: Tradition and Artistic Medium |
| M04 | Close Reading: Hamlet, The Waste Land, and Beloved |
| M05 | Creative Writing: Steering the Craft |
| S02: THE WRITER AS CRAFT APPRENTICE |
| writer’s diary: laboratory, research notebook, reflective journal, record of craft development |
| MO6 | Poetry: Form and Prosody |
| M07 | Drama: Theatre and Stagecraft |
| M08 | Screenwriting, or |
| Digital Writing |
| M09 | The Novel and Short Story |
| M10 | Reception: Understanding the Reader’s Perspective |
| S03: THE WRITER AS SUBVERTOR OF TRADITION |
| writer’s diary: investigating and subverting tradition through critical creative interventions |
| M11 | The Emergence of the Modern: Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton |
| M12 | Rebellion and the Literary Imagination: Augustan Literature, Romanticism, Gothic |
| M13 | Literature and Social Power: Realism, Naturalism, Brecht, Orwell |
| M14 | Unstable and Multiple Modernities: Modernism, Postmodernism, Magical Realism |
| M15 | The Global/Emic: Postcolonial, Feminist, and Queer Literatures |
| S04: THE WRITER AS MEDIATOR OF FORM |
| writer’s diary: discovering a voice and artistic vision through experimental short fiction |
| M16 | Translation: Cultural Mediation, Ideological Intervention, Rewriting: Wu Cheng’en, Journey to the West |
| M17 | Structure: Bildungsroman: Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit |
| M18 | Genre: Speculative Fiction: China Miéville, Bas-Lag Trilogy |
| M19 | Hybrid Genres: Magical Realism, Postmodernism, Postfeminism: Angela Carter, Nights at the Circus |
| M20 | Mode: Satire: Emile Habibi, The Secret Life of Saeed: The Pessoptimist |
| S05-06: The writer AS dissident |
| the novella: autonomous craft at a publishable level |
| M21 | Research: Reading and Real Life |
| M22 | Planning: Storyworlds, Synopses, Scenes |
| M23 | Writing: Drafting and Management of the Longer Form |
| M24 | Revision: Systematic Approaches |
| M25 | Publication: How To Get Your Work Out There |