FWC421 : Life writing / Faculty of Film, Theatre and Animation

The course introduces the students to the theory and practice of life writing, a non-fictional prose genre, which explores the events and emotions of real lives, encompassing the keeping of journals, diaries, biographies, memoirs, letter writing, travel writing and many other forms of writing based on personal experiences. The course is designed to provide the students with skills and techniques, ethical principles and professional practices, in order to transform experiences, recollections and real-life phenomena into literary works that are enjoyable and accessible to a wider audience. It will also enable the students to recognize which things are significant, how to characterize them in a way that really brings them to life and how to structure them into a narrative that will sustain a reader’s interest.