Creative Writing And Social Action Course

On behalf on the organization committee, we invite you to participate in the creative writing and social action course which will be held between 3rd and 4th of November 2023 at the Digital Research Center of Sfax from 9:00 am to 05:00 pm

Registration is free and mandatory: https://forms.gle/Ff2d9Mjraz6nCGYM8

N.B: A certificate of participation will be delivered in the name of University of Sfax, University of Las Palmas, Digital Research Center of Sfax, Education Tunisia Chapter and IEEE Tunisia Section

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The creative writing and social action course is aimed at improving the knowledge about how to write short stories and to raise social awareness. In order to do so, the course will have two parts, one on-site and one online through a Moodle platform. The total number of hours will be 25 divided in this way:

– 10 hours on-site: The main narrative techniques for writing fiction will be presented and a learning environment will be created in which to reflect on social action and creative writing.

– 10 hours online: In which the students from the university of Sfax-TUNISIA, and the students from the University of LasPalmas-Gran Canaria (ULPGC)-SPAIN, will interact through different activities.

– 5 hours (minimum) of a social action activity organized by an IEEE unit within eanch section.

Agenda

Day 1

9:00- 11:00 – Class introduction and unit 1: The meaning of senses in the creation of feelings.

11:00 – 11:30 – Break

11:30 – 13:30 – Unit 2: The structure of narrative texts.

13:30 – 15:00 – Break

15:00 – 17:00 – Unit 3: How to construct characters and types of narrators.

Day 2

9:00- 11:00 – Unit 4: The scene as a way of composing atmospheres.

11:00 – 11:30 – Break

11:30 – 13:30 – Unit 5: How to give the feeling of the passage of time.

13:30 – 15:00 – Break

15:00 – 17:00 – Conclusions, moodle platform explanation, and introduction to how to evaluate through the narrative texts evaluation rubric.