Official NUC CCMAS syllabus

YOU 407 — Creative Writing in Yorùbá Language

YOU department course · Nigerian universities

What you'll be able to do (official learning outcomes)

• explain the meaning of creative writing
• discuss the features of imaginative writing as different from other academic writings
• classify types of creative writings
• explain the structure of poems, prose and play writings
• stimulate the creative potentials of students in writing literary texts in the Yoruba language
• practise the writing of play, poem and novel, and

Course contents

Writing literary texts in indigenous languages. Features of imaginative writing with specific reference to poetry, drama and prose. Plot construct. Setting. Characters and characterisation. Narrative techniques. Conflict and point of view. Use of language and the organic whole. Composition and writing of poems.

Source: the Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) Core Curriculum and Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS). StudyOps loads this syllabus automatically when you study YOU 407.

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