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This is the latest Semester Syllabus for Creative Writing — Delhi University DU & College under the UGCF/NEP framework. Free to view on Sulaksh.
Creative Writing is a 2-credit Skill Enhancement Course (SEC) under Delhi University's UGCF 2022, taught in 2025-26 as a 0 lecture, 0 tutorial, 2 practical (p.1 credit table). As per the official syllabus on academicaffairs.du.ac.in, the course is organised as three hands-on blocks — Unit 1 Introduction to Creative Writing (18 hours) on imagination, tropes/motifs, figure of speech and character creation; Unit 2 Close Reading and proofreading/editing (18 hours); and Unit 3 Steps/types of creative writing (24 hours) covering poetry, fiction, non-fiction and drama with submission/publication workshops. Unit 3 includes writing sessions for poetry (tone/rhyme/metre), fiction (short story/novella/novel), non-fiction (biography/autobiography) and drama (plot/character/climax) (p.2). Evaluation is 'as per guidelines notified by the University of Delhi' (p.3); no printed 100-mark table in this PDF. Examiners expect original samples, not definitions; students lose marks when they describe poetry without scanning a poem or when fiction submissions lack character arc and dialogue, which workshops in Unit 1 and 3 are meant to fix. For revision, map each PYQ to its unit — middle units repeat most — and confirm your college's exact paper code before the exam, as SEC codes vary by theme (as of 12 Sept 2026).
Study notes for Creative Writing- Syllabus — Creative Writing your semester (UGCF 2022), organised in DU's taught order.
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Official sources: University of Delhi · DU Exam Portal · your college's Creative Writing handout.
Creative Writing is a 2-credit Skill Enhancement Course (SEC) under Delhi University's UGCF 2022, taught in 2025-26 as a 0 lecture, 0 tutorial, 2 practical (p.1 credit table). As per the official syllabus on academicaffairs.du.ac.in, the course is organised as three hands-on blocks — Unit 1 Introduction to Creative Writing (18 hours) on imagination, tropes/motifs, figure of speech and character creation; Unit 2 Close Reading and proofreading/editing (18 hours); and Unit 3 Steps/types of creative writing (24 hours) covering poetry, fiction, non-fiction and drama with submission/publication workshops. Unit 3 includes writing sessions for poetry (tone/rhyme/metre), fiction (short story/novella/novel), non-fiction (biography/autobiography) and drama (plot/character/climax) (p.2). Evaluation is 'as per guidelines notified by the University of Delhi' (p.3); no printed 100-mark table in this PDF. Examiners expect original samples, not definitions; students lose marks when they describe poetry without scanning a poem or when fiction submissions lack character arc and dialogue, which workshops in Unit 1 and 3 are meant to fix. For revision, map each PYQ to its unit — middle units repeat most — and confirm your college's exact paper code before the exam, as SEC codes vary by theme (as of 12 Sept 2026).
Official sources: University of Delhi · DU Exam Portal · your college's Creative Writing handout. Verify paper codes and units for your batch.
