The Writing Retreats pick up where the Curriculum Design Workshop left off and are about writing new engaging descriptions of the units that are genuinely student-facing. 

Students don’t get excited reading unit descriptors. Time to change that. If you had to make a jargon-free elevator-pitch to a student on an open day about your unit what would you say?

• Taking place in-person, Writing Retreats are half a day plus lunch.

Who should attend?
The programme team who attended the Curriculum Festival. 

What will I do?
Each Writing Retreat is a guided session with thoughtful activities to stimulate ideas and creativity. We will –

• Share with others what the vision of the units are and see what excites them. What do they hear? 
• Discuss the new way of writing unit descriptors and how it compares with the old and consider the importance of the language that we use. 
• Collaborate in teams to capture the ideas and write the new descriptors. 

What’s the outcome?
Imaginative and engaging descriptors designed for a student audience not a faculty approval meeting!

Next steps

You may just want to get on with it from here, but talk to us about any support and collaboration you would like, contact the team academic-development-team@bristol.ac.uk.