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Fall 2018 Catalog 
    
Fall 2018 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

EN 260 - Studies in Poetry


Credit Hours: 3

A course designed to build the student’s skill as a reader of poetry and to acquaint the student with important works and writers in the genre, with emphasis on poetic conven­tions and poetic form.

Fulfills the following SUNY General Education categories: 

  • The Arts
  • Humanities


Course Outcomes
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:

  • demonstrate accurate comprehension of poems of moderate difficulty in oral discussion and in written paraphrase and analysis;
  • define and use vocabulary pertaining to forms and techniques used in the Western poetic traditional and (optionally) other cultural traditions;
  • demonstrate, through written scansion and/or written analysis, an understanding of basic prosody;
  • use pertinent vocabulary, together with evidence in a specific poem, to construct a written analysis of the ways the poem conveys its messages;
  • demonstrate in written analysis a comprehension of the interrelatedness of content and form in a given poem;
  • demonstrate, through oral and/or written discussion, an understanding of the similarities and differences between comparable poems; and
  • demonstrate, through written and/or oral discussion, an awareness of traditional forms and subject matter in poetry and the ways innovations have over time given rise to new forms and conventions.


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