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Sep 07, 2024
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Fall 2014 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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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:
Note: A course can only be used to fulfill one General Education category.
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 discus-sion, an understanding of the similarities and differ-ences between comparable poems; and
- demonstrate, through written and/or oral discus-sion, an awareness of traditional forms and subject matter in poetry and the ways innovations have over time given rise to new forms and conventions.
F/S (C, N, S)
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