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.

F/S (C, N, S)