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Dec 30, 2024
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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.
Course Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- use and define terminology relevant to the genre of poetry;
- demonstrate, through written work and class discussion, a knowledge of the historical evolution of the techniques and themes of poetry;
- demonstrate, through written work and class discussion, an ability to analyze a poem through the conventions and methods of the humanities;
- demonstrate, through written work and class discussion, an understanding of a variety of poetic forms and the interrelatedness of content and form in a given poetic work;
- demonstrate, through written work and class discussion, an understanding of the major literary techniques employed in poetry;
- demonstrate, through written scansion and/or written analysis, an understanding of basic prosody; and
- demonstrate, through written work and class discussion, the ability to form educated arguments about quality in the genre.
F/S (C, N, S)
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