ENGL& 113 - Introduction to Poetry

Credits: 5
Increases understanding and appreciation of poetry through a study of poetic techniques and through extensive readings in various poetic forms by selected poets.

Enrollment Requirement: Eligible for ENGL 99 or instructor consent.

Satisfies Requirement: Humanities/Fine Arts/English
Course Fee: $2.00

Course Outcomes:
Students who successfully complete this class will be able to:

Identify the common elements of poetry, including structure, sound patterns, and meaning.
Apply “close” reading skills and various critical approaches in order to analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of poetry through written responses and discussion.
Compare how the contexts of history, region, cultural identity, and mode inform poetic voice and form.
Define how poetry reflects and creates language and culture, which include psychological emotional, and spiritual expression.
Determine how the aesthetic experience of poetry includes embodied responses such as pleasure, wonder, and sympathy for self and others.

Program Outcomes
Demonstrate college-level reading skills by summarizing, analyzing, interpreting, synthesizing, and evaluating college texts; and develop an awareness of the approaches writers use for different audiences, genres, and rhetorical situations.

College-wide Outcomes

Critical Thinking - Critical thinking finds expression in all disciplines and everyday life. It is characterized by an ability to reflect upon thinking patterns, including the role of emotions on thoughts, and to rigorously assess the quality of thought through its work products. Critical thinkers routinely evaluate thinking processes and alter them, as necessary, to facilitate an improvement in their thinking and potentially foster certain dispositions or intellectual traits over time.