I. General Information

1. Course Title:
Poetry

2. Course Prefix & Number:
ENGL 1468

3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:

Credits: 3

Lecture Hours: 3

4. Course Description:

A course designed to develop a deeper understanding and appreciation of poetry through reading, discussion, and critical analysis of selected poets ranging from Shakespeare to the present. A Minnesota poet may visit to read his/her poetry following a study and discussion of the poet's writings.

5. Placement Tests Required:

Accuplacer (specify test):

Reading College Level CLC or Reading College Level

Score:

6. Prerequisite Courses:

There are no prerequisites for this course.

9. Co-requisite Courses:

There are no corequisites for this course.

II. Transfer and Articulation

1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:

Normandale CC, ENGL 1186 Introduction to Poetry, 3 credits
Minneapolis CTC, ENGL 1153 Introduction to Literature: Poetry, 3 credits

III. Course Purpose

2. MN Transfer Curriculum (General Education) Courses - This course fulfills the following goal area(s) of the MN Transfer Curriculum:
Goal 6 – Humanities and Fine Arts

IV. Learning Outcomes

1. College-Wide Outcomes

College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies	Students will be able to:
Demonstrate oral communication skills	Present orally, leading class discussion; participate in small- and whole-group discussions to explicate poems and analyze poems in terms of specific poetic elements
Demonstrate written communication skills	Compose a critical analysis or evaluation of literary works using correct format and appropriate sources
Apply abstract ideas to concrete situations	Analyze and discuss orally and in writing the poetic concepts and elements that inform specific creative texts

2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of the course:

• Demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.  MnTC Goal 6
• Understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within an historical and social context.  MnTC Goal 6
• Respond critically to works in the arts and humanities.  MnTC Goal 6
• Articulate an informed personal reaction to works in the arts and humanities.  MnTC Goal 6
• Engage in the creative process or interpretive performance.  MnTC Goal 6
• Interpret poems and support the interpretation with specific evidence from the poems.
• Understand the elements of poetry, such as rhythm, rhyme, word choice, concrete and abstract language, denotation, connotation, tone persona and poetic forms.
• Understand literary devices, such as simile, metaphor, symbolism, allegory and irony.
• Recognize how various poets use poetic elements and literary devices in specific poems.

V. Topical Outline

Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.

1. Lecture Sessions

1. What is Poetry?
   • Language that communicates experience, not information
   • Four dimensions: intelligence, senses, emotions, imagination
2. Reading the Poem
   • Speaker
   • Situation
   • Purpose
3. Denotation and Connotation
   • Dictionary meaning
   • Overtones acquired via history/associations
4. Imagery
   • Appeal to senses
   • Conveys emotion and ideas
5. Writing about Poetry
   • Explication
   • Analysis
   • Incorporating textual material
   • Documenting sources
6. Figurative Language
   • Saying one thing, meaning another
   • Simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, symbol, allergory, paradox, overstatement, understatement, irony
7. Allusion
   • References to something collectively familiar: e.g., historical, literary
   • Reinforces emotion of poem with emotion of thing referred to
8. Meaning and Idea
   • Prose meaning/idea of a poem
   • Total meaning: idea and experience communicated)
9. Tone
   • Attitude conveyed
   • Poetic elements of poem create tone
10. Musical Devices
    • Poets choose and arrange sounds
    • Alliteration, assonance, consonance, rhyme
11. Rhythm and Meter
    • Wavelike pattern of language/sound
    • Accented and unaccented syllables, rhetorical stresses, line endings, meter, metrical variation, scansion, rhythm
12. Sound and Meaning
    • Words/sounds suggest meeting
    • Onomatopoeia, phonetic intensives, euphony, cacophony, synesthesia
13. Pattern
    • External patterns/received forms
    • Stanzaic poetry, sonnet, villanelle
14. Evaluating Poetry
    • Poem's purpose
    • Degree of realization of purpose
    • Importance of purpose