ENGL 405 - Poetry Workshop 2

Institution:

Point Park University

Subject:

ENGLISH

Description:

This course is a workshop environment, garnering a significant output of original creative work in poetry. Emphasis will include the craft of the genre as students concentrate on form, concrete language, image, poetic conventions, the line, metaphor, and the lyric tradition. The class will also address revision s an explicit aspect of the writing process. Prerequisite: ENGL 367. Course Objectives Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to: (1) Produce texts that demonstrate ongoing command of concepts and skills attained in ENGL 367. (2) Discuss poetry in workshop to demonstrate engagement with craft, prosody, and process-based writing. (3) Analyze the structure, content, technique, and influences at work in model texts, including work done by peers and professional poets. (4) Use workshop feedback as an integral part of revising drafts of poems. (5) Identify and make use of increasingly complex received and rhetorical forms for writing poetry. (6) Synthesize coherent written and verbal responses to entire collections of poems written by a single author.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.pointpark.edu

Phone Number:

(412) 391-4100

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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