ENGL 406 - Poetry Workshop 3

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, theory, and traditions of the genre. The class will also require students to respond analytically to model texts and/or essays on craft and prosody. Prerequisite: ENGL 405. 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 and ENGL 405. (2) Discuss poetry in workshop in order 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 by professional poets. (4) Revise drafts of poems, including poems discussed in workshop and poems drafted independently. (5) Identify and make use of increasingly complex received and rhetorical forms for writing poetry. (6) Identify form and meter in selected passages of verse using appropriate terminology. (7) Describe their own developing aesthetic sensibility and place it within the tradition of contemporary poetry. (8) Write literary analyses of individual poems, full collections, and/or craft essays, using secondary research sources as appropriate.

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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