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Mar 29, 2024
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ENGL 2600 - Introduction to Poetry Credit Hours: 3.00 Prerequisites: ENGL 1220 or ENGL 1190
Readings to discover and understand the pleasures of poetry. Selections from among the best poems produced by Western Civilization. Writing of critical papers.
Contact Hours: 3 Billable Contact Hours: 3 OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES Outcome 1: Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to demonstrate knowledge of the structural elements of a poem.
Objectives:
- Identify key structural elements including imagery, diction, symbolism, connotation, tone, musical devices, rhythm, and meter.
- Provide meaningful descriptions of the structures of works being studied.
Outcome 2: Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to write an essay of literary analysis that springs from the student’s independent interpretation.
Objectives:
- Recognize and analyze the poet’s use of poetic devices (especially diction, figurative language, and metrical devices) as they contribute to a unified reading of the poem.
- Recognize and analyze a poem’s occasion and point of view.
- Recognize the poem as an artistic creation of the whole person: reason, imagination, and emotion.
- Develop a sympathetic response to the way the poet sees the world and to the attempt to order that world for the sake of poetic presentation.
Outcome 3: Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to write an essay of literary analysis, incorporating insights from secondary sources and documenting them with proper MLA format.
Objectives:
- Offer an effective controlling idea in the introduction.
- Use appropriate support and evidence in the body of the essay.
- Organize the essay effectively, using topic sentences, transitions, and other devices as appropriate.
- Document sources according to MLA guidelines.
COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES (Bulleted outcomes apply to the course)
- The graduate can integrate the knowledge and technological skills necessary to be a successful learner.
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- The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.
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- The graduate can demonstrate how to employ mathematical knowledge.
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- 4. The graduate can demonstrate how to communicate competently.
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- The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society.
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COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE
- Definition: What is poetry?
- Recognizing the tools or ingredients of poetry
- Tropes
- Occasion
- Imagery
- Diction
- Symbolism
- Allusions
- Connotation and denotation
- Tone
- Musical devices
- Rhythm
- Meter
- Common forms: sonnet, ballad, villanelle, sestina, etc.
- The Writer’s System of Values
- Common themes
- Historical developments
- Literary movements
- Socio‐economic influences
- Multiculturalism
- The Writer’s Conception of the World
- Reason
- Imagination
- Emotion
Primary Faculty Kos, Andrew Secondary Faculty Bily, Cynthia Associate Dean Ternullo, Annette Dean Pritchett, Marie
Official Course Syllabus - Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48088
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