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Official Course Syllabi 2020-2021 
    
Official Course Syllabi 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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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:

  1. Identify key structural elements including imagery, diction, symbolism, connotation, tone, musical devices, rhythm, and meter.
  2. 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:

  1. 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.
  2. Recognize and analyze a poem’s occasion and point of view.
  3. Recognize the poem as an artistic creation of the whole person: reason, imagination, and emotion.
  4. 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:

  1. Offer an effective controlling idea in the introduction.
  2. Use appropriate support and evidence in the body of the essay.
  3. Organize the essay effectively, using topic sentences, transitions, and other devices as appropriate.
  4. Document sources according to MLA guidelines.

COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES
(Bulleted outcomes apply to the course)

  1. The graduate can integrate the knowledge and technological skills necessary to be a successful learner.
  1. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.
  1. The graduate can demonstrate how to employ mathematical knowledge.
  • 4. The graduate can demonstrate how to communicate competently.
  1. The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society.

COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE
  1. Definition: What is poetry?
  2. Recognizing the tools or ingredients of poetry
    1. Tropes
    2. Occasion
    3. Imagery
    4. Diction
    5. Symbolism
    6. Allusions
    7. Connotation and denotation
    8. Tone
    9. Musical devices
    10. Rhythm
    11. Meter
    12. Common forms: sonnet, ballad, villanelle, sestina, etc.
  3. The Writer’s System of Values
    1. Common themes
    2. Historical developments
    3. Literary movements
    4. Socio‐economic influences
    5. Multiculturalism
  4. The Writer’s Conception of the World
    1. Reason
    2. Imagination
    3. 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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