Exploring Poetry
Prerequisites: UCLR 100, UCLR 100C, UCLR 100E, UCLR 100M, or equivalent; please check requirements for declared majors/minors for exceptions.
The course will survey British and American poetry, especially from the Romantic movement on, especially of lyric kinds. Class discussion will generally focus on the form and sense of individual poems, and will in general be about poetic ways of meaning, and individual poets' understandings of what poetry is and what it is to do.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of significant poems by selected British and American poets, demonstrate an understanding of basic critical terminology, and demonstrate an understanding of relevant critical perspectives on poetry.
Prerequisites: UCLR 100, UCLR 100C, UCLR 100E, UCLR 100M, or equivalent; please check requirements for declared majors/minors for exceptions.
The course will survey British and American poetry, especially from the Romantic movement on, especially of lyric kinds. Class discussion will generally focus on the form and sense of individual poems, and will in general be about poetic ways of meaning, and individual poets' understandings of what poetry is and what it is to do.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of significant poems by selected British and American poets, demonstrate an understanding of basic critical terminology, and demonstrate an understanding of relevant critical perspectives on poetry.
Pre-requisites: UCWR 110, C- or higher
Tier 2 Literary Knowledge
This is a writing intensive class. A grade of C- or better in UCWR 110 is required to enroll.
The Art of Attention
Taking inspiration from definitions of poetry as ¿the art of attention,¿ this course is reader-response driven, explores what details in a poem call out for your attention, and then how to write persuasively about your reactions. To be able to discuss and write about poetry, you will read critical essays and learn basic terms that describe the formal properties of poetry as well as aspects of poetic content. We will explore 21st Century poetry and debates about confessional, post-confessional, free verse, formal verse, documentary, persona, speculative, and prose-poems.
This section is discussion-based and writing-intensive. Everyone is expected to participate by sharing reactions, raising questions, and working in groups. Requirements include midterm and final exams (short answer), two papers, one podcast project, active synchronous class participation, and asynchronous participation in Discussion Forums and/or VoiceThreads. Course texts include poetry collections by Matthew Olzmann, Molly McCully Brown, Ariana Benson, and Cathy Park Hong, as well as sonnets by additional British and American poets.
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