12/22/2024 3:48:55 AM	ENGL 3 Course Outline as of Spring 2003	Changed Course
CATALOG INFORMATION
Discipline and Nbr:  ENGL 3	Title:  INTRO TO POETRY
Full Title:  Introduction to Poetry
Last Reviewed:3/28/2022

Units		Course Hours per Week			Nbr of Weeks	Course Hours Total
Maximum	3.00	Lecture Scheduled	3.00		17.5 max.	Lecture Scheduled	52.50
Minimum	3.00	Lab Scheduled	0		6 min.	Lab Scheduled	0
		Contact DHR	0			Contact DHR	0
		Contact Total	3.00			Contact Total	52.50
		Non-contact DHR	0			Non-contact DHR Total	0

Total Out of Class Hours:  105.00

Total Student Learning Hours: 157.50

Title 5 Category:  AA Degree Applicable
Grading:  Grade or P/NP
Repeatability:  00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP
Also Listed As: 
Formerly: 

Catalog Description:

Study of the nature, variety and significance of poetry: a studious pursuit of what makes poems work, why they are valued, and how to enjoy them fully.

Prerequisites/Corequisites:
ENGL 1A or higher English Course.

Recommended Preparation:

Limits on Enrollment:

Schedule of Classes Information
Description:

Study of the nature, variety and significance of poetry: a studious pursuit of what makes poems work, why they are valued & how to enjoy them fully.

(Grade or P/NP)
Prerequisites:ENGL 1A or higher English Course.
Recommended:
Limits on Enrollment:
Transfer Credit:CSU;UC.
Repeatability:00 - Two Repeats if Grade was D, F, NC, or NP

ARTICULATION, MAJOR, and CERTIFICATION INFORMATION

Associate Degree:		Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
Area:	E	Humanities
CSU GE:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	C2	Humanities		Fall 1981
IGETC:	Transfer Area			Effective:	Inactive:
	3B	Humanities		Fall 1981
CSU Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
UC Transfer:	Transferable	Effective:	Fall 1981	Inactive:
C-ID:

Certificate/Major Applicable: Not Certificate/Major Applicable

COURSE CONTENT

Outcomes and Objectives:
At the conclusion of this course, the student should be able to:

Students will be able to:

1. Analyze a poem's structure, including the effects of its patterns of

sound, its rhetoric, its imagery, and its use of figurative language;

2. Analyze their own response to the poem considering the above effects;

3. Differentiate between the literal and inferential in interpreting

meaning within poetry;

4. Analyze historical/cultural context in relation to form and content of

poems;

5. Synthesize in a prose commentary their comprehension of a poem as a

whole and in significant contexts (e.g., in comparing the poem to

others within a group by the same author or other authors, or in a

specific historical context);

6. Evaluate whether the poem(s) are effective given the subject and

purpose of the author.

Topics and Scope

1.  Isolation and study of (and some experimentation with) such poetic

   processes as the manipulation of diction, syntax, imagery, sounds,

   and rhythms, poetry of the past and present;

2.  Study of the varieties of poetic experience as seen in such

   traditional types as the lyric and epic and in such forms as the

   sonnet, ode, and elegy;

3.  Study of poems in various groupings--thematic, historical, technical;

4.  Study of the contexts of the poetic experience: the relationship of

   a poem to other poems, and to the human world of pleasure and pain,

   consciousness, place, history, art, religion, morality, politics,

   and ideas;

5.  Study of what writing poems means for poets, of their sensibilities

   and purposes.

Assignments:

1. In addition to poems studied in class, students may read an

anthology of poems outside of class and report on it to the class.

2. Each student will also study and present written and/or oral

reports (analytical) on selections of poems either assigned by the

teacher or chosen by the student.

3. Each student will demonstrate the ability to recognize the basic

elements of poetry (e.g., figurative language) through writing or

an oral presentation on poetry.

4. Students may be asked to read or recite from memory a poem of his or

her choice.

Methods of Evaluation/Basis of Grade.

Writing: Assessment tools that demonstrate writing skill and/or require students to select, organize and explain ideas in writing.		Writing 50 - 70%
Term papers, Analytical, evaluative, and/or research papers
Problem solving: Assessment tools, other than exams, that demonstrate competence in computational or non-computational problem solving skills.		Problem Solving 0 - 0%
None
Skill Demonstrations: All skill-based and physical demonstrations used for assessment purposes including skill performance exams.		Skill Demonstrations 10 - 20%
Class performances, Performance exams, Read or recite poem
Exams: All forms of formal testing, other than skill performance exams.		Exams 10 - 20%
Essay exams
Other: Includes any assessment tools that do not logically fit into the above categories.		Other Category 10 - 20%
Participation in class discussions and attendance

Representative Textbooks and Materials:

Gwynn, R. S., ed. POETRY: A LONGMAN POCKET ANTHOLOGY. 2nd ed.

    Longman, 1998.

Kennedy, X.J., and Dana Gioia, eds. AN INTRODUCTION TO POETRY,

    9th ed. Longman, 1998.

Meyer, Michael, ed. POETRY: AN INTRODUCTION. 2nd ed. Bedford. 1998.

Vendler, Helen, ed. POEMS, POETS, POETRY: AN INTRODUCTION AND

    ANTHOLOGY. Bedford, 1997.

Supplementary handouts of poems accompanying student presentations.

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