ENGL& 113 Introduction to Poetry (5 credits)

2. Compare multicultural works of poetry as representative responses to historical, social, and cultural contexts.

3. Analyze works of poetry using various approaches to literary criticism.

4. Demonstrate research skills to locate and apply information relevant to the course content.

5. Research and document a written project that critically engages the course content.

Degree Outcomes
Humanities: Graduates acquire skills to critically interpret, analyze and evaluate forms of human expression, and create and perform as an expression of the human experience.

Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50

Potential Methods
A. Formal writing: essays, essay exams, reports, research reports, collaborative projects, summaries
B. Informal writing: journals, logs, free writing, brainstorming
C. Evaluation: portfolios, peer evaluation, group evaluation, instructor evaluation
D. Class discussion, group discussion, instructor observation
E. Objective test: matching, true/false, multiple choice, short answer