ENGL& 238 Creative Writing III: Poetries (5 credits)
Distribution Area Fulfilled Humanities; General Transfer Elective Formerly ENGL 233 -CCN
Prerequisite None.
Course Description A creative writing course focused on writing and evaluating poetry.
Course Content A. Forms of poetry
B. Lines and stanzas
C. Sound devices
D. Use of syntax and organization particular to genre
E. Rhythm
F. Poetics
G. Rhetorical and cultural influences on poetry
H. Writing processes
I. Participation in writing communities
Student Outcomes 1. Write works by employing form and structure as reactions to poetic purposes.
2. Analyze how diverse uses of language reflect power dynamics in poetries and their reception in order to craft project-appropriate diction and syntax.
3. Analyze how poetries are responses to rhetorical situations in order to write to a range of contexts.
4. Recognize features of diverse poetries in order to develop context and voice in creative writing.
5. Discuss how notions of literary quality are constructed (socially, historically and culturally) in order to develop one’s own creative voice.
6. Examine reasons, processes, and implications for participating in and contributing to diverse writing communities.
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.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
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 writings: essays, essay exams, research reports, reading responses
B. Projects: group presentations, individual presentations, multimedia productions
C. Informal writings: journals, in-class responses, brainstorming, freewriting, paraphrase and summary
D. Group discussions and classroom activities
E. Exams and quizzes: short answer, matching, multiple choice
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