2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog 
    
    Nov 21, 2024  
2024-2025 Yavapai College Catalog

ENG 141 - Introduction to Poetry


Description: Reading and writing poetry. Beginning techniques used for writing poetry.

Prerequisites: Reading Proficiency.

General Education Competency: Written Communication

Credits: 3
Lecture: 3
Lab: 0

Course Content:
  1. Elements of poetry writing (e.g., imagery, stanza, internal rhyme, alliteration, consonance)
  2. Close reading of literary and student texts
  3. Methods of crafting, critiquing, and revising poetry

Learning Outcomes:
  1. Identify elements of poetry (e.g., imagery, stanza, internal rhyme, alliteration, consonance). (1)
  2. Apply elements of poetry ((e.g., imagery, stanza, internal rhyme, alliteration, consonance). (1)
  3. Analyze literary texts. (2)
  4. Evaluate student texts. (2)
  5. Write poetry. (3)
  6. Critique poetry of self and others. (3)
  7. Revise own poetry. (3)

Required Assessment:
  1. Minimum of five pieces (poems) of monitored writing.