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ENGL 2028 - Creative Writing: Poetry

Credits: 3
Hours/Week: Lecture 3Lab None
Course Description: This creative writing class focuses on the writing and close reading of poetry. Because creative writing involves both creativity and scholarship, coursework includes: critical analysis of student and published writing; forming aesthetic judgments about poetry; writing and revising poems; and responding to the creative work of classmates in a writing community. This course does not fulfill the Literature requirement for the Associate of Arts degree at Century College.
MnTC Goals
6 Humanities/Fine Arts

Prerequisite(s): Assessment score placement in ENGL 1021  or completion of ENGL 0090  with a grade of C or higher. Assessment score placement in RDNG 1000  or completion of RDNG 0900  or RDNG 0950  with a grade of C or higher.
Corequisite(s): None
Recommendation: Completion of ENGL 1021  and ENGL 1027 . Basic word processing and computer skills.

Major Content
  1. Close reading and analysis of poems
  2. Study of poetics
    • poetic forms and terms o contemporary poetry
    • poetic sub-genres (spoken-word, prose poems, etc.)
  3. The creative process in poetry
    • writing a wide variety of poems
    • providing written and/or oral feedback in a workshop environment
    • revising poems based on feedback
  4. Criteria for evaluating creative work in progress within a writing community

Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course students will be able to:

  1. analyze a wide variety of poems representing a variety of styles and subgenres.
  2. employ the elements of poetics.
  3. engage in the creative process through writing and revising poems.
  4. make informed judgments about poems.
  5. apply principles of contemporary poetic aesthetics to original poems.
  6. critique published poems as models for their own writing.
  7. experiment with imaginative writing, language, and verse forms.
  8. accept constructive feedback about original work within a writing community.


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