CRWR 111F - Beginning Poetry

Credit(s): 3

This course focuses on the reading and writing of poetry with emphasis on the techniques of imaginative writing and critical appraisal. (All Semesters)

Course Learning Outcomes: Upon completion of the course, students will be able to

Articulate aesthetic value judgements (orally and in writing) of their own poems and the poems of their peers.
Make significant revisions to their own poems and articulate the standards by which they adjudge the revised poems to be of greater merit than earlier versions.
Locate their own work within one or more schools of contemporary or historical poetic styles.
Risk innovation in their own work and assess their success (or lack thereof) in reaching new possibilities for author/reader connection.