Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITING

Department: English

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: An introduction to poetry writing through the study of contemporary poets and the writing of poems. The class will pay extensive attention to such elements of poetry as imagery, figurative language, tone, syntax, and form in order to create a vocabulary for students to discuss their own poems. Students' poems will be critiqued by the class in a workshop setting.