ENG 106 - Introduction to Literature (Poetry)

4 Credit(s)

Prerequisite(s): WR 115 or designated placement.

Course Description: Explores the artistic use of language and a world made larger through the vicarious experiences offered through poetic expression.

Course Level: Lower Division Collegiate

Course Learning Outcomes:

CLO#1: Describe the elements of lyric, narrative, and dramatic poetry through reading and analyzing a variety of poems with emphasis on such elements as tone, diction, theme, imagery, rhythm, and form. (ILO: Communication)
CLO#2: Apply a range of critical approaches to literature, such as Formalist, Psychoanalytical, Marxist, Feminist, Reader-response, Deconstructionist, and New Historicist.
CLO#3: Explain how race, gender, time, and place shape a given text.