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Effective Term:
Fall 2024 through Winter 2025

Course Number:
ENG 106
Course Title:
Introduction to Poetry (ENG106=ENG106Z)
Credit Hours:
4
Lecture Hours:
40
Lecture/Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
0

Course Description

Provides opportunities for the appreciation of poetry, including deeper awareness of craft and insight into how reading poetry can lead to self-enrichment. Invites exploration into the human condition and culture, over time, place, and circumstance and in relation to self, others, and the world at large —alongside the seemingly smallest issues of words and sounds through poetry. Covers a variety of types of poetry and poetic forms, from diverse perspectives and eras, develops skills in discussion, literary analysis, and critical thinking. This course is part of Oregon Common Course Numbering. ENG 106 and ENG 106Z are equivalent. Audit available.

Intended Outcomes for the course

Upon successful completion of the course students should be able to:

  1. Articulate how culture and context shape literary texts and how literature contributes to understandings of ourselves and the world.
  2. Identify how literary devices and various formal elements contribute meaning to a text.
  3. Build interpretations based on relevant evidence.
  4. Read a diverse selection of poetry.

Integrative Learning

Students completing an associate degree at Portland Community College will be able to reflect on one’s work or competencies to make connections between course content and lived experience.

General education philosophy statement

English and Writing courses align with the PCC General Education philosophy by providing an appreciation of writing and literature from global and personal perspectives. Students in English courses engage the imagination, critical inquiry and self‐reflection, and in the process of doing so, cultivate a more complex understanding of their own culture(s), linguistic/communication practices, and perspectives in relation to others. Because the literary arts lie at the heart of most human cultures, they are essential for understanding each other and navigating our differences.

In literature classes, students explore significant texts from diverse cultures and periods in history. Students look closely at texts from a range of genres, articulating the way elements of writing, content, form, and style are interrelated, and considering how values and interpretations have changed over time and through different theoretical lenses. Students engage texts through critical analysis and creative response, learning to use evidence to support their interpretations and to navigate critical conversations. Students explore literature both as an art form designed to provoke thought and challenge social norms, and as an expression of human experience.

Writing and Literature courses foster a stronger sense of engagement with history, culture, and society. Writing and Literature students develop an awareness of themselves as readers and writers in a global world, and an enlarged understanding of the relationships between language, identity, ideas, scholarship, communication, and transformation.

Outcome Assessment Strategies

Assessment tools may include informal responses to study questions; evaluation of small- and full-group discussions; in-class and out-of-class writing; formal essays and other types of informal writing; individual and group presentations; essay exams; close reading exercises using support/evidence; writing exercises which include evaluation of various interpretations of a text and their relative validity.  Both instructor and peer evaluation may be incorporated in the assessment process.

Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)

Themes, Concepts, and Issues:

  • concrete imagery           
  • allusions
  • tension                  
  • enjambment
  • diction
  • imagination               
  • explication
  • symbol                   
  • cultural applications
  • metrics                   
  • interpretation
  • iambic                   
  • narrative poetry
  • trochaic               
  • epic poetry
  • dactyllic               
  • folk ballads
  • anapestic               
  • literary ballads
  • feet                  
  • sonnet
  • monometer         
  • villanelles
  • dimeter                   
  • haiku
  • trimeter               
  • rhyme
  • tetrameter               
  • alliteration
  • pentameter               
  • assonance   
  • line
  • consonance
  • stanza                   
  • free verse
  • couplet                   
  • tone
  • tercet                   
  • allusion
  • quatrain               
  • figurative language
  • sestet                   
  • caesuras
  • octave


Competencies and Skills

  • analysis
  • synthesis
  • close readings
  • understanding poetry through historical, political, artististic, and
  • critical contexts as well as employing the language of poetic
  • convention
  • writing about poetry
  • critical reading using reviews and critical essays
  • speaking and listening in a large group
  • speaking and listening relectively
  • small group collaboration
  • recognizing the difference between poetry and prose