COURSE DEFINITION
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1. DATE PREPARED
2/21116
Note: This purpose of this document is merely to update the catalogue description for a course that's
been on the books and been offered regularly for over ten years.
2. PREPARED BY
Kendra Kopelke
3. DEPARTMENT/DIVISION
Klein Family School of Communications Design
4. COURSE NUMBER(S) with COURSE CODE(S)
CWPA623
5. COURSE TITLE
Poetry Workshop
6. CREDIT HOURS
3
7. CATALOG DESCRIPTION (Wording must be exactly as it will appear in the catalog)
An opportunity to write poetry in a workshop setting. Students write a new poem every week and experiment with a variety of styles, from traditional forms to free verse and spoken word. Students read and study poems by contemporary authors and critique one another's work in order to develop their sense of craft. 8. PREREQUISITES
None.
9. COURSE PURPOSE (how the course is to be used in the curriculum; e.g., required for the major, elective, etc.l_
This is one of the three genre workshops offered to students in the MFA CWP A program; students may choose
poetry, fiction or creative non-fiction as their primary genre. All students entering the program are required to
take two workshops in the same genre as they develop their craft in this area. The capstone experience is the
creation of an original book of poems, stories or essays.
10. GENERAL EDUCATION AREA (if applicable; e.g., social sciences, humanities, mathematics, etc.)
Spring 2015
No.
11. COURSE TYPE/COMPONENT (clinical, continuance, discussion, field studies, independent study, laboratory, lecture, practicum, research,
seminar, supervision, thesis research, tutorial or workshop; this must match PeopleSoft 9.0 coding, so check with your dean's office if you
are unsure of the correct entry)
Lecture
12. FACULTY QUALIFIED TO TEACH COURSE
Kendra Kopelke. Steve Matanle
13. CONTENT OUTLINE
schedule
Everything in the universe is within you. Ask allfrom yourself.
Rumi
week 1, aug 26 Course Intro, sign up for poem memorization. 100 words. syllabus week 2, sept 2 Given First Line Poem week 3, sept 9 Discuss voice and detail in Frank O'Hara's Lunch Poems Childhood Poem week 4, sept 16 Daily Poems read Letters to a Young Poet and post in Discussion Forum week 5, sept 23 read a book by a poet whose work is different from yours. Write an imitation. Type up four poems, three by the poet and one that is yours. Try to fool us. week 6, sept 30 Imitation poem Find a poem online about something in the news and post in Discussion Forum. Tell us why you chose the poem. week 7, oct 7 Social Justice poem The poet's responsibility is to comfort the ajJlicted
and to ajJlict the comforted.
-Lucille Clifton
week 8, oct 14
Formal Poem
Discuss Smith's Blood Dazzler
week 9, oct 21
Persona Poem
Discuss Lorca's "In Search of the Duende"
week 10, oct 28
Spring 2015
Duende Poem
week 11, nov 4
Surprise Poem
week 12, nov 11
Collaborative Poem
week 13, nov 18
Free choice Poem
"What you seek is seeking you." - Rumi
week 14, dec 2
Revision and Catch up
Week 15, dec 9
Handmade Book due
Final Reading
14. LEARNING GOALS
Learning Goal #1 in MFACWPA Assessment Plan
1. Write a book of original poetry, fiction, or creative non-fiction of publishable quality.
Learning Goal #3 in MFACWP A Assessment Plan
3. By the end of the course, students will have critiqued examples of creative writing, with respect to clarity, originality,
organization, imagination, tone, depth, and structure.
15. ASSESSMENT STRATEGIES
Exercises and assignments demonstrating the ability to write work of publishable quality and to critique
others' work with respect to matters of craft.
16. SUGGESTED TEXT(S) and MATERIALS (e.g. textbooks, equipment, software, etc., that students must purchase)
Blood Dazzler, Patricia Smith
Letters to a Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke (Stephen Mitchell, trans.)
The Lunch Poems, Frank O'Hara
and a book by a contemporary poet of your choice
17.
SPECIAL GRADING OPTIONS (if applicable)
18.
SUGGESTED CLASS SIZE
15
19.
LAB FEES (if a pplica ble) (include amount and for what expenses fees will be used)
Spring 2015
NONE
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Course Descriptions - University of Baltimore
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Course Descriptions CWPA Course Descriptions
CWPA 620 CREATIVITY: WAYS OF SEEING (3)
CWPA 622 FICTION WORKSHOP (3)
CWPA 623 POETRY WORKSHOP (3)
How poetic language achieves its powerful effects. Students read and analyze various
examples of the lyric, from the traditional poetic forms to images in advertising and
media, and experiment with a range of lyrical forms and styles.
CWPA 624 WORKSHOP IN NOVEL WRITING (]) CWPA 626 LITERARY NONFICTION (]) CWPA 627 MEMOIR WORKSHOP (]) CWPA 628 SCREENWRITING (3) CWPA 651 TYPE AND DESIGN FOR CREATIVE WRITERS (3) CWPA 752 CREATIVE WRITING: SPECIAL TOPICS (3) CWPA 753 PUBLISHING ARTS: SPECIAL TOPICS (]) (]) CWPA 761 TEACHING WRITING (]) CWPA 775 INTERNSHIP (3) CWPA 778 INDEPENDENT STUDY IN PUBLISHING ARTS (3)
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