| Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) |
Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives |
| Course Objectives |
Competency Indicators |
Ratio(%) |
Teaching Methods |
Assessment Methods |
| It aims to help students understand world poetry in terms of both the intrinsic poetic elements and the extrinsic political issues relating to personal identity, gender, and ecocentrism. |
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| topic Discussion/Production |
| Discussion |
| Lecturing |
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| Written Presentation |
| Attendance |
| Oral Presentation |
| Quiz |
| Other |
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| Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule |
| Week |
Course Content |
| Week 1 |
Course description/elements of poetry
Word Order
William Shakespeare: ”Let me not to the Marriage of true minds” (p402) |
| Week 2 |
Elements of poetry: speaker, simile.
Emily Dickinson: ”Narrow Fellow”
Pat Mora “Veiled”
Topic 1: Romanticism: man in nature
William Wordsworth ”I Wonder Lonely as a Cloud” (p416) |
| Week 3 |
Element Of Poetry: Ryme as pattern; irony in voice
Robert Browning: ”My Last Duchess” (p132)
Tomas Hardy: ”The Man He Killed” (p26)
Ariel Dorfman: ”Hope”
Group discussion on topic 1 and oral report
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| Week 4 |
Elements of poetry: imagery
Elizabeth Bishop: ”The Fish”,(p296)
Topic 2: Modernism-- order, anxiety and sense of loss
Wallace Stevens: ”Anecdote of the Jar” (p405)
Theodore Roethke: ”My Papa’s Waltz” (p401)
W.B. Yeats: ”Leda and the Swan” (p146)
Robert Frost : The Road Not Taken” (p90)
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| Week 5 |
T.S. Eliot: ”The LOve Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (p285)
Charles Baudelaire: ”A Carcass” & other poems(The Flowers of Evil)
Group discussion on topic 2
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| Week 6 |
Group Report (with PPT) on topic 2
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| Week 7 |
Topic 3: Personal identity--feminism/gender
Adrienne Rich: ”Aunt Jennifer’s Tiger” (p238), ”Diving into the Wreck” (p298)
Group discussion on topic 3 |
| Week 8 |
No class (spring vacation) |
| Week 9 |
no class/Midterm |
| Week 10 |
Group report (with PPT) Topic 3 |
| Week 11 |
Element of Poetry: Metaphor
Topic 4: personal identity-- race/ethnicity
Langston Hughes: ”Harlem” (p71) |
| Week 12 |
Gwendolyn Brooks: ”We Real Cool” (p190) , ”First Fight. Then Fiddle”
Group discussion on topic 4 |
| Week 13 |
Group report (with PPT) on topic 4 |
| Week 14 |
Topic 5: ecopoetry
Linda Hogan: ”Affinity: Mustang”, |
| Week 15 |
Mary Oliver: ”The Egret”, ”Egrets”, ”Snowy Egret”, ”The Ponds”
Group discussion on topic 5
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| Week 16 |
Group report (with PPT) on topic 5 |
| Week 17 |
Recapitulation |
| Week 18 |
no class/Final exam |
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| Evaluation |
Midterm exam 30%
final exam 30%
class work 40% attendance, quiz, oral report, participation (group discussion/activities)
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| Textbook & other References |
| Sound & Sense: An Introduction to Poetry. Twelfth Edition, Thomas R. A & Greg Johnson (Caves Book) |
| Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website |
| Handout posted ILearning 3.0 |
| Office Hours |
| Friday 20:00-22:00 |
| Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs(Link URL) |
| | include experience courses：N |
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