CREATIVE WRITING: ADVANCED POETRY WORKSHOP

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: ENGL 409 or graduate/professional standing. Students may not be concurrently enrolled in ENGL 307 , 407 , 408 , 409 , 410 , 411 , 469, 508 , or 695 Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Advanced L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: Yes, unlimited number of completions Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Know how to develop the creative and technical skills necessary to conceive, execute, and revise original literary work in poetry. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate sensitivity to language and style on both the artistic and technical levels. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop the critical, analytical, and editing skills necessary to evaluate literary works in progress, both the student’s own work in progress and that of the student’s peers. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Develop the ability to read literary works not only for their social, historical, intellectual, formal, and interpretive value, but for their capacity to inspire and generate new work, and to see in a finished work the process of its being made. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Develop the critical and analytical skills necessary to evaluate literary works in progress, to guide classroom discussion, and to convey concepts of craft to undergraduate students Audience: Graduate 6. Demonstrate sensitivity to language and style on both the artistic and technical levels. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Know how to develop the creative and technical skills necessary to conceive, execute, and revise original literary work in poetry. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate sensitivity to language and style on both the artistic and technical levels. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Develop the critical, analytical, and editing skills necessary to evaluate literary works in progress, both the student’s own work in progress and that of the student’s peers. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Develop the ability to read literary works not only for their social, historical, intellectual, formal, and interpretive value, but for their capacity to inspire and generate new work, and to see in a finished work the process of its being made. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Develop the critical and analytical skills necessary to evaluate literary works in progress, to guide classroom discussion, and to convey concepts of craft to undergraduate students Audience: Graduate 6. Demonstrate sensitivity to language and style on both the artistic and technical levels. Audience: Graduate