ENG 256: Types of Literature II: Poetry and Drama (3 credits)

Catalog Description

An introductory literature course featuring techniques of reading and analyzing poetry and drama. Emphasis is on discussion of and writing about characteristics and themes of the works. (3 hrs. lect.)

Prerequisite: Credit for ENG 100 or consent of instructor.

Student Learning Outcomes

• Use concepts and terminology particular to literary study to analyze and interpret imaginative literary works orally and in writing.
• Respond to a work of literature as an expression of a culture’s values and compare those values with the student’s own.
• Enjoy a more creative, enlightened, and fulfilled life through an appreciation of literature’s social, cultural, political, and philosophical significance.
• Integrate knowledge of selected poets and dramatists, and their characteristic themes and techniques.
• Explore the characteristics of poetry and drama as types of literature.
• Adapt to the differing expectations put on the reader of poetry as compared to the reader or audience of drama.

Degrees and Certificates at WCC the Course Applies To

• WCC Associate in Arts: DL

Resources

• Drama
• Poetry

Current Offerings

• none

Past Offerings

• None