EUB357 Poetry: Responding and Composing
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| Unit code: | EUB357 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Timetable | Details in HiQ, if available |
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| CSP student contribution | $555 |
| Domestic tuition unit fee | $3,912 |
| International unit fee | $4,044 |
Unit Outline: Semester 1 2024, Kelvin Grove, Internal
| Unit code: | EUB357 |
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| Credit points: | 12 |
| Assumed Knowledge: | No |
| Coordinator: | Kelli McGraw | kelli.mcgraw@qut.edu.au |
Overview
This unit provides you with opportunities to explore poetry in a variety of forms, theories of how poetry can be appreciated and appraised, and to engage in poetry writing. You will consider, as consumers and creators, how concepts, issues, identities, times and places are represented in poetry. The unit invites you to experience a wide repertoire of poetic texts across traditional and new media, as well as from a variety of places and times.
The unit content includes: a range of written poems as well as song lyrics and spoken poetry performances.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this unit you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a wide knowledge of poetry analysis, knowledge of different poetry forms of relevance to education and make informed choices of appropriate poetic texts.
- Evaluate and reflect critically on poetry using established theories in the area.
- Engage in the critical exploration of ways in which poetry reflects or challenges social and cultural ways of thinking and influences diverse audiences, allowing you to develop empathy for others and an appreciation of different perspectives.
- Communicate effectively in both written and spoken language, through producing your own analytic and original creative work.
Content
This unit will include learning relating to:
- A wide range of contemporary poetry and poetry from various literary eras.
- Poetry from Australian and global contexts, including poetry from First Nations perspectives.
- A range of traditional and new media used for the production and consumption of poetry and how these technologies are used to create meaning.
- Perspectives on poetry composition, appreciation, and appraisal.
- Features of language specific to poetry.
- Critical and creative application of practices and theories examined in the unit to support student poetry composition.
Learning Approaches
A lecture and a tutorial will be conducted each week supported by online learning resources. The lectures will focus on poetry analysis and theoretical aspects of poetry. In tutorials you will look at how to apply your developing understanding of poetry theory and practice as well as undertake creative exercises in poetry composition.
Materials and activities are designed to engage you in your learning through a range of learning approaches including explicit teaching and learning, debate and discussion. You are expected to come to class prepared, having done any prescribed reading, viewing, writing and thinking.
Feedback on Learning and Assessment
You will be provided with an opportunity to gain formative feedback in this unit from your tutor and other students through your participation in regular tutorial discussions. You will also receive written feedback from your lecturer on both pieces of summative assessment.
Assessment
Overview
Assessment in this unit is modelled on poetry analysis and production tasks. Students will first complete an essay comparing at least two of the poems studied, then apply this understanding to create written and spoken poems of their own.
Unit Grading Scheme
7- point scale
Assessment Tasks
Assessment: Essay - Poetry Analysis
A comparative analytic essay based on two or more poems studied in the unit.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Assessment: Creative Work and Reflection
Creative work submitted will be four original poems (written and spoken/recorded), and a reflection on your learning through the writing process.
This is an assignment for the purposes of an extension.
Academic Integrity
Students are expected to engage in learning and assessment at QUT with honesty, transparency and fairness. Maintaining academic integrity means upholding these principles and demonstrating valuable professional capabilities based on ethical foundations.
Failure to maintain academic integrity can take many forms. It includes cheating in examinations, plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, and submitting an assessment item completed by another person (e.g. contract cheating). It can also include providing your assessment to another entity, such as to a person or website.
You are encouraged to make use of QUT’s learning support services, resources and tools to assure the academic integrity of your assessment. This includes the use of text matching software that may be available to assist with self-assessing your academic integrity as part of the assessment submission process.
Further details of QUT’s approach to academic integrity are outlined in the Academic integrity policy and the Student Code of Conduct. Breaching QUT’s Academic integrity policy is regarded as student misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties ranging from a grade reduction to exclusion from QUT.
Resources
The prescribed textbook will be used to support your growing understanding about poetry. It is recommended that you supplement this book with another textbook of your choice about poetry or poetry teaching, to build your personal professional library in this field.
Resource Materials
Prescribed text(s)
Moon, Brian. (1998). Studying Poetry. Chalkface Press.
Recommended text(s)
Lesson, Luka. (2022). Word of Mouth: A Practical Guide to the Poetic Classroom. The Future Ancients.
Malone, John. (2008). Yield: A Practical Guide to Teaching Poetry Writing. Australian Association for the Teaching of English.
Risk Assessment Statement
There are no out of the ordinary risks associated with this unit.