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Outcome:
Humanities
Knowledge
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Rubric Element
Full coverage:
address any five
elements.
Identifies facts,
vocabulary, definitions,
terms, concepts, people
Partial coverage:
address any three
elements.
Recognizes concepts or
tools relevant for
application to a task
ENG 263
Introduction to Literary Genres: The Drama
Specific Course
Student work used to
How will this course provide
Outcome
assess achievement of the content to address student
outcome (Assessment)
outcomes? (Student
practice)
Identify facts, vocabulary,
definitions, terms, and
concepts relevant to the
study of poetic literature
and culture.
Recognize and select
concepts (poetic form
(meter & rhythm; genre;
structure), literary figures
(tropes and schemes);
historical/cultural
significance; and
reception relevant to the
study of poetry.
Asks questions or frames Ask questions or frame
hypotheses relevant to
hypotheses about structure
the task
and style (tone, trope,
staging, asides, use of
satiric or tragic
conventions) relevant to
the literary historical
analysis of poetic works
and their historical
settings.
Collects information
Select examples of diction
relevant to address the
and form from assigned
task – e.g. data;
poems that must be
literature sources
researched to reveal
literary and historical
significance; research
diction and discover
meaning according to
poetic, textual, and
historical context.
Formal essays, informal writing,
quizzes, and oral recitations that
attest to student comprehension
and application of poetic forms,
terms, definitions, concepts, and
forms common to the study of
poetic writing.
Lecture will introduce vocabulary,
definitions, terms, concepts, forms,
and bibliographic detail; discussion
and independent research will
fortify understanding; students will
begin to make identifications on
their own as reading assignments
continue.
Formal essays, informal writing, Lecture presentation of concepts
quizzes, and oral recitations that and tools; modeling of proper usage
attest to student recognition and of concepts and tools; discussion
selection of appropriate terms
and workshops to deep
and concepts.
understanding of and facilities with
concepts and tools; workshops that
focus on examples of student work.
Passage selection assignments
that identify use of a poet’s
literary techniques and ask
pointed discussion questions
regarding the poem’s use of
poetic form, style, voice, and
figures.
Lecture will model techniques of
proper textual analysis;
assignments will be used to
facilitate in-class discussion of
texts and then also discussed in
workshops to develop student
thinking about poetic language and
convention.
Oxford English Dictionary
assignment that asks students to
research etymology in a
historical context and apply the
historical and evolutionary
meanings of individual words to
a given poem. Emulation
assignments that train students
to recognize and employ poetic
forms that have evolved and
influenced poetry for thousands
of years.
Lecture will model techniques of
how to identify complex diction,
how also to research and analyze
diction. Instructor feedback on
OED research assignments will
allow students to continue this
work in formal essays. Student
emulations of poetic form and their
presentation of this work via Sakai
publishing will train students to
become familiar with and to think
critically about the relationship of
form and content as a historical and
research consideration.
Analyzes: Applies
concepts to address the
task
Apply relevant concepts to Short in-class writing
analyses of literary texts
assignments that ask students to
apply material from previous
lectures (on literary, cultural,
and philosophical content and
formal structure of poetic
works) to that day’s reading
assignment.
Analyzes: Deconstructs
Deconstructs formal,
Formal essay assignments that
an argument by indicating philosophical, and
ask students to analyze poetry
claims and/or evidence
cultural-historical
through the lens of a historical,
and synthesizes
arguments through the use cultural, or philosophical
evidence from multiple
of textual evidence and
context.
sources
close reading in analyses
of poetry; demonstrates
how this literature engages
with contemporaneous
historical and
philosophical contexts;
relates historical poetry to
contemporary culture.
Analyzes: Evaluates
support for claims and
justifies conclusions
Modeling during lecture of proper
application of appropriate concepts;
instructor’s feedback on informal
writing assignments.
Innovates: Demonstrates
innovative and creative
thinking with regard to an
idea, claim, question,
form, or performance
Participation in in-class
performances and reading aloud;
active audience participation that
leads to creative composition of
poetry reviews. Creative writing
assignments will be introduced by
the instructor through the use of
known literary paradigms.
Performance will be modeled and
guided by instructor according to
his/her knowledge of historical
methods of recitation techniques.
Demonstrates an historical
knowledge of poetic
techniques by deploying
these techniques in
methods of poetic
recitation and composition
that demonstrate creative
thinking by (1)
memorizing metrical and
rhythmic poetry and
reciting in a public
context; (2) emulating
historical poetry and
publishing this innovative
and creative work to Sakai
for full-class critique and
enjoyment; and (3)
responding to historical
poetic form using a
journalistic style akin to
the rhetoric of poetry
critics.
(1) Performance of one or more
poems by assigning students
14+ lines apiece and teaching
them to work together to do a
full-scale memorized recitation
of verse in a public setting. (2)
Creative writing assignments
such as poetry emulations and
reviews written in an historical
and/or journalist style.
Modeling of literary-historical
arguments through lecture;
discussion of paper topics in
advance of assignment and
discussion of instructor’s feedback
after assignments are due; use of
peer-review techniques for essay
drafting.