Undergraduate Course: British and American Poetry after WWII (LLLG07039)

Course Outline
School	School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures	College	College of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)	SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate)	Availability	Not available to visiting students
SCQF Credits	10	ECTS Credits	5
Summary	This is a for-credit course offered by the Office of Lifelong Learning (OLL); only students registered with OLL should be enrolled. This course follows the evolution of British and American poetries of the last fifty years in tandem, aiming to find key areas of communication and difference in a transatlantic literary dialogue. We will talk about the most significant poets, trace their understanding of the craft, discuss their experiments and read their most beautiful poems.
Course description	Not entered

Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites		Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations		Other requirements	None

Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to: ż understand the textual strategies and working assumptions at the root of poetsż work; ż assess the interactions between poetry and issues of voice, race, gender, history and art; ż display an awareness of the poetic traditions and diversity in America and the UK.