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The study of poetry, from the Romantics to contemporary slam poetry, offers a rich exploration of how human expression has evolved through language, form, and performance across centuries. This journey takes you from classic love sonnets to modern spoken word, showing how society and culture shape the way we express ourselves through verse. The aim of this unit is to introduce you to practical skills in understanding poetry and communicating your understanding to others. You'll learn to analyse poetry and appreciate its history and various forms while developing valuable skills in critical thinking and creative expression that you can use in any career path.
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Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Students need to have completed 18 credit points prior to enrolling in this unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2025
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of 'pass' in order to pass the unit. If any 'pass/fail' tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully ('pass' grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the 'assessment task' section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
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Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Student feedback and UC reflection
The curriculum requires refreshed content with lecture videos and recorded tutorials, along with more diverse voices, including more First Nations poetry, as well as more practical poetry analysis and understanding of how to write poetry.
The curriculum will be revised, with new lecture videos and slides, and weekly tutorials to be recorded. The new curriculum will consider an original structure and approach that incorporates greater emphasis on new and emerging voices, First Nations poets, new content on how to write poetry, and emphasis on the development of analytical and critical thinking skills.
Feedback from Student feedback and UC reflection
Assessments require revision.
The assessments will be revised as necessary.
Feedback from Student feedback and UC reflection
Clearer expectations for the unit delivery and outcomes.
Embed clear and deliverable expectations in the unit introduction and greater utilisation of Microsoft Teams for communication with students.
Feedback from Verbal student feedback with UC
A glossary of literary and poetic terms would be useful.
Create a glossary that contains key literary and poetic terms.
- Identify and analyse different poetic forms and techniques, and how they shape meaning in a range of poetry
- Evaluate critical debates and theories surrounding the reception of different types of poetry
- Formulate responses to issues raised and ideas about poetry, and convey those ideas through cogent arguments
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Reflective Practice Assignment - 20% | |||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 35% | |||
| 3 - Essay - 45% | |||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||
| 5 - Team Work | |||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||