Sep 07, 2024  
Archive Elmira College Graduate and Professional Catalog 2023-2024 Academic Year-Volume I 
    
Archive Elmira College Graduate and Professional Catalog 2023-2024 Academic Year-Volume I [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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LAL 5002 - Chld Poetry:Expr And Experience


credits: 3.0
This course traces children’s poetry in American through historical and cultural analyses. Workshop setting emphasized the uses of poetry in expressing human experience, and its importance from early childhood to young adulthood in development of awareness. Topics include rhyming games, oral traditions and cultural identification, the development of divergent thinking, empathy, musical and listening skills, and poetry as a reflection of power structures and civil disobedience. 1) To give the student an understanding of poetry in its many forms and roles as:a) a means of cultural identification;b) a cross-cultural expression in rites and rituals;c) a political means of belief-system indoctrination and control;d) an expression of rebellion;e) an on-going, cross-cultural expression of universal experience2) To provide the student with an understanding of the uses of poetry in developinga) aural, visual, tactile, empathetic and analogous perception;b) listening, cognitive, oral, reading and writing skills



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