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Oct 04, 2024
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LAL 5002 - Child 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 experience; 2) To provide the student with an understanding of the uses of poetry in developing a) an aural, visual, tactile, empathetic and analogous perception; b) listening, cognitive, oral, reading and writing skills.
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