1.  Students learn to enjoy poetry more fully and in greater 
depth.
2.  Students will develop analytic tools for understanding how 
poetry works.
3.  Students will develop a repertoire of concepts and terms 
for speaking and writing about poetry.
4.  Students will develop a basic sense of the history and 
evolution of major poetic forms.
5. Students will learn to write about poetry and poetic forms 
in a variety of different genres and media (web-postings, blog 
postings, college essays, examinations, research papers, group 
writing projects and so on).

Instructors may structure the course as they see fit.  In 
general, topics will be chosen from the following list:

1.  poetic form (meter, rhyme scheme, stanza, etc., as well as 
sonnet, villanelle, sestina, etc.)
2.  poetic devices (metaphor, imagery, apostrophe, etc.)
3.  the development of various poetic themes and styles over 
time

In all cases, the course will be structured around student 
writing and both peer- and instructor-generated responses and 
feedback on those writing projects.

Students are expected to be familiar with and adhere to the UGA Student Honor Code.
Students may be expected to perform some graded work in groups, at the instructor's
discretion.