This syllabus was submitted to the Office of Academic Affairs by the course instructor. Uploaded by Archives RSA Josephine Hill.This course is intended to give students an opportunity to further refine & define creative writing ideas & skills learned in either an introductory poetry class or an introductory fiction class. Beginning in the crucial current, we will then “go back” to employ, study, & question the more traditional forms of poetry. Students will choose a topic & then, using devices of revision and reinvention, students will learn to work with & against not only inherited forms but forms of their own so that they can begin to make more potent choices according to the needs of subject & context. In addition to studying & discussing as much as possible from the required texts, students will write. The majority of writing will generate from reading & from exercises & techniques plied in class & further honed in weekly assignments. This class also serves as an introduction to poetics in preparation for more advanced, theoretical work at the senior level.