Courses
Required Courses
- PYX 404 Capstone Course
- PYX 100 Gateway Course (1 credit, S/U only)
Offered January 2013
An intensive, week-long gateway course required of all concentrators. PYX 100 is offered during interterm, and enables students to sample the various focus areas within the concentration: translation, book arts, teaching, and poetry reviewing and blogging. The course meets three hours each day.
- ENG 112 Reading Contemporary Poetry (2 credit, S/U only)
This course offers the exciting opportunity to read contemporary poetry and to meet the poets who write it.
Courses Recommended for Poetry Concentration Credit
This selection of courses represents current offerings; the final course listing will be approved by the Poetry Concentration Advisory Committee.
Art and Art History
| ARS 171 |
Introduction to the Materials of Art |
| ARH 293 |
The Artist's Book in the 20th Century |
| ARH 273 |
The Book: Theory and Practice I |
| ARH 375 |
The Book: Theory and Practice II |
| ARS 269 |
Offset Printing |
| ARS 369 |
Offset Printing II |
Classical Languages and Literatures
| GRK 213 |
Homer |
| LAT 330 |
Latin and Elegiac Love Poetry |
| LAT 213 |
(Virgil, Aeneid) |
| GRK 310 |
(Lyric Poetry) |
| LAT 212 |
(a lot of Catullus, as well as prose) |
| GRK 212 |
(a Euripides play, which is all poetry, as well as Plato) |
Comparative Literature
| CLT 150 |
The Art of Translation |
| CLT 202 |
Western Classics in Translation: Homer to Dante |
| CLT 220 |
Imagining Language |
East Asian Languages and Literatures
| EAL 231 |
Culture of the Lyric in Traditional China |
| EAL 237 |
Chinese Poetry |
| EAL 243 |
Japanese Poetry in Cultural Context |
Education and Child Study
| EDC 346 |
Clinical Internship in Teaching |
| EDC 352 |
Methods of Instruction |
EDC/
ENG 399 |
Teaching Literature |
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English Language and Literature
| ENG 199 |
Methods of Literary Study |
| ENG 200 |
English Literary Tradition |
| ENG 207 |
Technology of Reading and Writing |
| ENG 216 |
Intermediate Poetry Writing |
| ENG 218 |
Norse Poetry |
| ENG 236 |
20th-Century Afro-American Literature |
| ENG 251 |
Literature of the Victorian Period |
| ENG 255 |
17th-Century Poetry |
| ENG 259 |
Pope, Swift and Their Circle |
| ENG 260 |
Milton |
| ENG 263 |
Romantic Poetry |
| ENG 268 |
Sonnet Sequence |
| ENG 279 |
American Women Poets |
| ENG 295 |
Advanced Poetry Writing |
| ENG 348 |
Black Women Writers |
German
| GER 229 |
Topics in Literary Forms and Genres |
Italian
| ITL 340 |
Theory and Practice of Translation |
| ITL 332 |
Dante |
Spanish and Portuguese
SPN/
POR 380 |
Advanced Literary Study, Translating Poetry |
Selection of Recommended Five College Courses
The following Five College courses are recommended for the Archives Concentration credit. Consult the current course catalogue to check availability.
Amherst College
English
| ENGL 21-01 |
Writing Poetry I |
| ENGL 27-01 |
Writing Poetry II |
| ENGL 37-01 |
Medieval Poetry |
| ENGL 45-01 |
Modern British and American Poetry |
| ENGL 95-03 |
Poetry 1950-2009 |
Classical Languages and Literature
| EUST 24-01 |
Poetic Translation |
| GREE 41-01 |
Homer's Odyssey |
Hampshire College
English
| HACU 0223-1 |
Woman and Poet |
| IA 0251-1 |
Intermediate Poetry Writing |
Mount Holyoke College
English
| ENGL 250-01 |
African American Literature |
| ENGL 310-01 |
Old English |
| ENGL 306-01 |
Advanced Poetry Workshop |
Classical Language and Literature
| GREEK 201-01 |
Intermediate Greek Prose/Poetry |
| MEDST 300-0 |
Seminar: Old English |
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Chinese Language and Literature
| CHINESE 153 |
Chinese Literature: Poetry |
| CHINESE 660 |
Problems and Methods in Translation |
English
| COMP-LIT 256H |
Poets and Poetry of New England |
| ENGLISH 14 |
Reading Poetry |
| ENGLISH 356 |
Creative Writing: Poetry |
| ENGLISH 375 |
American Poetry |
| ENGLISH 491Z |
Seminar: Poetry and Political Imagination |
| ENGLISH 780 |
Imaginative Writing Poetry |
French
| FRENCHST 427 |
Renaissance Poetry |
German
| GERMAN 771 |
20th-Century Poetry I |
Italian
| ITALIAN 497J/507 |
ST-Dante and The Duecento |
East Asian Languages and Literatures
| JAPANESE 144 |
Japanese Literature-Modern |
Spanish
| SPANISH 497PL |
ST-Latin American Poetry |
