Online G3 is offering this dual enrollment course in collaboration with Arizona State University. Content is provided by ASU. Support services and live webinars are provided by Online G3. Your $25 registration fee goes directly to ASU for access to course materials. The $150 G3 tuition provides access to Online G3 live webinars, support services, and included software.
This course draws from the acclaimed Poetry in America PBS series. Beginning with the poetry of the American Civil War and the series of major events and social movements that followed it, we read such poets as Herman Melville, Julia Ward Howe, Walt Whitman, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, and Emma Lazarus, and examine the language of patriotism, pride, violence, loss, and memory inspired by the nation’s greatest conflict.
As we enter the twentieth century, we encounter modernism, a movement that spanned the decades from the 1910s to the mid-1940s, and whose poetry marked a break from past traditions and past forms. We read such poets as Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Langston Hughes, William Carlos Williams, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Claude McKay, Dorothy Parker, and Wallace Stevens. We study how these poets employed the language of rejection and revolution, of making and remaking, of artistic appropriation and cultural emancipation.
Poetry in America courses feature a combination of video tutorials and conversations, archival images and texts, expeditions to historic literary sites, sample classroom visits, and practical exercises designed to support skills development. This is a companion course to the popular PBS series Poetry in America. Both the course and the series were designed by Harvard and ASU Professor, Elisa New. English 131 is a repeatable course with varying poetry topics.
Students will:
- Learn and practice the course’s four approaches to reading a poem, which can be applied to reading literary texts more broadly
- Build course-wide community through interactive written discussion of course readings and themes and live seminars
- Learn about major historical and cultural events in American history—from the Civil War to Reconstruction, Jim Crow, industrialization, the Harlem Renaissance, and beyond—that shaped American literature.
- Experience the power of place through video excursions to the actual sites where our poets lived and wrote
- Practice critical and creative analysis and writing, and reflect on your goals and progress as a reader and writer
This is an intensive 13-week college class for teens who have already excelled in advanced high school classes. Strong writing skills are required. Weekly webinars with a G3 instructor are 50 minutes long. Recordings are available for students who must miss a session.
Required books:
- All resources are provided online in the ASU classroom at no additional cost.
Exams and grading
- 30% Reading Response Assignments
- 20% Annotation Assignments
- 20% Content Quizzes
- 10% Creative Project
- 20% Final Exam
All assignments must be submitted by the stated deadlines. ASU Online does not permit the submission of late work under ANY circumstances.
ASU Credit
Student progress is closely monitored by G3 staff to help students achieve success in each course. However, at the end of the course, the student has the option to decide whether or not to place the course on an official ASU transcript for college credit. This allows the student to earn high school credit and attempt college credit without fear of failure! Students can choose to drop or audit the ASU course at any time. If the student chooses to finish the course and place the credits on an official ASU transcript, an additional $400 fee (set by ASU and payable directly to ASU) will apply.
