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 $200 G3 tuition provides access to Online G3 live webinars, support services, and included software.
In this course, we will consider American poets whose themes, forms, and voices have given expression to visions of the city since 1850. Beginning with Walt Whitman, the great poet of nineteenth-century New York, we will explore the diverse and ever-changing environment of the modern city—from Chicago to Washington, DC, from San Francisco to Detroit—through the eyes of such poets as Carl Sandburg, Emma Lazarus, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Langston Hughes, Marianne Moore, Frank O’Hara, Gwendolyn Brooks, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Hayden, and Robert Pinsky, as well as contemporary hip hop and spoken word artists.
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.
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 a course-wide community through interactive written discussion of course readings and themes.
- Learn about major historical and cultural events in American history—from the Civil War to Reconstruction, Manifest Destiny, the Harlem Renaissance, and innovations across the arts—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 15-week college class for teens who have already excelled in advanced high school classes. 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
- 25% Discussions
- 20% Content Quizzes
- 20% Readings
- 10% Reading Quizzes
- 10% Participation
- 15% 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.
