Course
Course 3 credits • ENGC18
This course explores how poetry can address sustainability issues relevant to participants' professional, personal, and academic lives.
The course encourages participants to use poetry to deepen their connection with sustainability-related themes that are meaningful to them. It aims to use poetry's emotional impact to transform readers into active agents of change. The course extends poetry's potential beyond the literature classroom, encouraging participants to decenter human perspectives through the analysis of poems.
The course provides a basic introduction to the tools required for analysing poetry and facilitates the application of these to poems on various sustainability topics. Concepts from poetry analysis that will be covered include the use of figurative language, diction, tone, as well as form and structure. Additionally, the course explores poetry and affective responses by exploring how poetry engages emotions. The course delves into both individual and collaborative responses to poetry and how such responses reshape perceptions of sustainability issues through an affective/reader-response lens. A creative-writing component is also integrated into the course. Participants will use the writing of poetry to explore sustainability themes.
Study period:
autumn semester 2025
Type of studies:
part time, 50 %,
distance course
Study period:
2025-09-01 – 2025-09-28
Language of instruction:
English
Application code:
LU-34221
Eligibility:
General requirements and studies equivalent of course English 6 from Swedish Upper Secondary School.
- The schedule will be published 2025-06-19.
- Library Guide Engelska
Second Admission Round
Nationell ansökningsomgång
Autumn semester 2025
Late application
Possibly opens 15 July