Led by Harvard Professor Elisa New, the Poetry in America course series chronicles the history of American poetry from the Puritans to the present day. Semester-long for-credit and non-credit options are available via Arizona State University and Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education.
A subset of courses in the Poetry in America sequence is currently on offer via the innovative Universal Learner Courses program at ASU Learning Enterprise. Universal Learner Course (ULC) enrollees pay just $25 to enroll and take a ULC; at the end of the semester, they pay an additional $400 fee only if they want to add their grade to an ASU transcript.
The following Poetry in America courses are on offer as ULCs at ASU:
Note: These offerings are comparable to Poetry in America: The City from Whitman to Hip Hop and Poetry in America: From the Civil War through Modernism on offer at the Harvard Division of Continuing Education (more below).
We offer the following courses on a rotating basis. There is no prerequisite for enrollment, so feel free to take them in any order that works for you!
Learn about the role poetry has played in American history and culture by exploring the following courses on offer at Harvard’s Division of Continuing Education:
Two of our Poetry in America courses were designed specifically with K-12 teachers in mind…but anyone age 16 and older is welcome to enroll! We see a good number of non-educators every semester, and we would encourage you to take our Poetry in America for Teachers courses if the subject matter is of interest to you:
If you are an educator, please see more information about our offerings for teachers, at the link below.
POETRY IN AMERICA FOR TEACHERS
Fall course registration at the Harvard Extension School opens in early August, and Spring registration opens in November.
Summer course registration at the Harvard Summer School opens in early March. Listings for the upcoming summer term are published in January.
Scholarships are available for middle and high school teachers. Learn more here.
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The rigid and linear design of the traditional U.S. education system does not provide an effective ladder to social and economic opportunity for all learners and is not responsive to the rapidly evolving needs of society.
ASU’s Learning Enterprise exists to foster and grow universal access to social and economic opportunity at every stage of a person’s life. This aim’s fulfillment requires innovative, high-scale education enabled by ASU’s robust knowledge core.
The Harvard Division of Continuing Education offers open-enrollment courses, degrees and certificates, and professional development programs.
Driven by the goals and values of its flagship project, Poetry in America, Verse Video Education develops video and accompanying curricular materials in the arts and humanities and beyond, creating a body of educational content capable of reaching a very broad community of learners: formal and informal, online and residential, young and old, American and international. By producing its own projects and creating thoughtfully-constructed and thought-provoking multimedia content for other organizations, Verse Video Education aims to enhance educational experiences, both within and outside of the classroom.
