COML 2051 - Writing about Poetry on Wikipedia

(ALC-AS, LA-AS)

Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

N. Pollak.

The primary work of the course is researching and writing articles about poetry on Wikipedia. The course follows two related tracks: studying poetry and learning how to make it accessible to others. Verse analysis and research and writing skills will be emphasized. The semester project is one substantially edited Wikipedia article. As a background to our work, we will consider Wikipedia in the context of both the history of encyclopedias and the digital humanities. A particular focus of our reading and writing will be under-represented poets and poems. The goals of the course are to write about poetry with a broad audience in mind and to contribute to the world’s body of knowledge about poetry.