Academic Calendar 2023/2024 - The Nursery Rhyme

ENGL 2623  The Nursery Rhyme

Prerequisites:

Any 15 credits

Hours:

Three hours of lecture per week or equivalent for a total of 12 hours.

Credits:

1

Description:

Students learn about the history and form of the nursery rhyme in English. They employ skills of close reading to analyze the nursery rhymes as poetry. They engage in placing nursery rhymes into a historical context. They analyze the literary imitation of nursery rhymes in canonical poetry.