dc.description | English Letters Department Program of Mulawarman
University is a part of Cultural Sciences Faculty that has been
established since August 28, 2009. English Literature Program
Study focuses on the English Language and Literature
comprehension. The knowledge gained by the students in this
study program is essential to support the national development of
Indonesian Republic and the regional development of East
Kalimantan.
By studying language and literature in general, students are
equipped with basic thinking tools that enable them to view
critically on daily phenomena happen among the society. Within
theories on language, students raise their awareness of the
language use that maintain social bound. In the other hand, the
theories on literature, students are introduced to various forms of
works of literature and study their significances as social criticism.
In literature, students are encouraged to study poetry as
one of three major literature genres. It is in A Guide to Poetry: Form
and Meaning that students are introduced to various elements of
poetry and invited to look out the effect on the society. It starts
with the attentiveness to the characteristics of language applied in
the poems that differs it to the ordinary language. Students are then
familiarized to the forms of poetry, figurative languages, and the
other intrinsic elements like speaker, setting, subject, and theme.
By having a depth in recognizing these elements, students are
assisted to look further to the extrinsic elements that relates the
poems to the aspects of biography, history and society, philosophy,
and mythology.
Supporting the subject of English Poetry Studies, this book
elaborates its comprehension for the students to have the ability tox
analyze poetry based on the study of literature framework. To
achieve this objective, lecturer prepares Rencana Pembelajaran
Semester (RPS) or Semester Lesson Plan where all the learning
processes are arranged in accordance to the expected learning
outcomes. With the RPS, student’s learning outcomes will be
achieved through a systematic and controlled learning method | en_US |