Course Map

1. 1. Access-the-Course-Map for Students New to Coursera online and SloPo Courses
   2. Course Overview with Sample Poems and Sample Discussion Thread
   3. The Library
   4. Week One and Two Materials: Ethnopoetics & Shaking the Pumpkin
   5. Jerome Rothenberg Assemblage of Materials: From Ethnopoetics to his own poetry and his work on A Big Jewish Book — texts, audio, video. 
   6. The Q&A with Jerome Rothenberg
   7. Week Three Materials: Contemporary American Indian
   8. Week Four Materials: Pacific Islander Poetry 
   9. Week Four Materials: Contemporary Caribbean Anglophone Poetry
   10. Week Five Materials: Contemporary African-American Poetry
   11. Week Six Materials: Contemporary Latinx-American Poetry and Performance
   12. Week Seven Materials: Contemporary Asian-American Poetry
   13. Week Eight Materials:  The Ghazal, Contemporary Middle-Eastern and South-Asian Poetry
   14. RETURN TO COURSERA COURSE SITE PAGE

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WHAT    FOLLOWS   IS  O N L Y   

I N T E N D E D  A S   A  M A P 

  for newly joining students 

www.coursera.org the link will take you first to a page that will ask you to register with a name or alias and a password — you can also register as a member of Coursera through links you’ll see to google and facebook. AFTER you recognized now as a registered member of Coursera (remember, doing so is absolutely free) and then you should see a basic home screen that looks like this:

so far, so good. now go into the search bar at the top — to the right of the word “coursera,” and type in “Modern & Contermporary Poetry”

in that top bar, you should see your name on the far right and a text search box which says within it “What Do You Want to Learn?” — just type right over that text — it will disappear.

“What do you want to learn?” is just barely legible here, but it’s the box next to the word “Explore”:  —- “Modern & Contemporary American Poetry (“ModPo”)” should appear as you type. Click the little magnifying glass to the right: That’s going to bring you to a page that looks (or will, after you “enroll”) like this:

After you’ve clicked to enroll, click on the red bar that says “Go to Course.”  Be patient with me, we will have a ways to go……that will take you here:

This is the page for the MAIN SESSION of ModPo, which runs only from September to November. The “Week 1” “Week 2” etc. list has nothing to do with us. Now you need to scroll down that left margin column until the end of it — it should look like this;

This might be the most important step…as it is not intuitive. You’d think you’d click “resources” or “course info”? NO. You do not. You click “Discusssion Forums.” This is the only way to get where you at this point still want to get to….

After you click “Discussion Forums,” You’ll be taken to another page that should look like this:

OK — nearly there.  IGNORE the message under the description. The “Symposium” Mode is that period I mentioned from Sept to Nov. The entire right hand side of the page will scroll down — do so until you see “SloPo” —- don’t be tricked by the appealing names of the other discussion forums…

At this point, ignore all the text in the right column!  Click on the “SloPo” link. Not “General Discussion, not “ModPoPLUS” — “SloPo.” You are going to land somewhere in the middle of the middle list of different ongoing discussion threads — some of them from my class, some of them ongoing from other classes or about other unrelated matters. Again, ignore all the click-worthy looking stuff here.

You want now to scroll the right side of the page up to the top of it. It should look like this:

 

OK >>>>>>>>>> you should now see something familiar from way back up above:

It is now there in the right-hand column. As other things come up over coming weeks, this block-link might move lower, so you might need to scroll down to it, but not yet.

CLICK ON THAT BOX.

At long last, you have reached the classroom.

Now, you see two pinned posts — I assure you that there are many more there below the fold — just scroll down. They will be in a scrambled order. For now, follow the initial numbers 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. to follow the logical sequence I set up — you’ll have to search around to find the right number — and remember which number thread you were just in as you go. When you click on one of these central text-box links, you’ll be taken to the ongoing conversation, which ALSO WILL NOT NECESSARILY BE LISTED IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER — doing so is not that important — but you do want to read through everything posted and get a sense of the shape of the discussion so that you might decide to post a new post OR post a “reply” to someone else’s post. That’s up to you but things seem to go best where the conversations maintain some continuity, so first try replying to someone else’s post before initiating a new one yourself about some entirely as-of. yet-unaddressed point.  To see what a discussion thread looks like once you are in there, scroll down this page — past the poems I’ve posted here as a sample, all the way down to the sample discussion thread about Jerome’s Rothenberg’s translation of “Horse Songs” —- when you click a link in the thread list — it should take you to my initial post where I will provide or link to the needed resources for discussion.  in some cases, as you scroll down through the discussion, keep your eyes attentive to any links that appear in the middle of the discussion. — for example, I linked to two audio recordings of Rothenberg in a post much further below and the only indication that you can link to the audio is a blue MP3 in the post.  I’ll try and be more careful about that, and if I add anything below will post a notification in the topmost initial post. But other students are going to be posting potentially important links throughout the discussion — so at the top is the ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL material that you need to read to enter into the discussion — as the discussion developments, just be aware that more links might be posted as relevant to what is being discussed.

OK.  That’s my guide to getting into the class if you haven’t taken a Coursera class before!!

Below, as I mentioned, as some sample poems from the range of what will be covered in the course.

That’s it!!  I can’t wait to stop typing this guide and get back into the poems!

—-Jason

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   Course Map

   1. Access-the-Course-Map for Students New to Coursera online and SloPo Courses
   2. Course Overview with Sample Poems and Sample Discussion Thread
   3. The Library
   4. Week One and Two Materials: Ethnopoetics & Shaking the Pumpkin
   5. Jerome Rothenberg Assemblage of Materials: From Ethnopoetics to his own poetry and his work on A Big Jewish Book — texts, audio, video. 
   6. The Q&A with Jerome Rothenberg
   7. Week Three Materials: Contemporary American Indian
   8. Week Four Materials: Pacific Islander Poetry 
   9. Week Four Materials: Contemporary Caribbean Anglophone Poetry
   10. Week Five Materials: Contemporary African-American Poetry
   11. Week Six Materials: Contemporary Latinx-American Poetry and Performance
   12. Week Seven Materials: Contemporary Asian-American Poetry
   13. Week Eight Materials:  The Ghazal, Contemporary Middle-Eastern and South-Asian Poetry
   14. RETURN TO COURSERA COURSE SITE PAGE

   

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