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Past Courses
Like its counterpart How to Read Classic Texts, this course aims to help students improve their reading skills as they approach reading religious texts as literature.
This class utilizes the basic toolkit acquired in previous classes in order to focus on 20th century art. We will follow three main themes in parallel fashion; by the end of the class, we will be able...
This second course in a year-long sequence will examine European civilization from the 1790s to 1914, looking at nationalism, democracy, liberalism, socialism, and imperialism, as Europe came to...
Combining environmental, cultural and genre studies, this course transports students to the fictional South Poles of four writers: Edgar Allen Poe, Jules Verne, H. P. Lovecraft, and Ursula K. Le Guin...
In this class, we'll study a few exemplary pieces of nonfiction and fiction and copy aspects of them: their structure, their elements, their sentence structure. The point is to get inside the work to...
Students will analyze a simple and perfect story, "Bliss," by Katherine Mansfield. This is a close third-person story written more than a century ago by a masterful short-story writer and admirer of...
Although Claude Debussy despised the term Impressionism, he is regarded as its greatest musical exponent. The radically structured and kaleidoscopically colorful nature of his music represents as...
A critical and historical analysis of French painting in the 19th century with a central focus on the genesis of the Impressionist movement, its vision and the resulting form of the paintings. Each...
The twin foundations of “Western” civilization are often thought to be the Classical tradition of ancient Greece and Rome on the one hand, and the Biblical tradition of ancient Israel on the other. In...
This course is meant to prepare us for a delightfully challenging two-quarter adventure – diving into David Foster Wallace’s gigantic Infinite Jest (1996). We’ll discuss Wallace’s seminal works...