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Past Courses
By the 1970’s anti-heroes had taken over the collective imagination in American entertainment. More recently television shows like The Sopranos and Breaking Bad, fiction writers like Gillian Flynn and...
Here is the quiet but arresting story of Father Jean Marie Latour, who in 1851 travels with his childhood friend and fellow priest Joseph Vaillant to take possession of the newly-created diocese of...
Origin or foundation epics are common to many cultures. In this course we will examine two such epics side-by-side: the Exodus epic (Exodus–Joshua) from the Bible, in which the Israelites are...
When monks like Antony the Great and nuns like Syncletica of Alexandria trekked into the desert of Egypt to escape and learn the truth about themselves, their reputation for wisdom, miracles, and...
In this course, we will read Frank Herbert's 1965 science fiction novel Dune alongside its many adaptations, from magazine serial to film, television, and video game. Dune tells the story of Arrakis...
This course is designed for writers who want to develop a script on which they have already begun to work. This may include anything from a full-length play to a one-act play to a series of short...
In this course, we read Dickens' great novels of social consciousness, David Copperfield and Great Expectations.
Dickens, David Copperfield, Penguin Classics; Revised ed. edition...
Explore short fiction from around the world in this four-week class led by author Dipika Mukherjee (Ode to Broken Things, Shambala Junction). Throughout the course, we will focus on writing characters...
Don Quixote is the first modern novel and many consider it the greatest. We will investigate what all the fuss is about, through close reading and discussion of big, important questions.
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In The Idiot, Dostoevsky takes up the question of how a "Christ-like" man would survive (or not) in this world. Demons is a 3-part novel inspired by the true story of a political murder, a masterpiece...