| FYS I: How to Read a Poem |
Liberal Arts |
1001 (08S) |
Fall 2024 |
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Description
FYS I prepares students for advanced study in the Liberal Arts by attending to the foundational skills of college-level writing and interpretation, such as close reading, critical analysis, academic argumentation, essay structure, and style. This first-year seminar focuses our attention on poetry. While it's common for students to find poems baffling or even alienating, we will practice the kinds of reading skills and receptive states of mind that open poetry up to understanding and enjoyment. By reading, discussing, and writing about a small number of short poems every week (drawn from a variety of poets, periods, and places) we will see how reading poetry well does not require elite or occult knowledge but patience, interest, attention, and curiosity. Students will practice reading slowly and closely and writing about poetry in a way that reproduces that slowness and closeness in their own prose. Students should expect to write 15 to 20 pages of formal, revisable writing.
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Class Number
1478
Credits
3
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| FYS II: Hollywoodland |
Liberal Arts |
1005 (029) |
Spring 2024 |
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Description
FYS II are theme-based writing courses designed for first-year students, with an emphasis on further developing the foundational writing skills students learned in FYS I. Students will continue to hone the intellectual skills of reading critically, and writing responsively, which forms the basis of each student's career at the School. While faculty have autonomy in determining course theme, the theme is an accessory to the writing; the balance in these classes is weighed toward explicit writing instruction and workshopping of student writing, not content. This course provides guided experience in writing college-level essays of various kinds, which may include critical, analytical and argumentative essays, and must include the research paper. It is a policy of the department that at least one essay be a research paper which may involve searching for sources in a library or online, learning to make citations, and preparing an annotated bibliography. A significant amount of time is devoted to the craft of writing, and more sophisticated methods of argumentation and use of evidence and developing independent claims and ideas are explored. Students should expect to write 20-25 pages of formal, revisable writing across the course of the semester. A significant amount of time may be devoted to re-writing essays, so as to develop first drafts into final versions. In-class writing, short homework exercises, and workshopping of student work may be included. Individual meetings to discuss each student's papers should be expected.
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Class Number
1574
Credits
3
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| Storytelling, Narrative, and Design |
Liberal Arts |
2198 (001) |
Fall 2024 |
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Description
This studio symposium joins an exploration of narrative theory (narratology) with workshops where students write and make their own narrative art across different forms and media. Narratology is concerned with big questions about storytelling: What are the fundamental concepts of narrative? How do narratives work, and how do we process and understand them? What are the key differences between alternative narrative forms? How do differences in media, genre, and cultural traditions inform how stories are designed and understood? How have narrative forms changed over time, up to our digital present? Even: what is the function of narrative and are we ever outside it? Why do we share a common drive to tell stories in and with our making? We will read foundational theoretical texts (from Plato to twentieth-century and contemporary authors) and discuss them in relation to mythic, literary, cinematic, graphic, and serial narratives. Students will bring new ideas to the studio, where they will develop and complete narrative works individually and collectively.
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Class Number
1659
Credits
3
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| Storytelling, Narrative, and Design |
Undergraduate Studies |
2198 (001) |
Fall 2024 |
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Description
This studio symposium joins an exploration of narrative theory (narratology) with workshops where students write and make their own narrative art across different forms and media. Narratology is concerned with big questions about storytelling: What are the fundamental concepts of narrative? How do narratives work, and how do we process and understand them? What are the key differences between alternative narrative forms? How do differences in media, genre, and cultural traditions inform how stories are designed and understood? How have narrative forms changed over time, up to our digital present? Even: what is the function of narrative and are we ever outside it? Why do we share a common drive to tell stories in and with our making? We will read foundational theoretical texts (from Plato to twentieth-century and contemporary authors) and discuss them in relation to mythic, literary, cinematic, graphic, and serial narratives. Students will bring new ideas to the studio, where they will develop and complete narrative works individually and collectively.
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Class Number
1664
Credits
3
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| Masterworks: Borges's Fictions |
Liberal Arts |
3110 (003) |
Spring 2024 |
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Description
A detailed, intensive study of a small number of recognized masterworks that have demonstrated their power outside of their own national and historical context. Recent examples: Dante's Divine Comedy, Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov.
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Class Number
1479
Credits
3
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| Top: Ecocriticism |
Liberal Arts |
3192 (001) |
Fall 2024 |
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Description
Detailed and ongoing study of thematic material related to climate crisis, including historic and present-day responses in literature. The period and works may vary. To be determined, based on the specific course being offered under this topic. Assignments will vary depending on the instructor and topic, including readings, reading responses, essays, mid-terms, and finals.
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Class Number
2256
Credits
3
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