Offered spring semester. Special attention is given to the roles of silence, complicity, and personal responsibility. Students complete a three-part project in which they investigate an aspect of the Holocaust. Guest speakers and films complement the material. Literary Voyages Honors 3 credits Exploration of the theme of the voyage as presented in selected literary works representing various cultural perspectives, using Homer s The Odyssey as the archetypal voyage poem.
Literal voyages serve as rites of passage leading to psychological growth.
Motifs subsumed within the more comprehensive voyage theme Beginnings, A Season in Hell, Self Discovery, Reconciliation and Renewal, and Reprise correspond to analogous life experiences. Students are asked to write essays on the voyage theme and to present ideas in a seminar format. They work in small response groups, learning how to give constructive criticism while coming to understand what their writing means to a variety of readers. All students receive practical training and experience in tutoring. Offered every semester.