This course will focus on the intersections of Russian literature, history, and culture in the works of such writers as Gogol, Turgenev, Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Pasternak, and Akhmatova. Readings will be challenging in terms of length and depth. In this course students will read the prose and poetry of England during a period that included great social change and two World Wars. The writers studied reexamine individual and social values in a society affected by upheaval. In this course students read such poets as Frost, Dickinson, Keats, Wordsworth, Shakespeare, Rich, Olds, Giovanni, and Bishop and make their own attempts at writing poetry.
Philosophy is the attempt to think clearly about puzzling matters.
During this course students develop the philosopher's habits of careful reading, open thinking, and precise writing about a variety of these puzzling questions. Readings are likely to include works and passages from Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Hume, Sartre, and Camus, as well as some Mesopotamian and Eastern texts. The Winsor School. All rights reserved.