Students should bring to the course their accumulated prejudices about culture, a willingness to defend their beliefs in oral and written argument, and a high tolerance for unanswered questions. Speaking Shakespeare Susan Sweeney Poems, monologues, and scenes from Shakespeare will be studied for their sounds, vocabularies, poetic forms, rhetorical figures, dramatic structures, arguments, and ideas. Much like the best mysteries, these texts will reveal their secrets and teach us to speak them, since it is in speaking them that we best experience the dynamic human truths that, four hundred years later, no one still has said better than Shakespeare. Course restricted to Alison Scholars. An Honors Tutorial is an advanced study group in which a maximum of four students meet with a faculty member to consider classic literary and philosophic texts.
Tutorials meet once a week for approximately two hours of discussion and analysis of readings.
These discussions require significant independent study and preparation. Typically no examinations are given, but written work is required. Tutorials are open to any qualified junior or senior, but priority is given to Honors Degree candidates. Undergraduate Research Sustaining Research apprenticeship with faculty mentor. Limited to those appointed as Undergraduate Research Scholars in the Undergraduate Research Program.