Think Slow: Poetry Now!
This spring, we will approach poetry through the lens of slow looking, slow reading, slow composing and slow thinking, in a course that favors depth
March 25, 2023
This spring, we will approach poetry through the lens of slow looking, slow reading, slow composing and slow thinking, in a course that favors depth
Secrets loom large in William Styron’s masterful novel, and readers will need to reserve their judgments about the choices the characters face until the stories
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Everyone is translating all the time. By starting from this premise—that we are all translators, regardless of our fluency or lack thereof in other languages—students
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As the United States heads into a presidential election year, this course will put the headlines of the news cycle in historical perspective and challenge
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What is race? What is racism? How did the concept of race emerge and (how) has the understanding of what race means changed over time?
Sports act as a mirror that reflects who we were, who we are, and who we want to be. This class prepares students to be
The Nazi regime relied on long-standing strains of anti-Semitism as well as newer racial ideologies to gather support for their purposeful and highly systematic attempt
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