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This is an environmental policy course with a focus on public action. The class will explore the dimensions of the production, use and disposal of plastics, including climate change impacts, alternatives to single-use plastic packaging, and the need for innovation. There will also be a focus on environmental justice.
This is an environmental policy course with a focus on public action. The class will explore the dimensions of the production, use and disposal of plastics, including climate change impacts, alternatives to single-use plastic packaging, and the need for innovation. There will also be a focus on environmental justice.
There are as many ways to tell a story as there are stories to tell — and, indeed, infinitely more than that. Do we, as Lewis Carroll’s King of Wonderland advises Alice, “Begin at the beginning . . . and go on till you come to the end: then stop”? Ought we draw up a traditional schematic, in the manner of the (in)famous Gustav Freytag, wherein an inciting
In his craft book Aspects of the Novel E.M. Forster makes a distinction between round and flat characters, stating that “the test of a round character is if it is capable of surprising in a convincing way.” In this class we will focus on how we can create characters that both surprise and convince the reader, examining how published writers build layered and
The novella is a pleasing narrative container, more flexible than the short story, less meandering than the full-length novel, and often composed with a kind of brilliant internal poetry. This rigorous course, part seminar, part fiction workshop, will be devoted on one hand to the study of fourteen postmodern and contemporary novellas; on the other to the production of
Reversing the typical shame around so-called "ESL" speakers, this course explores the rich history of modern and contemporary Anglophone literature written by authors who learned English as a second language or within a bi/multilingual context. This rigorous reading list is then used as a springboard for cultivating diverse voices and stories in the classroom.
Simone Weil wrote, “Attention in its highest form is the same thing as prayer.” In this craft course, we will explore attention as the fundamental liberators' medium of all art, and specifically, as the receptive foundation of poetry. By studying the mutually
“Music is something that you can’t see, and painting is something that you can’t hear...so they balance each other’.” (1)
William Robert Dixon (October 5, 1925 – June 16, 2010). This year the world will
