We learn how to teach when stories teach us how to learn. Through earnest discussion of the form and content of select short fiction and poetry, this course will uncover how authors speak by means of imagery, what special meaning literature conveys, and why the exercise of imagination forms a necessary part of a liberal education, with the goal of sharpening our sense of purpose when we read.
We will read: Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving, The Old Apple-Dealer by Nathaniel Hawthorne, A Lickpenny Lover by O’Henry, Dalyrimple Goes Wrong by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and In Another Country by Ernest Hemingway.
