Honors Exam Reading List
Student List Alison Bechdel, Fun Home Gwendolyn Brooks, “Negro Hero,” “The Near-Johannesburg Boy,” “Riot,” and “The Sonnet-Ballad” Emily Dickinson, “I Felt a Fu...
Month: November 2016
Neil Gaiman and Tom Holland Review The Buried Giant
In his NY Times review of The Buried Giant, Neil Gaiman makes an argument about genre–his genre: “Fantasy is a tool of the storyteller. It is a way ...
Annotated Bibliography Guidelines
Once you have completed your proposal and received feedback (from your writing group and from me), the next phase of your research projects will be to compile a...
Barack
Barack Obama, like Emily Dickinson and Ralph Ellison before him, is thinking about what it means to be a human organism, trying to get along with other human or...
Reading List for the Honors Exam–Our Half
After reading through our list of finalists for the exam, I decided to propose a selection of ten, based on two factors: 1.) Texts that you many of you were ent...
Letter from President Matos
A few days have elapsed since the end of an election season that many have characterized as divisive, mean-spirited, and violent. Now begins the difficult task ...
Research Proposal Guidelines
Your proposal will be composed of three paragraphs, written in response to the prompts below. First paragraph: Name and describe your primary sources—a text or ...
Savarese and Zunshine on “Mind Reading”
RJS: Our profession, like the medical or science profession, isn’t particularly good at admitting, “I was wrong” or “!ere’s a better way of proceeding.” And so,...