Welcome to Our First-Year Seminar

Syllabus

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Quotes

Explore the pages on the site. Sign up on the Student Profiles page (there are instructions under the "Help"button to the left).

Visit the "Assignments" page regularly to keep up on what to prepare for class.  And PLEASE make whatever arrangements you must to arrive in class on time. You cannot count on the T to be on schedule and to run without incident.

***Mark your calendar and come hear our fourth writer, 21 year-old Faïza GUÈNE, speak about her work at the Healy Library, 5th floor, on Tuesday October 31st at 5pm. Talk in French, translated into English by yours truly, Q&A, book signing, reception...

***November 9: deadline for Pass/Fail option and for Withdrawal. See me if you have any questions about these options or their consequences.

There's a new page of QUOTES from our writers, and from others, dealing with some of the themes of the course. Check it out when you have a minute...

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."   George Bernard Shaw

"Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem."    W. Somerset Maugham

"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."  G. H. Hardy

"The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself."  Oscar Wilde

"People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest."  Hermann Hesse