Course Description:

This course is designed for students about to enter college or planning on taking more college-oriented classes (such as AP History or English courses), as well as students who find that their high school classes don’t allow as much exploration and engagement as they’d like.

Students will choose a topic in the Humanities that interests them: Literature, Philosophy, History, etc. The course will center around a few books (or potentially plays, films, visual arts, etc.) that a student is interested in exploring in depth or needs to study for summer reading. We’ll do a combination of close guided readings, discussion about multiple levels and interpretations of those readings, and finally a thesis centered paper (written in multiple steps to practice the writing process expected in undergraduate studies). Students will get a great introduction to what is required in a college-level humanities seminar!