| Title: | Freshman Tutorial |
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| Course Section Number: | FRT-101-10 |
| Department: | Freshman Tutorial |
| Description: | One Helluva Hike: Lessons on How to Live from Dante's Divine Comedy Jill Lamberton who teaches writing and literature courses, is an avid traveler and will return to Wabash in the fall of 2018 after a year in Italy. Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy is one of the great literary achievements of the Western world. Written between about 1308 and 1320 CE, and composed in Italian when great literature was written in Latin, Dante desperately wanted to be ranked among the greatest writers, yet he wasn't necessarily governed by other peoples' rules. The poem-which we will read in English translation-describes a pilgrim named "Dante" who finds himself lost in the middle of his life and begins a journey to get himself unlost. But to find what, exactly? Himself. His first love, "the woman who got away." Revenge. Home. Salvation. God. Each of these answers is correct, yet none is sufficient. The Divine Comedy is a pilgrimage narrative, and, like all pilgrimage narratives, the ultimate goal of spiritual enlightenment is only attainable through travel. You have to leave the comforts of home to find out who you are and how best to live your life. In this freshman tutorial we will travel with Dante through hell, purgatory, and heaven-but also deep into the world of Medieval Italy, learning something about the people, places, beliefs, and questions that moved the spiritual seekers of the middle ages. Assignments in the course will emphasize the speaking, reading, and writing skills necessary for college success, and there will also be one oral presentation. The summer reading for this course is a mystery novel set during the American Civil War-era called The Dante Club, by Matthew Pearl. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 23, 2018 |
| End Date: | December 15, 2018 |
| Meeting Information: |
08/23/2018-12/13/2018 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Baxter Hall, Room 114
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| Faculty: | Lamberton, Jill |
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