Junior Honors Seminar: Chaucer's "Troilus and Cressyde"
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TR 10:30-12
Chaucer's most celebrated poem (apart from his Canterbury inclinations), "Troilus and Cressyde" is without a doubt one of the most significant poems of the English Middle Ages. As a way of preparation for the Honors thesis, this course will use Chaucer's poem as a vehicle for discussing topics in literary research, writing, theory, and bibliographical innuendo. This course is only open to Juniors who have applied for the Honors program (please see e-mail message sent to all majors) and promissd to be an informative journey into what the profession of academia is all about. Class requirements: oral reports, research assignments, group work, discussion, teaching segments, and a research paper (20-25 pages). Students who do well in this course will be given the option of writing an Honors thesis in their Senior year (and will be well prepared to do so).
updated 2006-04-13
