Instructor: Karina Gafford
Length: 13 weeks
Schedule: September - December 2010
Open to: HEROES Members
Tuition: $550
The Young Scholar and Society is an online reading and writing workshop with the intent of teaching young scholars the fundamentals of writing with an emphasis on learning the skills to interact with peers in online academic discussions. The objectives of this course are to encourage students to explore their areas of interest while developing the rhetorical skills necessary for their future academic and career endeavors. This course is designed to engage young scholars in academic discussion with peers, help develop deductive and analytical skills, find connections within their readings to the world around them, and master the tools of writing to best display their learning gains. Students will share some assignments; however, each student will have the opportunity to select a reading pathway of his or her own interest. Pathway themes include science-fiction and fantasy, the evolution of scientific thought, mythology, war, or the AP Classical-Canon. Students should expect a supportive environment, constructive criticism, and moments of brilliance that emerge from good discussions and productive work.
Instructor: Karina Gafford
Length: 13 weeks
Schedule: September - December 2010
Open to: HEROES Members
Tuition: $550
This course is an online reading and writing workshop with the intent of providing young scholars the fundamental skills required to objectively analyze a work of science fiction, fantasy or magical realism, and engage in an online academic discussion with peers. Students will observe how authors present as fact the scientifically plausible, the sheer fanciful, and the absurd though conceivable. The objective of this course is to encourage students to develop their abstract thinking skills by defining reality in the scope of each work in order to better understand their own world. The course begins with a history of the three alter-realism genres, placing them within the realm of intellectual history. Students will have a work from each genre to study, during which the students will learn to identify the differences between each genre and the essentials elements involved in the creation of each work. Further readings will help the student identify the literary techniques of authors and the strategies applied in order to provide the young scholar with the toolkit to create his or her own piece of alter-reality writing.
HEROES members may register via the link they received via email.