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Class number:
3298
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Title: Walden |
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Department: English |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 13 |
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Available seats: 2 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 8, 2026 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 23, 2026 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: WF: 8:30AM-9:45AM, 115V - 106 |
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Instructor(s): Hager, Christopher |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
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Note: For English majors, this course fulfills the post-1800, elective, and additional literature or film requirements. For all students, it fulfills the College’s HUM requirement. |
Course Description:
Henry David Thoreau is one of the most familiar yet least understood figures in American intellectual history. He is, in fact, several figures at once: a pioneer of social protest, an intrepid (if sometimes myopic) student of North America's Indigenous history, a naturalist whose data is used in 21st-century climate science, as well as a writer and philosopher. This course takes one book--WALDEN, a capacious, unruly, often cryptic blend of memoir, nature writing, spiritual reflection, and social commentary--as the starting point for an intellectual exploration that ranges from Thoreau's medieval Japanese precursor Kamo No Chomei to ecological and philosophical debates raging today. Students will get to follow--or chart for themselves--one of the many paths of inquiry Thoreau's work inspires. |