English 24

Freshman Seminar: Reading Walden Carefully


Section Semester Instructor Time Location Course Areas
2 Spring 2012 Breitwieser, Mitchell
 M 2-3 14 Haviland Freshman Seminars

Book List

Thoreau, Henry: Walden

Description

As close and careful a reading of Thoreau's dense and enigmatic work as we can manage in the time that we have. Regular attendance and participation and five pages of writing will be required.

This 1-unit course may not be counted as one of the twelve courses required to complete the English major.

Other Recent Sections of This Course

Fall, 2013
24/1 Freshman Seminar: Shakespeare's <i>Twelfth Night</i> Nelson, Alan H.
24/2 Freshman Seminar: Shakespeare's <em>Hamlet</em> Paley, Morton D.
24/3 Freshman Seminar: Reading Art Spiegelman's <em>Maus I & II</em> Wong, Hertha D. Sweet
Spring, 2013
24/1 Freshman Seminar: Shakespeare's Sonnets Nelson, Alan H.
24/2 Freshman Seminar: Mark Twain's <em>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court</em> and <em>The Prince and the Pauper</em> Hutson, Richard
24/3 Freshman Seminar: The Arts at Berkeley and Beyond Padilla, Genaro M.
Fall, 2012
24/1 Freshman Seminar: Reading Art Spiegelman's Maus I & II Wong, Hertha D. Sweet
24/2 Freshman Seminar: Margaret Atwood’s Dystopian Fictions Snyder, Katherine
24/3 Freshman Seminar: The Arts at Berkeley and Beyond Padilla, Genaro M.
Spring, 2012
24/1 Freshman Seminar: Bullets Across the Bay--Detective Narratives Set in San Francisco Hutson, Richard
Fall, 2011
24/1 Freshman Seminar: Reading Walden Carefully Breitwieser, Mitchell
24/2 Freshman Seminar: Procrastination: Theory and Practice Schweik, Susan
24/3 Freshman Seminar: Two Novels by Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility and Emma Paley, Morton D.
24/4 Freshman Seminar: David Copperfield Tracy, Robert
24/5 Freshman Seminar Padilla, Genaro M.
Spring, 2011
24/1 Freshman Seminar: The Arts at Berkeley Altieri, Charles F.
24/2 Freshman Seminar: Reading Walden Carefully Breitwieser, Mitchell

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