PH380 Tolkien3 credit(s)
This course 1) engages learners with a) Tolkien’s biography, b) his practice of philology, c) an array of critical works about Tolkien’s biography and his academic and artistic practices, d) 2 samples of his own critical writings, e) 2 samples of his original poetic work and even f) questions about his relation to philosophy and theology, with special attention to the ways that g) character and virtue/vice manifest in the legendarium.
As such it requires 2) core academic activity in a variety of complementary ways: a) critical reading, b) advanced informal writing skills in a Black N Red notebook (BNR), c) engaging in a variety of active modes of participation in class meetings, including (but not limited to) the Think, Pair, Share (TPS), Small Group Work (SGW) and Large Group Seminar (LGS), and d) orally presenting a data-driven, interdisciplinary, technology-enhanced final presentation about one’s research into 1a-1g.
The course refines/extends personal interests, capacities, and knowledge, builds from and on general knowledge, and supposes prior competency for analysis, evaluation, interpretation, and synthesis.
Additionally, this course also aims to rediscover the increasingly lost art of face to face human interaction and civil discourse by engaging in the practice of asking and answering questions about creativity and inquiry, as discovered in academic texts, and in dialogue with other learners on a daily basis (and even with some of the scholarly experts via zoom).
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