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Course Description

In a time when many believe that contemporary events are unfolding in ways that bode ill for the future, dystopian classics are the focus of renewed interest. This course will be devoted to a careful, mature consideration of four such classics: Huxley’s Brave New World; Lewis’s It Can’t Happen Here; Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four; and Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, as we seek both to understand each text as a literary work originating in its own time and place and to glean possible insights into our own time and place.

Please read chapters 1–8 of Huxley’s Brave New World before the first class.

Notes

This Basic Program Online Discussion Course is conducted in exactly the same manner as an in-person Basic Program discussion course - except that participants join in from whatever location is convenient for them via an Internet-connect computer, tablet or mobile device.

Prerequisites

None.

Testimonials

“The course itself has been a fairly seamless recreation of the classroom experience from the Basic Program. All participants had a fair opportunity to express their views and ask questions, and the “online blackboard” was an effective tool for the teacher to present ideas and improve or confirm student understanding of the topic. Within two or three classroom sessions, I became accustomed to the online environment and speaking into the camera.” —Al K.
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