I started taking a couple of units
through Coursera over the Summer. My favourite unit is Fantasy and Science Fiction:The Human Mind, Our Modern World
by Professor Eric Rabkin
from the University of Michigan. One of the things I wanted to work
on with these units is my written argument skills, as they're the
area that needs further honing to get me through the PhD candidacy
process.
So what I love about this unit is
how grueling it is – there are ten set texts, and each week
requires a 270-320 word essay on the week's text. The turn around
time and brevity of each essay really has been forcing me to develop
and articulate my arguments with great efficiency.
Over the next couple of months I'll be
posting my short essays on the following texts here:
- Grimm — Children's and Household Tales (Lucy Crane translation with Walter Crane illustrations)
- Carroll — Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass
- Stoker — Dracula
- Shelley — Frankenstein
- Hawthorne & Poe — Stories and Poems
- Wells — The Island of Dr. Moreau, The Invisible Man, "The Country of the Blind," "The Star"
- Burroughs & Gilman — A Princess of Mars & Herland
- Bradbury — The Martian Chronicles
- LeGuin — The Left Hand of Darkness
- Doctorow — Little Brother
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