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Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments ix 1 Introduction: How to Succeed in College and Beyond: The Art of Learning 1 Part I Beginnings 13 2 How to Prepare for College 15 3 The College Olympics: How to Choose the Right College and How to Get the Right College to Choose You 24 Part II The College Experience 39 4 Twenty Suggestions for Incoming College Freshmen 41 5 Nineteen Suggestions for College Sophomores 52 6 Suggestions for College Juniors: Balancing the Joy and Practicality of Learning 57 7 Making the Most of Your Senior Year in College 66 8 Planning for the Future: Suggestions for Seniors Graduating from College 72 Part III Further Essentials 79 9 Seventeen Suggestions for How to Choose Classes in College 81 10 The Greek System: Should You Join a Fraternity or Sorority? 87 11 More Thoughts on the College Experience: Brief Observations and Suggestions 98 12 Growing Young Adults: What Parents Need to Know About Their Children in College 105 Part IV The Value of the Humanities 109 13 Why Study the Humanities? 111 14 Do the Humanities Help Us Understand the World in Which We Live? 117 15 What to Do with a Bachelor of Arts in English 124 16 Does It Make Sense to Pursue a Humanities Doctorate? The Pros and Cons of Graduate Education in the Humanities 131 Part V Perspectives of a Professor 141 17 Are Teaching and Research Mutually Exclusive? 143 18 The Classroom as Opportunity: Teaching Students How to Enjoy and Understand Literature, Read Closely, Write Lucidly, and Think Independently 148 19 Changing the World One Step at a Time: Comparing Contemporary Students with Those of the Explosive 1968–1970 Period 162 Works Cited and Select Bibliography 174 Index 181

About the Author :
Daniel R. Schwarz is Frederic J. Whiton Professor of English Literature and Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow at Cornell University. He is a highly-regarded, author, a master teacher, an influential literary critic, and a regular contributor to the Huffington Post on Higher Education. His recent books include Reading the European Novel to 1900 (2014), Crises and Turmoil at the New York Times, 1999-2009 (2012, 2014), and In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century (2008), both published by Wiley Blackwell.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781118974827
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Art of Learning
  • ISBN-10: 1118974824
  • Publisher Date: 21 Dec 2015
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 208


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