This is the humanities class, a 300 level literature course taught by the program’s director. This course included reading from numerous fields of study, both intensely academic books and highly rated best sellers. It also included two excursions, both to the L.A. Opera Billy Budd, based off the novella by Herman Melville. The first was one of the tech rehearsals for the opera, the second was the actual night out to the opera, which included a paid-for dinner by the program. A more detailed description will come soon in a Spring Semester blog post. (Which has been published now). I have attached the 4 papers I wrote for the class. I must apologize for the third and final short paper; I am aware that it is short coming in its arguments, and that should not reflect my ability to think through the books at an honors level, but rather how worn out and disgruntled I felt by situations regarding the class.

Rhetoric’s Triad – Shakespeare and Plato (Love and Rhetoric)

Step-by-step – Freud and Plato (Sexuality, Love and Logic)

An Imperfect Success – Drew Gilpin Faust and Melville (Language’s Imperfections)

I Say What I Mean – All authors studied: Shakespeare, Plato, Freud, Melville, Faust, Gordon, Davies and Brown (Tone in language and its influence)