Freshman Seminar

Cervantes' "Don Quixote" (1605-1615) is the first great European novel and the most influential novel ever written.  It is also one of the funniest and most moving.  In this seminar we will read and discuss as much of it as we can.  The instructor will provide context and historical background and will guide conversation among members of the group. Students will each be expected to give a brief oral presentation.  The course offers students the opportunity to become experts in one of the foundational texts of world literature and to grapple with a literary guide for a moral life in an immoral world.