Fundraising for Season 1 of My Online British Lit Course
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INTRO
The genesis of this project extends beyond my own fiscal considerations and towards the hope of generating content for a task which otherwise cost me tens of thousands of dollars, matriculating for credits necessary to gain admission to graduate studies. When I initially inquired at Providence College about gaining a teaching certificate, I was informed that I had to get undergraduate credits, something that I undertook in the public universities system prior to admission at PC.
In the course of expending some several thousand tuition dollars per credit, I came to understand that there is no reason why students should not have access to a lower-cost alternative.
Individual scholars on alternative education pathways should not be restrained unfairly by middle class tuition rates. Low-income, formerly incarcerated, and working poor people are entitled to this level of mature education and I refuse to accept the thesis to the contrary. As my great mentor Dr. Lloyd Matsumoto famously quipped about Brown University, “What makes cells divide so differently on the East Side?”
Nothing, just as there is nothing in the content of the standardized tests that cannot substitute for credits at a local university. These tests are not insurmountable and they can be passed using materials predominantly available in the public domain.
If you need to study for a standardized exam, it is my goal to offer content that will help you study the period spanning Beowulf to the Romantics based off this textbook. In order to explore the Modernists and after, I will include my own personally curated selection of lectures and other forms of media intended to reach until the start of the Millennium, taking into consideration topics such as post-colonial, feminist, queer, and postmodernist theory and major thinkers.
MATERIALS
Dr. John Matthews Manly, Univ. of Chicago. English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892), 2 vols.
Dr. William J. Long, Univ. of Chicago. English Literature: Its History and Its Significance For The Life Of The English-Speaking World.
I have included an audio recording of Dr. Long’s textbook narrated on LibriVox by Tony Oliva.
Click this link below to watch this Preview Lectures and register for the class!