COLL 130 How to Read for Fun
What’s it like to get lost in a book, and why should we want to do so? More important, how can we do so—especially if the book (or poem or play or story) is challenging or outside of our comfort zone? As a class, we will explore these questions and develop a set of strategies—some more frivolous than others—that will help us engage different types of literature in different ways. As Jeffrey D. Wilhelm writes in “The Benefits of Reading for Pleasure” and in his ca-authored book Reading Unbound, reading for fun is fun…and so much for. It helps us “get lost” in another world, feel a sense of accomplishment when we untangle complex or new ideas, develop community and social connections, and imagine ourselves and our relationships with others in new ways. We will work to understand and develop each of these facets of reading for fun in this class.
Prerequisite
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Corequisite
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