Honors College World Literature

The purpose of Honors College literature

Honors College literature is designed to foster the following qualities (with thanks to Prof. Emeritus Robert Grudin of the UO English Department):

• Eloquence, and the appreciation for it
• Compassion, and the ability to identify with others
• Analytic instruments for interpreting texts and analogous phenomena
• A sense of history, not just as something past but persistent
• Distinguishing the coherent and incoherent
• An expanded sense of one's alternatives in life
• An expanded sense of one's social responsibilities
• Linguistic self-consciousness: the ability to understand language as a social construct and determinant
• A profound respect for the value of communication
• An alertness to interest-driven rhetoric
• Self-knowledge, self-inquiry, and self-critique

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This page created by Louise M. Bishop | Last updated 7 January 2002