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CRWR0389A-S17

The Contemplative Essay

The Contemplative Essay
In this course we will write personal narratives and essays based on our own life experience, using the standard workshop format and a one-hour required weekly lab in Basic Mindfulness, a form of Burmese Vipassana meditation. Essays will emphasize fact, as well as insight into work, life, and writing. Readings will illustrate previous writers’ contemplative experiences, as well as matters of craft, including works by Michel de Montaigne, Rainer Maria Rilke, William James, TS Eliot, Eihei Dogen, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rebecca Solnit, David Abram, Annie Dillard, and Gary Snyder. (ENAM 0170 or approval required) 3 hrs. lect./1 hr. lab.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
21890
Subject Code:
CRWR
Course Number:
0389
Section Identifier:
A

Course

CRWR 0389

All Sections in Spring 2017

Spring 2017

CRWR0389A-S17 Lecture (Shaw)