This is a summer session class at Northwestern University
Enrollment is open to anyone with a high school diploma.
You receive Northwestern University college credits for this class (put this class on your resume).
It is conducted in Evanston and online.
It meets five weeks in the evening (great for working people).
Ask your employer about your tuition reimbursement program.
See details below:
ENGLISH 110-CN Sec. 25 
Writing Seminar I: Transforming the Self: An American
Obsession
CAESAR Class Number: 41374
5 weeks,
EVAN,
6/22 - 7/20
W 6 - 9pm
Leslie Fischer
This course will be held in Kresge Hall room 2315.
In this course, students gain experience
with fundamental rhetorical structures such as comparison/contrast,
cause and effect, and classification, while addressing questions of
metamorphosis and transformation. We look at the modern
self-help/transformation phenomenon and its historical roots in the late
19th century. For instance, students might compare and contrast one
school of thought that views the task of self-development as similar to
the task of a small business (e.g., Tom Peters) with the views of others
who take a romantic view the self as a work of art in progress. To fuel
the exploration, students read analysts and scholars who have commented
on the self-transformation phenomenon, as well as draw on sources in
popular culture such as self-help books, advice columns, and reality-
and talk-TV shows. This course combines classroom lecture and discussion
with an online component. Students must have ready access to the
Internet.
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