Penn Summer

New sections just added! Summer courses in: Economics, Spanish, Anthropology, Gender Studies, Sociology, Math, Linguistics, Writing, Russian and Eastern European Studies, Astrology, and Health & Society. https://www.sas.upenn.edu/summer/courses

Explore the literature of medieval England through Geoffrey Chaucer's great work, The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer's magnificent anthology includes the bawdy Miller's Tale (a college student seduces a townsman's wife), the shocking Pardoner's Tale (a preacher confesses that he is fraud), the disturbing Prioress's Tale (Jews ritually murder a Christian boy), and the moralistic Clerk's Tale (a despotic lord marries a humble peasant girl). Some concerns of the course will include t...he competing values of aristocratic culture, the relationship between genre, gender and social class, Chaucer's meditations on history and tradition, his classical and continental inheritance (via Dante, Petrarch, and Ovid), and the peculiarities of medieval authorship and performance.We will also delve into recent and classic Chaucer criticism and explore some modern rewritings of Chaucer. See more

Sections just added for these summer classes! ASTR 001 920 HSOC 002 910 LING 001 920... MATH 170 921 SOCI 001 920 MATH 240 911 SPAN 140 922 REES 155 920 GSWS 002 920 WRIT 030 903 ANTH 003 921 ECON 212 910. For the full list of summer courses at Penn, visit: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/summer/courses

This summer explore common conceptions of the world and tease out politically compelling, ethically important, and personally enriching paths to worldmaking through the study of World Literature. In this Summer II course, students will read authors such as Oswald de Andrade, Juan José Saer, Jean Rhys, J. M. Coetzee, Mia Couto, Roberto Bolaño, Clarice Lispector, and João Guimarães Rosa.... For more information: https://bit.ly/2Wv7O08

Explore masterpieces of 19th-century Russian literature this summer! Examine questions of class, cultural transfers, gender, representation and subjectivity in 19th century Russia, and read beautiful novels by such literary geniuses as Pushkin, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, and others. Class starts May 26. For additional information, https://bit.ly/3f5IQNm