<p>My child chose readings in world literature and loved it. She had an excellent professor and got great feedback regarding her writing and analysis of the literature. I believe that she read Frankenstein, Faust, some Tolstoy, etc. If the course interests you, by all means take it. She found it to be a lot of reading and writing and by no means a free ride. However, she loved it, worked very hard and got an A.</p>
<p>The only hum I don't know of anybody liking is Reading Cultures.</p>
<p>Oh man, these Chicago threads just fill me with the greatest nostalgia...I love how some of the best things at U of C (apparently) are just the same now as they were thirty-odd years ago. I don't think the reading lists for Self, Culture and Society or HBC have changed.</p>
<p>Having spent the intervening decades in the less-highly-evolved centers of undergraduate intellectual power in this country (C... and N...H...) may I just tell you children to enjoy what you have -- as many of you seem to do. </p>
<p>Forgive me for being so middle-aged - as a penance, I give you this:
Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita
mi ritrovai per una selva oscura,
ch</p>
<p>:-)</p>
<p>I'm missing HBC already.</p>