What Can I Get Out of This? Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics

"What actually happens in a college literature course, and what does it have to do with the world beyond the classroom? Telling the story of one eventful semester, this rich group portrait shows how 33 freshmen and their professor practice essential life skills as they wrestle with challenging books, consider the purposes of higher education, and confront their own skepticism. This humane account of the humanities in action takes us deep into the minds of people engaged in the business of figuring out how meaning flows through books, lives, the world--part of the essential work of being human that we all do at all times and in all kinds of places, not just in a college classroom"--