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GFS 302 Live Deliberately: A Walden Experience

(4 credits)
Thoreau moved to Walden Pond, saying “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.” Students in this workshop style course do the same, critically examining their lives guided by themes of Walden, such as: simplicity, solitude, self-reliance, relationship with society, technology, and nature. Other thinkers and philosophers, past and present, join the discussion. In addition, crucial to Thoreau’s experiment was his determination of basic necessities before going to Walden; as such, students deliberately focus on planning and preparing for the end-of-semester 6 day backcountry camping trip, where they experience deliberate living firsthand. (Special travel fee applies.)

Prerequisite: Minimum of junior standing, application required.