College(Interdeptmnt) Courses 101 - FYS: Reading The New Yorker

Students will subscribe to this venerable and influential magazine and will closely examine the best items across departments, from the editorial board's short pieces on politics, to analytical articles, amusing vignettes, opinionated reviews and the famous cartoons (occasional readings will be drawn from the New Yorker's archive). Also included: selections from James Thurber's The Years with Ross, Brendan Gill's At the New Yorker, and Garrison Keillor's Love Me; and discussions of the history of the magazine and its impact on American letters, up to its recent Russian focus under the editorship of David Remnick. Writing exercises will be modeled on articles studied.

This course is limited to first-year students.