Courses

Seminar in Ethical Values (YR)

Section 5, Fall 16

Schedule Information

Enrollment: 12/12

Credits: 0

Course Description

This seminar will be devoted to Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. A masterwork of American literature, this book has everything: revenge, obsession, free will, nature, insane bosses, diverse workplaces, chowder, and whales. We will explore all this and more. Our fall sessions will be devoted to reading and discussing the novel itself. In the spring, we will read other works that reflect or adapt some themes of Melville’s novel. The course assumes no prior experience with Melville or Moby Dick. It is designed for students who would like to read this great American novel before they finish school.

Course Requirements

Exam Info:

Midterm Type (if any): None

Description: None

Final Type (if any): None

Description:

Written Work Product

Written Work Product:

Other Work

Other Course Details

Prerequisites: None Concurrencies: None

Mutually Exclusive With: None

Laptops Allowed: No

First Day Attendance Required: No

Course Notes:

Graduation Requirements

*Satisfies Writing Requirement: No

**Credits For Prof. Skills Requirement: No

Satisfies Professional Ethics: No

*Yes means professor requires everyone in the course to submit a substantial research paper (which is the requirement standard in Academic Policies), so no paperwork required to be submitted to SRO. No means student must timely submit paperwork to SRO if intending to use a paper in this course to satisfy the Writing Requirement.

**Yes indicates course credits count towards UVA Law’s Prof. Skills graduation requirement, not necessarily a skills requirements for any particular state bar.