Senior Tutorial Program
VI Form students with a demonstrated commitment to independent work have the option of taking a spring tutorial. Comprised of three students or fewer, tutorials are offered in all disciplines, and provide a culminating academic experience for seniors as they work closely with a faculty member on a topic of their particular interest. Tutorials meet slightly less frequently than regular classes, but are reading and writing-intensive. Students are required to write weekly essays which they read aloud, critique, and debate with their teachers and classmates, in the spirit of the Oxford tutorial system. The tutorial framework allows students a degree of academic independence that more closely approximates the collegiate experience, and an opportunity to further hone their analytical, problem-solving, and written and oral argumentation skills. More than 20 tutorials are offered each spring.
2020-21 Tutorial Offerings
- 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The American Dreams of John Steinbeck
- The Awakened Mind
- The Cinema Legacy of Film Noir
- The Civil Rights and Social Justice Movements
- Conspiracy Theories, Hoaxes, and Fake News
- Girls, Girls, Girls
- History of Jazz
- Holding the Mirror Up to Nature: The Past Played Out on the Stage
- Interpreting Contemporary American Short Fiction
- The Myth of Talent: Creativity as a Skill
- The Past Is Never Dead: Historical Narratives and Why They Matter in the Present
- Poets of Our Time
- Practical Wisdom
- Race and Racism in the United States: An Economic Perspective
- The Signal and the Noise: Alternative Music as Commentary on Social Issues, Global Ethics, and Life Itself
- Social Class and Human Dignity in the Stories of Chekov
- U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Latin America & Cuba — A Whole New Ballgame
- Writing Our Own Literature