Course Reflection

As I reflect on this course as a whole, I can take a lot away from it. First off, I can definitely say that I have never studied or focused on place as much as I did in this class. It has benefited me greatly because it allowed me not only to see how place has had a great affect on my life, but also how place has greatly affected the lives of authors like Sanders, Dillard, Woolf, Gilman, etc. Each of these authors helped me to assess how my life could have been different had I grown up in a different time period, setting, family, culture, and so on. Another aspect of the class that I liked was the variation of different types of writing throughout the semester between novels, short-stories, plays, and essays. As a class based off of literary works I think it is important to implement various forms of writing. Also, I feel that I profited greatly from the written assignments we had to perform. I had never done close readings in the form of a short and long paper, but I think they are beneficial in terms of strengthening the skills of analysis and expansion of analysis. The creative writing assignment was also useful because it allowed us to interpret the style of various characters and authors from the semester (not to mention it was a more enjoyable paper to write!). All in all I learned a great deal from this class. It helped me improve in the areas of writing, analyzing, and class discussion, and allowed me to evaluate how the theme of place has affected my life.

P.S. Good luck to everyone next semester. It's been fun!