Scholar Weekend Program

 

Take Your Journey: The Mythology of the Hero

 

The wolf pack howls at your back as you flee.  You burst over the hill, then flail wildly for a branch to keep from hurtling over the cliff to the waters far below.  You miss and sail out into thin air.  This is it – all your dreams end here, all your hopes crushed.  You plummet, hit the water like a stone and sink beneath its churning mass.  Time to give up, a voice whispers. Time to accept the inevitable.  But something in you rebels.  Deep within, you find breath and courage.  Up you fight and push through the pain to the distant surface.  You pull yourself from the water and stand like an oak tree to eye the wolves high above you on the cliff. They will not have you this day.

 

Heroes and heroines show up in all forms of literature and popular culture.  Katniss Everdeen, Ulysses, Luke Skywalker, Frodo Baggins, Mulan, and Harry Potter all take journeys on their path to hero status.  In this course, a published author from Writers in the Schools (WITS) will help you examine this genre of writing and explore what makes heroes and their journeys successful.  Who do they meet along the way?  What challenges do they face?  You will look at historical heroes and, with your instructor’s guidance, create your own heroes, develop their character traits, and design their journeys.  You’ll leave the workshop with an epic poem, graphic novel, or short story about your hero and the epic journey undertaken.

 

Session

 

March 31 and April 1, 2012

 

Tuition

$395 ($375 - Registered on or before March 12, 2012)

(includes housing, food, and academic activities)

 

$345 ($325 - Registered on or before March 12, 2012)

(Day student - includes food and acacemic activities)

 

 

 

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