Prizewinners: Nobelistas

The photo shows a smiling Toni Morrison at the podium during her keynote address at the American Library Association General Opening Session in 2010.

Photo of Toni Morrison, one of thirteen women who have won a Nobel Prize in Literature. (Courtesy of the American Library Association on Flickr. Creative Commons license BY-NC-SA.)

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MIT Course Number

21L.315

As Taught In

Spring 2014

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

This half-semester Samplings course, worth six instead of the typical twelve credits, drew attention to the thirteen female Nobel laureates. As the MIT Literature website explains, Samplings serve students looking for "a less intensive, more discussion and reading oriented way of continuing literary study." Secondly, "they allow the Literature Faculty to offer occasional subjects that cannot be permanently and regularly offered. Finally, they are a site of experimentation—a way of trying out new authors and new themes."

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Wyn Kelley. 21L.315 Prizewinners: Nobelistas, Spring 2014. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare), http://ocw.mit.edu (Accessed). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA


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