February 28, 2003
Honors Curriculum at UMass Features Oprah-Like Book Club
Taking a page from Oprah Winfrey, several colleges have recently started their own book clubs.
At the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, all 1,200 students in the honors college participate in the "Dean's Book Course." No grades are awarded in the one-semester course, but each student must complete a project on a book that is the focus that semester. For example, one student created an index of names that appear in An Elegy for Iris, by John Bayley, and used it to write a guide to
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