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St. Luke’s Announces the Literary Scholars Program
The St. Luke’s English Department is proud and excited to announce the creation of a Literary Scholars Program, a humanities-based intensive course of study that will focus on literary research, analysis and interpretation. Students will have an unprecedented opportunity to pursue scholarship, creativity and innovation in an independent project that will showcase their study of interdisciplinary topics in a paper and at a Scholars Symposium presentation in the spring. The course will underscore a student’s talent in the humanities and their academic energy in pursuing a project of intellectual heft and distinction.
Generated by English Department Chair, Jenn Sproule, and veteran teacher Susan Doran, the course will be offered as a senior project, and the two women will serve as mentors and advisors for the student.
Speaking of the enterprise, Jenn Sproule remarked, “With every literary work we read, we understand just a little bit more about ourselves and the beautiful, complex, crazy world in which we live. I look forward to working with students as they pose critical questions and mine literature and history or the arts for the answers they seek.”
Details regarding the program requirements will be shared with Upper School students at class meetings and in a formal letter to parents.
Long a champion of the arts, Susan Doran, reflecting on our current times, commented “The primacy of the humanities—the books, the art, and the music of civilization—has never been more important than in our complex era. Words and ideas are engines of critical thinking, and this program is designed to give the student a rich and open field for creation.”
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Generated by English Department Chair, Jenn Sproule, and veteran teacher Susan Doran, the course will be offered as a senior project, and the two women will serve as mentors and advisors for the student.
Speaking of the enterprise, Jenn Sproule remarked, “With every literary work we read, we understand just a little bit more about ourselves and the beautiful, complex, crazy world in which we live. I look forward to working with students as they pose critical questions and mine literature and history or the arts for the answers they seek.”
Details regarding the program requirements will be shared with Upper School students at class meetings and in a formal letter to parents.
Long a champion of the arts, Susan Doran, reflecting on our current times, commented “The primacy of the humanities—the books, the art, and the music of civilization—has never been more important than in our complex era. Words and ideas are engines of critical thinking, and this program is designed to give the student a rich and open field for creation.”
St. Luke’s School is a secular (non-religious), private school in New Canaan, CT for grades 5 through 12 serving over 40 towns in Connecticut and New York. Our exceptional academics and diverse co-educational community foster students’ intellectual and ethical development and prepare them for top colleges. St. Luke’s Leading with Humanity curriculum builds the commitment to serve and the confidence to lead.
