Nature and Human Nature is the title of my morning class on Thursdays. It's hard to give a description of the course but the easiest way to describe the class is to say that it is a discussion on what, and if, the human nature resembles. It is a literature based course and we are reading a variety of books ranging from Gilgamesh to Shakespeare. It seems like a very complex class. I think that after a few weeks I'll have more to say about this course, but since I'm at the beginning, I don't have much more to say.
The professor, Dr. Frederick Turner, is very amicable. He is of British birth and, although this shouldn't matter, his accent makes it easy to listen to him for a long time. This is important because the class is 2 hours and 45 minutes. For more information, you can visit his blog at http://frederickturnerpoet.com/.
Currently we are reading Gilgamesh, which is an ancient epic. And by ancient, I mean ancient. The story was originally conceived in the period between Abraham and Noah. Below is a picture of an artifact from this era.
