2025 Summer Classes
Course List
Enrollment is now open for summer classes! I’m very pleased to partner with two excellent institutions for a variety of classes. For more information or to pre-register, check out the links below.
Logic
Logical Fallacies, Biases, and Puzzles (June 4 – July 23)
Both new and returning logic students will hone their skills against a series of real-world scenarios and scaffolded puzzles. They’ll confront the most common pitfalls in reasoning, including confirmation bias, availability bias, the fallacy of affirming the consequent, equivocation, and appeals to irrelevant modes of persuasion. Along the way, they’ll learn (or review) good deductive argument patterns. The course will conclude with two of the hardest puzzles in contemporary logic.
Time: Wednesdays, 4-5pm Eastern
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Writing
Essay Voyage Intensive Seminar (June 3 – July 15)
For students 11-13, this seminar provides a “sneak peek” into middle-school-level essay writing. Students complete scaffolded assignments including a book report, two short essays, and an essay revision Because this course is writing-intensive, in-person meetings occur every other week, with exchanges of feedback by email between each meeting. Students are not required to attend the class meetings, and recordings will be available.
Time: Every other Tuesday, 1-2pm Eastern
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MLA Intensive Seminar (June 4 – July 16)
For students 14-16, this seminar provides advanced practice with independent research. Students learn how to find, document, and evaluate academic sources in the context of crafting their own thesis statements. Assignments include two short research assignments and a capstone research essay with scaffolded MLA requirements. Because this course is research-intensive, in-person meetings occur every other week, with exchanges of feedback by email between each meeting. Students are not required to attend the class meetings, and recordings will be available.
Time: Every other Wednesday, 1-2pm Eastern
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Poetry Writing Camp (June 3 – July 25)
This 7-week virtual summer camp enables middle school students and advanced elementary students to train their poetic ears while experimenting with rhyme and rhythm. Students will write poems in a variety of styles and will practice techniques for memorizing and reciting the poems they enjoy.
Time: Tuesdays, 4-5pm Eastern
Advanced Poetry Workshop – Asynchronous (June 2 – July 25)
This course is designed for working adults and advanced high school students who would like to polish their poetry skills on their own time. In an asynchronous forum, students participate in weekly text-based discussions to analyze classical poems together and comment constructively on each other’s poetry. Students also learn about the “business” side of poetry, how the poetry market currently works, and strategies for submitting poems for publication.
Time: Asynchronous with weekly assignment deadlines.
Time Table
| Times (Eastern) | Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday |
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| Async | Advanced Poetry Workshop – Asynchronous | |||
| 1pm – 2pm |
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Essay Voyage Seminar (11-14) | MLA Intensive Seminar (13-18) |
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| 4-5pm Eastern | Poetry Writing Camp (11-14) | Logical Fallacies, Biases, and Puzzles (11-18) | ||