What Can I Get Out of This?: Teaching and Learning in a Classroom Full of Skeptics

A moving story from a formidable teacher that doubles as a guide to teaching the humanities today.

At a time when college students and their parents often question the "return on investment" from humanities courses, accomplished feature writer and English professor Carlo Rotella invites us into the minds of a group of skeptical first-year students who are ultimately transformed by a required literature class.

In What Can I Get Out of This? he follo...