North Dakota and Great Plains Literature
May 8 – June 5, 2021
$300/person
North Dakota is my home and though it perplexes me at times, I have a deep love of the Great Plains and North Dakota in particular. By the time we begin we should have access to advance copies of my new book, The Language of Cottonwoods: Essays on the Future of North Dakota. This will serve as a starting point for our explorations.
Eric Sevareid called North Dakota “a large rectangular blank spot in the nation’s mind.” Most people regard it as flyover country. It is the last and least visited state. It was once the most agrarian state in the nation, but now family agriculture is slipping away and we are not sure what the future will look like in a place that nobody moves to and represents an acquired taste.
Face it. This is your one chance to come to terms with North Dakota. You won’t find North Dakota on Great Courses!! Explore the most improbable of states with a passionate lover of the northern Great Plains.
Class sessions for this four-week course will be held via Zoom on Saturday mornings May 8 – June 5, 2021 (four Saturdays, time TBD, no class Memorial Day weekend) with Zoom office hours Wednesday evenings.
