You may do up to two of the extra credit options. If successfully completed, each will contribute one point towards your final grade.

Requirements:
– Attend the event.
– Submit to the professor a two-page (typed, double-spaced) reflection on the event. In particular, you should note how any of what you heard relates to our class and the ideas we’ve been discussing.
– Reflections should be submitted within two class periods of the event.
– To receive credit, reflections should demonstrate individual and thoughtful engagement with the ideas presented at the event (not simply summary) and be clearly written, with attention to spelling, grammar, punctuation, word choice, and proofreading.

Options:

1. CUNY Writers Against Austerity. Sunday, March 20; 4-7pm, at the Cooper Union (submit by 3/28).
2. 

2. “A Reading and Conversation with Amitav Ghosh,” on Tuesday, March 22 at 5:45 pm, with a reception @ 5 pm. (submit reflection by 3/30)

3. From Baruch Seminar to Nationwide Critical Acclaim: The Harman Writer-in-Residence Program Welcomes Yelena Akhtiorskaya

Thursday, April 21st at 6:00 pm
(submit by 5/2)

Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch Performing Arts Center

As an undergraduate student in Harman Writer-in-Residence Francisco Goldman‘s fall 2005 creative writing seminar, Yelena Akhtiorskaya took first prize in the short story competition. Nine years later, her first novel, Panic in a Suitcase,was among the New York Times’ 100 Notable Books of 2014.

This panel, now in its eighth year as part of the PEN World Voices festival, and free to Baruch students and professors, brings Akhtiorskaya and Goldman back together to be joined by renowned Mexican writers Alvaro Enrigue, author of Sudden Deathand Valeria Luiselli, author of The Story of My Teeth, for a discussion of classic works of literature that have had a deep influence on their work. Sponsored by Baruch’s Great Works and Harman Writer-in-Residence Programs and the PEN World Voices Festival.