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As part of its so-called core curriculum, Penn typically requires students in all schools to take a writing class. They kinda go out of their way to offer a variety of interesting options because writing is not everyone's thing. My class was "Man in Nature" and featured Thorough, Emerson, etc. It focused a lot on being in nature, which is also atypical for an English class, just not the kind of atypical that gets reported.

I read Thorough in high school. So it's not that atypical...

Surely you mean Thoreau...? Given that you read him in high school..

His name didn't appear that often...

Yes. I was tired when I wrote that.

I read Shakespeare in 6th grade and in grad school. You can study works at many different levels.

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