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What Can I Get Out of This?|Carlo Rotella

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

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A Forbes Best Higher Education Book Of 2025

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 follows thirty-three students through his class to provide an intimate look at teaching and learning from their perspectives as well as his own. The students' reluctance--"How does this get me a job?"--transforms into insight as they wrestle with challenging books, share ideas, discover how to think critically, and form a community. In all these ways, they learn how to extract meaning from the world around them, an essential life skill. Confronting skeptics of higher education, this compassionate and inspiring book reveals the truth of what students actually experience in college.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780520416567
  • ISBN-10: 0520416562
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Publish Date: September 2025
  • Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.8 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
  • Page Count: 224

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