Books:
- Michael Bérubé, Life as We Know It: A Father, a Family, and an Exceptional Child
- Mark Doty, Dog Years
- Margaret Edson, W;t
- Harriet McBryde Johnson, Too Late to Die Young: Nearly True Tales from a Life
- Jonathan M. Metzl, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
- Ruth L. Ozeki, My Year of Meats
Films (students are responsible for viewing independently):
- Marc Forster, dir., World War Z
- Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland, dirs., Still Alice
- Mike Nichols, dir., Wit
Additional readings (avail. on Fronter) by:
- Michel Foucault, Ann Jurecic, Timothy Campbell and Adam Sitze