It is a residential program with a diverse and rich curriculum. Our programs are designed to give you a taste of what it’s like to study a subject at university level. All classes are carefully designed and taught by expert teachers in an optimal learning environment that stimulates academic exploration. And our carefully planned schedule ensures that the program not only meets the academic needs of participants, but also provides a unique university city experience through an abundance of extracurricular activities.
We will study the action novel as a style of literature. It is a dynamic and usually bloody genre whose characteristic features include:
- the heroes do not stand still, even when they find themselves at a fork in the main road, and are constantly moving – through the streets, from city to city, from country to country;
- a minimum of sense – even at a crossroads, the hero does not think, but acts on circumstances that are rarely justified at least by the fact that “the west is where the sun goes down”, a minimum of logic, no descriptions except for battles;
- the presence of a positive protagonist – the savior of the world, humanity, city, government. The hero is extraordinary, trained to fight, doomed to act in a situation of constant stress and danger, often finding himself in the thick of things by accident and always surviving;
- the presence of an antagonist – a negative hero who is opposed by a positive hero. The antagonist is usually very influential, rich, stupid, slightly out of his mind, wants to destroy the world, country, city, government, and lives to see the ending, either to die or go to prison;
- descriptions of fights, battles, traps for the hero, various weapons and military technologies make up two-thirds of the book;
- mountains of corpses and a sea of blood with descriptions of injuries, bruises, and torture are mandatory; and half of the corpses are from the villain, half from the positive hero.