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Michael C.
Private tutor in Chicago, IL
Education
Amherst College, School of the Art Institute Chicago - First Year Grad
Experience
ACT- 32 // SAT - 2200 My first experiences tutoring were in undergrad where I aided students struggling in various classes, most in the subjects of Continental Philosophy, Linguistics and Literature. I also provided a writing workshop to help with essays and creative writing. All of these studies are available if needed. I offer two basic forms. (1) Close studies of any number of modern and post-structural philosophers (Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Deleuze and Derrida, etc.) wherein each session has an outline and a lesson plan and our time will be spent on close reading and concept analysis. (2) We may also directly follow a given syllabus or the material for a test and prepare for some concrete end. As mentioned before I also can help with Writing Skills, Grammar and Creative Writing, as well as grasping a wide range of complex modern and postmodern literature. My intent is to render important and difficult texts within the Western canon as clear and sensible. I use direct examples, references and every day objects and ideas to clarify opaque language. My hope is that we can reach not only a thematic and general understanding of texts but also create a strong use-value for concepts and explicate difficult structural ideas related more to grammar, semantics and vocabulary than content.
Subject Expertise
IB Philosophy HL, IB Philosophy SL, IB Theory of Knowledge, 12th Grade math, Philosophy