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Beau S.
Private tutor in Boulder, CO
Education
I'm in the process of writing my senior thesis in the philosophy of literature to graduate with a liberal arts degree in philosophy.
Experience
I spent my senior year abroad at Oxford University, studying Plato, Shakespeare, Political Philosophy, and Religion, receiving high marks in all. Weekly, I read hundreds of pages and wrote at least one eight-page scholarly essay, sometimes two. My favorite literary genre to write is creative non-fiction, the stuff of Joan Didion and David Foster Wallace. If you'd like, I will send you one of my pieces. I've read ceaselessly since I began to love literature -- from Dante, Rilke, and Montaigne in English to Jorge Louis Borges and Gabriel Garcia Marquez in Spanish. As for my Spanish language expertise, I grew up in Mexico, making Spanish my first language. I hope to attend the National University of Mexico (UNAM) to study a graduate degree in Spanish literature. Apart from my emphasis on language and literature, I studied classical piano, attending a music school in Ohio and a conservatory in Morelia, Michoacán, México. I've placed at many competitions, including Second Prize at the Young Artist Concerto Competition and won some, including the concerto competition at my school, where I excelled in Music Theory and Aural Skills. I've accompanied countless other musicians and supplied the music at over a dozen weddings. I improvise in jazz and blues and have played guitar for seven years. During my undergraduate studies, I studied Latin and ended up translating chapters from the Vulgate Bible. (Note: I'd love to start tutoring around the beginning of October. I'm working a full-time job till then. It could still fit alongside tutorials, but it would easiest to start tutorials once the job ends.)
Subject Expertise
Writing (essays), Music (Music Theory-Aural Skills-Classical Piano-Popular Guitar), Spanish (speaking-reading-and writing), Latin (grammar and translating), Literature (English and Spanish), Philosophy (particularly Greek)