Writing About Places
ENGL 131
Spring 2016
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Crosslisting:
CGST 131 |
Certificates: Writing |
This course is one in a series called "writing about places" exploring the long tradition of writing about travel and places and changing attitudes toward crossing cultural and geographical borders. Readings will focus largely on the writings of 20th-century travelers, and will include an examination of the phenomenon of migration. We will examine historical and cultural interactions/confrontations as portrayed by both insiders and outsiders, residents and visitors, colonizers and colonized, and from a variety of perspectives: fiction, literary journalism, travel accounts, histories. Writing assignments will include critical and analytical essays and will encourage students to examine their own experiences with places and cultural encounters. |
Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Will include some of the following writers: Achebe, Basho, Calvino, Chatwin, Columbus, Conrad, Fenton, Fussell, Graham Greene, Hemingway, Hochschild, Kaplan, Kapuscinski, Kincaid, Marco Polo, R. West
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Examinations and Assignments: Approximately a book a week, weekly writing assignments (reading responses and others), 3 more extensive papers. In this seminar course, students (in pairs) will be responsible for leading class discussion twice during the semester. |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments: Counts as an entry-level craft course for the Writing Certificate. |
Instructor(s): Hadler,Alice Berliner Times: ....R.. 01:10PM-04:00PM; Location: 167 HIGH; |
Permission of Instructor Required Enrollment capacity: 16 | Permission of instructor approval will be granted by the instructor during pre-registration through the Electronic Portfolio. Click "Add to My Courses" and "To request a POI electronically, click here" to submit your request. |
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