HNRS: Travel and Tourism in Film and Literature
Fall 2019 Courses
Course:
SCHC 482 H01 17541
Course Attributes:
Humanities, AIU
Instructor:
Richard Harrill
Location/Times(1):
HONORS B110 on MW @ 03:55 pm - 05:10 pm
Registered:
18
Seat Capacity:
18
Notes:
The purpose of this course is to acquaint students, through film and literature, with both the positive and negative impacts of travel and tourism across centuries and continents, developmental settings ranging from the urban to the rural and all points between.Universal cultural issues appear in early texts such as Homer’s Odyssey and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Using travel as a metaphor for life, these works explored moral dilemmas and ambiguities, accountability and fate, and in doing so influenced generations of travel literature. Based on this foundation, there seems to be as many examples of travel and tourism in film and literature as there are travelers and travelogues. For convenience and achieving learning objectives, the class will be divided into four sections: (1) The Self-Discoverers, (2) The Travel Writers, (3) The Anti-Colonialists, and (4) The Travel Futurists.