Letters From Afar: Travel Writing Abroad

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Travel is a form of knowledge. "The traveler," wrote the British travel writer Robert Byron, "can know the world, in fact, only when he sees, hears, and smells it." This course offers a unique opportunity to further expand and deepen the knowledge you'll gain from the respective learning institutions you're traveling to this semester, by making students venture beyond the confines of campus, and engage with the everyday people and proceedings of the places in which those institutions are situated. From their observations, reporting, interviews and research about what they've encountered, students will compose a feature-length narrative in the form of a classic "Letter From…." piece in The New Yorker magazine. This course is for students who are not studying at their home location and are on a study away.