Topics in Professional Writing: Travel Writing

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This course involves the reading and analysis of important and groundbreaking contemporary journalism, classic travel pieces, and literary narratives on travel. In a discussion and workshop setting, students will examine a wide variety of travel narratives; fictional and literary devices used in travel writing; the literary and journalistic elements of 'writing place' by the exploration of local, national and international travel narratives; and their own unique voices as the traveler/adventurer.