GLOBAL ADVENTURERS & EXPLORERS

Catalog description

This course explores great adventures past and present and the stories they tell, with a focus on mountaineers, climbers, and arctic voyagers on land and sea. Through discussion and analysis of film. media, and text, the course examines the human drives to reach summits, establish new passages and routes, an attain ever-greater feats of athleticism in harsh terrain. The course also investigates the art of adventure story telling through film and written word. Prerequisites: completion of an English sequence (4 credits)