INQ-110 | Other Places

Full Title: Other Places: Travel, Literature, and Identity

Topic Description:

Why do we leave home? What drives us to leave behind the familiar (and often comfortable) for other places that are new to us, challenging to us, sometimes dangerous to us? What images/fantasies rise to the surface when we contemplate the possibility of visiting Egypt or Rome or Bangkok or Istanbul? And what happens when we get there? Can the reality rise to our expectations? Are we changed? Is the place we’re visiting? Students in this class will read widely and discuss actively literary works relating to this topic, seeking, finally, to answer these questions for themselves in a manner that reflects an intellectual engagement with the questions at hand.

Counts as Global? No

Topic Approved: April 2013