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Literature
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COURSES SPRING,
2004: home -
peddie |
Literature of Travel
and Adventure: The Journey of the Self Travel as a way of seeing the
world and inventing the self is older than Odysseus and more intelligent than
“Road Rules.” Examining a variety of different types of travel writing,
students will enjoy the journeys and stories of other adventurers while
planning their own travel adventure.
Students take a special one day journey as an “authentic traveler,”
and compose their own travelogue. Students will also design a “dream” journey
for future use, a trip built on their research of some earlier traveler’s
journey. For some juniors who elect to do so, the course will include
studying and then retracing the first section of the “Trail Of Tears,” the
route of the removal of the Cherokee
Nation in 1838-39. This “Signature Experience” part of the course will
include a ten day camping and bicycle journey in eastern Tennessee (June
15-26, 2004). A special course fee will be required of students engaged in
the “Trail of Tears” project. Travel
is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people
need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men
and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth
all one's lifetime. -- Mark
Twain, Innocents Abroad |