Course Catalog - 2023-2024

     

HIST 413 - HISTORY OF TRAVEL

Long Title: A HISTORY OF TRAVEL: FROM MEDIEVAL PILGRIMAGE TO THE HIPPIE TRAIL
Department: History
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Language of Instruction: Taught in English
Course Type: Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Restrictions:
Must be enrolled in one of the following Level(s):
Undergraduate Professional
Visiting Undergraduate
Undergraduate
Description: The development of travel and travel narratives from the early medieval period through the 20th century, identifying why people travel and how those motives change over time. Examining spiritual journeys; fear and desire; the foreign gaze (east looking west); fictitious and vicarious travelling; geography/ethnography; antiquarianism; the gendered path; divine landscapes and the search for the authentic.