Course Details

What compels us to travel? Some look for adventure,for insights and inspiration. Others travel out of necessity, to provide for their families or to escape from persecution. When we travel we become strangers in a strange land and we go to find our place in the world. In this seminar we will explore questions of travel and identity, border crossing –both literally and figuratively– and consider that in one sense, we are all “travelers” already, making passage between birth and death; in another, more mundane, sense, we
contribute to one of the largest industries in the world: tourism. We will pursue these and other questions through travel literature, exploring the lure
of travel and the mind of the traveler throughout history.