The Art of Travel

Semester and Year	SP 2013
Course Number	TRAVL-UG1200
Section	001
Instructor	Steve Hutkins
Days
Time
Units	2.0
Level	U
Foundation Requirement

Notes/Restrictions

Enrollment is restricted to students studying abroad at an NYU site during Spring 2013.

Description

This online course provides an opportunity for students studying abroad to reflect, analytically and creatively, on their travel experiences. We examine the art created by travelers—travel literature, photography, paintings—and consider how traveling can itself be viewed as an art, with its own conventions, styles, traditions, and opportunities for innovation. All of the course activities are conducted on the class Web site: students blog about their responses to the readings and their own travels, post photos, and comment on each other’s posts. Enrollment is limited to students studying at one of NYU’s study abroad sites. Reading assignments are individualized for the city and country of each study-abroad site, but some readings are for the whole class: these may include selections from de Botton’s The Art of Travel , Urry’s The Tourist Gaze, MacCannell’s The Tourist , and Leed’s The Mind of the Traveler . For more information, see the course website: travel-studies.com.

Course Type

Travel Courses (TRAVL-UG)