First-Year Seminars 110GT - Getting There

A course about journeys: some real, most fictional, all metamorphic. We will focus on the ways that a change of location, especially a move from or to home, is marked not only by encounters with place, but also by new understandings of others, and by reshapings of the self. Readings will be selected for historical, cultural, and thematic range, likely including works by Homer, Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, Eugene O'Neill, Doris Lessing, Charles Johnson, Jamaica Kincaid, Kazuo Ishiguro, Lan Cao, and Annie Proulx.

First-year students only, by placement.