{"id":953,"date":"2023-03-21T23:45:05","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T23:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/flp\/?p=953"},"modified":"2023-04-18T18:42:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T18:42:26","slug":"dornsife-flp-writing-in-global-contexts-travel-writing-writ-380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/flp\/2023\/03\/21\/dornsife-flp-writing-in-global-contexts-travel-writing-writ-380\/","title":{"rendered":"Dornsife FLP: Writing in Global Contexts &#8211; Travel Writing (WRIT 380)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h3 class=\"td-program-title ng-star-inserted\">Writing in Global Contexts &#8211; Travel Writing (WRIT 380)<\/h3>\n<p class=\"td-program-title ng-star-inserted\"><strong>*Undergraduate applicants only, graduate students are not eligible*<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-954 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/flp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/03\/Pack_WRIT-380-Maymester.jpg\" alt=\"Pack_WRIT-380-Maymester\" width=\"1280\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/flp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/03\/Pack_WRIT-380-Maymester.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/flp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/03\/Pack_WRIT-380-Maymester-300x149.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/flp\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/04\/Pack_-WRIT-380-Course-Syllabus-2023.docx\">Syllabus<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>Program Information<\/h4>\n<p>In Western literature, there\u2019s a long history of writing about travel \u2013 both the physical and mental journeys taken away from home. From The Odyssey to The Travels of Marco Polo, to accounts of Europeans on \u201cthe Grand Tour,\u201d audiences have been drawn to the experiences that others undertake abroad and the way those experiences transform the lives of the people who take them. Today, travel literature remains a popular and enduring form \u2013 its variations encompass everything from social media posts and in-flight magazines to influential and best-selling books. Given this over-abundance, what\u2019s an aspiring travel writer to do? How can young authors possibly write something fresh about places that have been written about ad nauseam for centuries, if not millennia? In a world where practically every corner has been mapped, how can traveling and travel writing possibly take the author and reader anywhere new?<\/p>\n<p>The answer that this course proposes is two-fold, with the first being craft. Readers engage with stories about familiar places because the writer\u2019s prose is irresistible \u2013 we can\u2019t help but take a second (or third, or hundredth) helping of the same place because what\u2019s on the page is just that good. The second is through insight. Readers engage with familiar places because the ideas are new \u2013 the writer manages to show something unexpected out of a world we thought we knew. Such travel-writing often moves beyond the physical, drawing in elements of social critique, memoir, philosophy, history and more.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the Maymester, travel will enhance these objectives as we read examples from the genre and visit the places about which many of the authors write. In each location we will also focus on different skills and themes tied to the places and people we encounter in these settings. These encounters will prompt reflection and engagement, culminating in a series of personal journals, blog posts and essays.<\/p>\n<h4>Contact Information<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Faculty Director:<\/strong> Ben Pack<\/p>\n<p><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:bpack@usc.edu\">bpack@usc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dornsife FLP: Writing in Global Contexts - Travel Writing (WRIT 380)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Open to all undergraduates. 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