| Title: | The American Road Trip |
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| Course Section Number: | ENG-180-02 |
| Department: | English |
| Description: | Wanderlust is a defining feature of the American psyche. Americans invented the automobile and the drive-thru window. They built the Interstate Highway System and-shortly thereafter-left a car on the moon. In this course, we'll explore how roads, cars, and road trips function in American literature and culture, keeping a few pertinent questions on the dashboard as we go: do road trips allow Americans to cross borders of race, class, religion, gender, and sexual identity that they would otherwise not? Who is able to take road trips? Who stays at home? We'll read Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) and Walt Whitman's "Song of the Open Road" (1856). We'll watch Ridley Scott's film, Thelma and Louise (1991), and view the photographs of Robert Frank as he crosses the U.S. (The Americans, 1959). We'll follow escaped slaves, post-apocalyptic survivors, and our own eye for interstate exploration. |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 20, 2020 |
| End Date: | May 9, 2020 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/21/2020-05/07/2020 Lecture Tuesday, Thursday 09:45AM - 11:00AM, Center Hall, Room 216
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| Faculty: | Mong, Derek |
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