TRAVEL NARRATIVES
| Title | ΤΑΞΙΔΙΩΤΙΚΕΣ ΑΦΗΓΗΣΕΙΣ / TRAVEL NARRATIVES |
| Code | Λογ6-425 |
| Faculty | Philosophy |
| School | English Language and Literature |
| Cycle / Level | 1st / Undergraduate |
| Teaching Period | Winter/Spring |
| Common | No |
| Status | Active |
| Course ID | 600020322 |
Programme of Study: 2024-2025
Registered students: 0
| Orientation | Attendance Type | Semester | Year | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| KORMOS | Elective Courses | Winter/Spring | - | 6 |
| Academic Year | 2021 – 2022 |
| Class Period | Spring |
| Faculty Instructors |
|
| Weekly Hours | 3 |
| Total Hours | 39 |
| Class ID | 600206107
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Class Schedule
| Building | Philosophy (new) |
| Floor | Floor 1 |
| Hall | ΑΜΦΙΘΕΑΤΡΟ 107 (126) |
| Calendar | Tuesday 16:00 to 18:30 |
Course Type 2011-2015
Knowledge Deepening / Consolidation
Mode of Delivery
- Face to face
Digital Course Content
- e-Study Guide https://qa.auth.gr/en/class/1/600206107
- At the Website of the School:
- eLearning:
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
- English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students are expected:
1) to have acquired a deeper knowledge of travel writing as a literary form and register within eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature and literary history
2) to have acquired a theoretical awareness of the narrative devices and literary practices involved in writing within this form
3) to have broadened and deepened their critical and theoretical skills in reading and understanding the various discourses (gender, power, imperialistic, aesthetic) that shape these writings
4) to have practiced their oral skills and academic writing
General Competences
- Apply knowledge in practice
- Retrieve, analyse and synthesise data and information, with the use of necessary technologies
- Adapt to new situations
- Make decisions
- Work autonomously
- Work in teams
- Work in an interdisciplinary team
- Generate new research ideas
- Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
- Respect natural environment
- Demonstrate social, professional and ethical commitment and sensitivity to gender issues
- Be critical and self-critical
- Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The aim of this course is to introduce a flourishing literary genre and investigate the ways travel writing has become relevant to a broad range of cultural, political and historical debates. After outlining competing definitions and offering a brief overview of the evolution of Western travel writing, the focus will fall on non-fiction and fiction travel accounts written by British travellers in the 18th and 19th centuries, a period during which the relationship between Britain and the wider world changed radically. The texts under examination will feature personal, scientific, touristic, antiquarian, diplomatic, and exploration discourses and will invite us to discuss the narrative techniques and literary devices authors used to achieve their effects. In addition, the course will address questions such as: what do travelogues reveal about the traveller’s subjectivity and their views of other peoples and other cultures? How did travel accounts help Britain understand the world? How do issues of identity construction, gender and sexuality impinge on travel writing?
Keywords
travel writing, narrative, gender, imperialism, Great Britain, identity, history
Educational Material Types
- Notes
- Slide presentations
- Video lectures
- Multimedia
- Interactive excersises
- Book
Use of Information and Communication Technologies
Use of ICT
- Use of ICT in Course Teaching
- Use of ICT in Communication with Students
Description
The form of information technology that the teacher of this course uses most is the e-learning (Moodle) in conjunction with the internet.
Course Organization
| Activities | Workload | ECTS | Individual | Teamwork | Erasmus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lectures | 117 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Reading Assigment | 10 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Written assigments | 20 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Exams | 3 | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Total | 150 |
Student Assessment
Description
Assessment is based on 1) Final exam only or 2) a brief critical essay with limited bibliography (30% of the final grade) and on a final examination with a combination of two short essay questions on taught materials (70% of the final grade). The essay is assessed on the basis of organisation, argumentation, quality of expression in English and skills of analysis and synthesis in interpreting the genre and its social-political dimension. The final examination is assessed on the basis of factual knowledge and familiarity with the required readings, in addition to the above criteria. Depending on student numbers each semester, the writing of the essay can be compulsory or optional. Another possible evaluation option is the oral presentation in class. Students are responsible for a fifteen-minute presentation so as to initiate discussion. Prior consultation with the instructor is necessary. Successful completion of this task will result in an extra mark on the students’ overall grade. The criteria are made known to the students at the beginning of the course.
Student Assessment methods
- Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Formative, Summative)
- Written Assignment (Formative, Summative)
- Performance / Staging (Formative, Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
The primary texts can be found in
• The Norton Anthology of English Literature
• Travel Writing 1700-1830: An Anthology (eds. Bohls and Duncan) [Scans available on e-learning]
• The Norton Book of Travel (ed. Paul Fussell) [Scans available on e-learning]
Last Update
25-02-2022
