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Travel Writing (Online Course) (EGL 145 W)
Why is it that we must leave home in order to know ourselves? How does place inform our understanding of ourselves and the world? This online course explores the writing of the traveler—essays of place, exploration, and excavation. But you do not need to go far to write about place; the festival in your hometown, the view from your back porch, or the memory of traveling with your grandmother when you were a child all serve as perfect catalysts. We will use Best American Travel Writing 2006 as our guide, taking cues from its essays on how to structure, organize, and propel a travel piece. But for the most part, this class will function as a workshop. Students will write several short pieces to explore different aspects of technique and approach throughout the term. The course will culminate with every student writing a full-length essay, and receiving thorough critique from the class to help hone it for publication.
Created in close partnership with the Stanford Creative Writing Program, this online course will be useful for students looking to improve their craft. Because this course can be taken anywhere, anytime, it is designed to be attractive to those students who live far from campus, or who lead busy lives and can benefit from the flexibility of the online format. For more information about our online courses, please visit: http://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/onlinewriting/.
Rachel Richardson
Former Stegner Fellow
Rachel Richardson has published both poetry and
prose in several journals, including The Southern
Review, Shenandoah, PN Review, Blackbird, Crab
Orchard Review, and Southern Cultures. She was a
finalist for the Hopwood Award in nonfiction, and
received a BA from Dartmouth College and an MFA
from the University of Michigan. She is a lecturer in
creative writing at the University of North Carolina-
Chapel Hill, and will be traveling in Europe (and
writing about it) for all of 2008.
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Course Details
10 weeks
Mar 31 - Jun 8
3 units $750
Limit: 17
Drop by: Apr 3
Special refund deadline: April 3
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