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2018-2019 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2018-2019 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

GLS 3590 - Global Travels, Global Encounters (3)


When Offered: On Demand
This course explores the global experience of travel and encounters with unfamiliar people and places, both past and present. Travelers face the pressures of a real world only marginally under their control. Reasons for moving from one place to another include pleasure and leisure, research and work, the personal and the pilgrimage, and migration driven by economic need or other forces. Whatever the motivation, travel challenges and shapes understandings of local and global in very real ways. Students will critique not only narratives but also maps, objects, archives, and other primary and secondary materials. They will address the context of global travel: what is the state of it, what drives it, and what is its impact on the world?