| Call Number | 00682 |
|---|---|
| Day & Time Location |
TR 8:40am-9:55am 302 Barnard Hall |
| Points | 3 |
| Grading Mode | Standard |
| Approvals Required | None |
| Instructor | William C Sharpe |
| Type | LECTURE |
| Course Description | Whats in a walk? This course undertakes an interdisciplinary study of a fundamental human activity, focusing on philosophical and aesthetic treatments of human locomotion. After first examining the history of walking as a social, economic, religious, and political activity, the course will concentrate on urban walking and how it has been represented in text and image from ancient times to the present. Topics will include walking as introspection, escape, recreation, and discovery; walking and gender; the psychogeography of walking, walking in the city, etc. Readings from Austen, Wordsworth, Dickens, Thoreau, Whitman, Joyce, Woolf, OHara, De Certeau, and many others. Images from film, painting, and photography to be provided by student research. Ditto for musical strolls. |
| Web Site | Vergil |
| Department | English @Barnard |
| Enrollment | 36 students (40 max) as of 9:14PM Wednesday, November 20, 2024 |
| Subject | English |
| Number | BC3146 |
| Section | 001 |
| Division | Barnard College |
| Section key | 20241ENGL3146X001 |