Spring 2025 English BC3146 section 001

WALK THIS WAY

Call Number 00175
Day & Time
Location
TR 10:10am-11:25am
To be announced
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 40 students (40 max) as of 9:05PM Friday, November 22, 2024
Status Full
Subject English
Number BC3146
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Section key 20251ENGL3146X001