WOMEN'S TRAVEL WRITING, 1830-1930:

COURSES USING WTW TEXTS

• Winter Quarter 1999
• Spring Quarter 1999
• Fall Semester 1999
• Spring Semester 2000
• Fall Semester 2001

• WINTER QUARTER 1999
  
  
  1. College Honors Seminar 3070
     "Imagining Argentina: Sex and Violence in the New World"
     Professor Amy Kaminsky, Women's Studies
     Students in this course were set an assignment using Katherine Dreier's Five Months in the Argentine From A Woman's Point of View (1920).
     
     
  2. History 1012
     "Introduction to World History"
     Professors M.J. Maynes and Ann Waltner, History
     This past quarter, students in this course were invited to consult the WTW site as an optional field trip. Use of online texts will be integrated in the future. Two WTW texts--Calderon de la Barca's Life in Mexico During a Residence of Two Years in that Country (1843) and Emilie Ruete's Memoirs of an Arabian Princess (1907)--are already required texts for this course.
     
     
  3. History 5941
     "Travel, Travel Writing and Cultural History"
     Professor Liping Wang, History
     Students in this course were invited to consult the WTW site as an optional field trip.
  
  

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• SPRING QUARTER 1999
  
  
  1. History of Science 5050
     "Women & Science"
     Professor Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, Science & Technology
     Students in this course will be required to consult several WTW texts prepared specifically for this course, including Mary Akeley's Carl Akeley's Africa (1931).
     
     
  2. French 3513
     "French Civilization & Culture: Modern Period"
     Professor Judith Preckshot, French & Italian
     Students in this course will be invited to work with a WTW text--Flora Tristan's Pérégrinations d'une paria (1838)--as an optional research project.
     
     

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• FALL SEMESTER 1999
  
  
  1. College Honors Seminar 1050
     "Banned and Burned: Controversial Texts in American Literature and Culture"
     Sarah Wadsworth, English
     Literacy and access to print, politics and propaganda, gender and sexuality, censorship, and the impact of digital media on the dissemination of controversial texts...
     WTW prepared a travel text by Harriet Beecher Stowe for use in this course.
     
     
  2. English ENGC 5650
     "Topics in Rhetoric, Compostion and Language"
     Professor Don Ross, English
     History of writing technologies. Included focus on the current state of computer-based writing and communcation technologies...
     
     
  3. History 1012
     "Introduction to World History: The Age of Global Contact"
     Professors M.J. Maynes and Ann Waltner, History
     This semester all 330 students were asked to read required texts online: Calderon de la Barca's Life in Mexico During a Residence of Two Years in that Country (1843) and Emilie Ruete's Memoirs of an Arabian Princess (1907). One section was given a sophisticated text analysis assignment.
     
     
  4. History 5980
     "Topics in Comparative Women's History: Gender in the Age of Revolution"
     Professor Sarah Chambers, History
     
     
  5. Women's Studies 4302
     "Womens' Personal Narratives"
     Professor Angelita Reyes, Afro-American & African Studies
     
     

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• SPRING SEMESTER 2000
  
  
  1. Journalism 5601
     "History of Journalism"
     Professor Hazel Dicken-Garcia, Journalism & Mass Communication
     
     
     

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• FALL SEMESTER 2001
  
  
  1. HSCI 4455
     "Women, Gender, and Science"
     Professor Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, Science & Technology
     15 students (3 undergrads and 11 graduate students). Assigned to write about women in science as travelers (http://www1.umn.edu/scitech/4455/assignments.html).