UCR Summer Travel Study Course in Hue June 25-July 28, 2008
David A Biggs <david.biggs@ucr.edu>
date Dec 4, 2007 12:36 PM
subject [Vsg] UCR Summer Travel Study Course in Hue || June 25-July 28, 2008
Dear Colleagues,
We're working on year #3 for our summer course in Hue. Thanks for
forwarding widely to students and faculty who may be interested:
Encountering Vietnam: UCR Summer Travel Study Course in Hue
June 23 - July 26, 2008
Prof. David Biggs, History, UCR
This course takes advantage of its unique location in Hue, Vietnam to
introduce students to a long history of travel encounters beginning with
Chinese and Buddhist visitors in ancient times to French exchanges in the
18th and 19th centuries to more contemporary visits by veterans, tourists
and Vietnamese Americans in the present. It focuses on travel writing as a
special genre of historical and literary text, using it as a means to study
Vietnam through the eyes of foreigners as well as Vietnamese traveling
their own country. Regular lectures focus on different genres of travel
writing in different eras.
As individual travelers in Vietnam, students will also be expected to
research and write their own travel narrative. This will not simply be a
travel diary of adventures but a more carefully constructed, reflective
investigation of specific aspects of Vietnamese culture in Hue based on
regular and repeated visits to one project site in Hue. Past projects have
involved students volunteering and visiting orphanages, schools, government
offices, arts studios, and other venues. The travel-writing project,
arranged as an independent study, involves collaboration with a local
Vietnamese student from Hue University and will be presented together at
the end of the course.
Program fees include lodging (single room), breakfast, insurance, course
fees and trips to Hanoi, Hoi An and My Son, and the former de-militarized
zone (DMZ) as well as numerous city tours to see world heritage sites in
Hue. $3700 UC Students, $4000 non-UC/grad students.
Earn 9 Units:
HIST 189/VNM 189 - (5) Lecture, 3 hours per week (group activity)
Tutorial, 3 hours per week (individual activity) Clinic, 3 hours per week
(individual activity) Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing.
HIST 190 - Special Studies (4 units) Travel-Writing Project
Meant to complement HIST 189/VNM 189, this course covers the travel-writing
project described above.
For more info please contact David Biggs at dbiggs@ucr.edu or Mely
Fitzgerald at UCR Summer Sessions: mely.fitzgerald@ucr.edu.
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David A Biggs
1212 HMNSS Building - History
University of California - Riverside
Riverside CA 92521
Phone (951) 827-1877
Fax (951) 827-5299