Section Information

Days, Times, and Locations

Monday Wednesday
4:00 pm - 5:50 pm
Media Learning Center - Rm. 120 - map

Class Number (Formerly CRN)

41026

Instructor(s)

Rina Benmayor

Enrollment

University Learning Requirements

Culture and Equity

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Department Information

Name: Humanities and Communication ~ Division of

Email: humanities_communication@csumb.edu

Phone: 582-3889

Fax: 582- 3780

Building: Humanities & Communication

Website: http://hcom.csumb.edu

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Course Description:

Travel narratives relate journeys to home audiences, portray the "other," and reveal the culture and "self" of the traveler. Examines the historical, literary, and cultural significance of narratives of discovery, conquest, colonization, exploration, and tourism in the Americas. Offers built-in assessment in HCOM MLO 5 or the concentrations in Comparative American Studies; Literary and Film Studies; or History, Oral History, and New Media. Requires successful completion of the ENGCOM and U.S. Histories ULRs; a literature course from the Literature/Popular Culture ULR is recommended. (Offered every other year.)

Corequisites, Prerequisites & Restrictions:

Footnotes:

• No footnotes

Start & End Dates:

Start: August 24, 2009
End: December 20, 2009

Consent Requirements:

Catalog History

Course Materials

ed. and transl. J. M. Cohen, The four Voyages of Christopher Columbus : Being his own log-book, letters and dispatches with connecting narrative drawn from the Life of the Admiral by his son Hernando Colon and other contemporary historians (London [u.a.]: Penguin Books, 1969)
ISBN: 0140442170
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Required Reading

Jean Francois de la Perouse, Life in a California Mission: Monterey in 1789 (: Heyday Books, 1989)
ISBN: 13: 9780930588397
Required Reading

Jamaica Kincaid, A small place (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2000)
ISBN: 0374527075
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Required Reading

June E. Hahner, Women Through Women's Eyes (: Scholarly Resources, 1998)
ISBN: 978-0842026338
Required Reading

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ISBN: 23456
Reccomended Reading