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Class number:
3404
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Title: Travel and Exploration |
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Department: Language and Culture Studies |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: No |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
| Enrollment limited to 15 |
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Current enrollment: 12 |
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Available seats: 3 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 2, 2025 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 17, 2025 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM, SH - T121 |
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Instructor(s): Hubert, Rosario |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities and Global Requirements |
Course Description:
Embark on a journey to the most extreme corners of the Earth. This course dives into the history, fictions, and archives of the Polar South. Along legendary expeditions to Antarctica like that of Ernest Shackleton and Roald Amundsen, we will cast light on the overlooked Latin American initiatives to explore and lay sovereign claims on these “faraway” lands, which -paradoxically- lie right next to South America. Through a wealth of historical accounts, digital collections, and geographical society proceedings, we will engage with hands-on research methods in environmental Humanities, paying close attention to literary and visual narratives from the early twentieth century, a time when Antartica was only starting to be mapped. Topics covered include the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration, the evolution of polar travel technology, extractivism and the whaling industry, ethnography, and the ethical dilemmas surrounding the desire for human settlement in a unique continent with no Indigenous population. |