13 Mar
Courses Tied to UM’s 60th Anniversary of Integration
Topics include minorities in health professions, politics of inequality
Course Detail
Austin, Texas
Travel Writing in Texas
Dates: On-campus: May 13 and May 21-24; In Austin: May 14-20, 2024
Credit Hours: 3
Instructor: Dr. Jeanine Rauch, Lecturer and DeSoto Campus Writing Center Director
Course Fee: $1325 plus tuition
Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
- Explore the rich culture and heritage of Austin, learning why Austin has the iconic slogan, “Keep Austin Weird.”
- Live local in the deep-rooted food culture and food truck scene.
- Experience the famous live music venues of 6th Street and learn how to document the experience through written and multimodal formats.
- Enjoy the natural beauty of Austin and Lake Travis by visiting the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center and eating at The Oasis overlooking Lake Travis.
- Spend the days, and nights, gathering ideas and recording their experiences.
- Learn to apply a range of rhetorical methods to convey the traveled path to others.
Itinerary subject to change. Students should wait to make travel arrangements after confirming dates and times with instructor.
Admission to this course requires the submission of a writing sample to the instructor.*
Students will meet on the Oxford campus on May 13. The instructor will determine the time and location of the on-campus meeting. Students will spend May 14-20 in Austin, TX, and continue the course on the Oxford campus May 21-24.
Students with wanderlust and a notebook, be it digital or analog. This course could be beneficial to students who are professional writing minors, writing and rhetoric students, journalism majors or minors, hospitality management students interested in travel writing, or any student needing an upper-level writing class.
Students will make their own travel arrangements to Austin, TX. Study USA students may have airfare billed to their bursar. Details will be provided once students are enrolled in the course. Included in the course fee are housing, group ground transportation, and select group meals. Excluded from the cost are the Study USA application fee, tuition, airfare, and personal spending money.
$1325 plus tuition. Included in the course fee are housing, group ground transportation, and select group meals. Tuition, transportation to/from Austin, most meals, and personal spending money are excluded from the program fee.
Once accepted to a program, the student accepts financial responsibility for Study USA program fees and tuition and must adhere to the application and withdrawal policy.
