Indiana University: Department of Central Eurasian Studies

U320/U520: Travelers & Explorers in Central Asia (3 CR)
Spring 2003, MW 4:00-5:15, WY 111
Instructor: Ron Sela   (email: rsela@indiana.edu) 

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Course Requirements & Grading: 

• Midterm exam (25%)
• Course assignment (25%)
• Final:  take-home exam (30%)
• Demonstrated progress in the readings (i.e., contribution to class discussions and brief response papers) (20%).
• Graduate students will write a term paper - as their course assignment -  to be decided in consultation with the instructor.
• Course Assignment  will be decided upon in consultation with the instructor: book review, comparison of two narratives, analysis of travel writing as literary genre (with relevance to our course), review of  secondary literature on a work or a period, likeness and contradiction between European travel narratives and non-European ones, etc. Additional ideas may be considered. Another option that would count as the course assignment, would be to present a relevant source, or a group of sources in class, and lead a discussion about them.

Deadline for announcement of assignment topic: Monday, March 24.

Deadline for submission of course assignment: Tuesday, May 6.