TI 230-HST - Imagined World

Min Units: 3
Max Units: 3
This course will examine, through an array of literary, historical, and philosophical texts, some of the ways in which people have tried to understand their own world and their own lives through the creation of “imagined worlds.” Some of those worlds are exterior – a map of the world created by a 16th-century Venetian monk living on an island in the harbor of Venice, listening to the tales of travelers who visit him; while some are interior – a fictional character trying to come to terms with the death of his wife, and his own impending mortality, by revisiting (reinventing?) the site of his childhood Summer vacations. Having explored, discussed, and written about the imagined worlds of others, toward semester’s end class participants will have the opportunity to create their own imagined world. (U) Occasionally