ATS2444 Inscribing Italy: Travels and imaginings
Faculty of Arts
ATS2444 Inscribing Italy: Travels and imaginings is a level 2, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts. It isn't offered in 2020. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Not offered
- Workload
- 144 hours
- per semester
The 2027 handbook has no page for ATS2444. This is its 2020 entry, the latest one.
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Requisites
Before ATS2444
Prohibitions
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After ATS2444
No unit lists ATS2444 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
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Overview
The unit maps the roots and routes of English-language travel in Italy, from the aristocratic travel of the English Renaissance, to the Grand Tourists of the eighteenth century, to the rise of middle-class tourism and the travel genre in the nineteenth century, to the mass tourism and cyber travel of today. In an eclectic range of sources, including travel books, essays and fiction, a central focus will be on contemporary or near-contemporary cultural responses to Italy (including those articulated in guidebooks), and also how the country is 'packaged' for the consumption of foreign travellers in the discourses of the tourism industry.
Offerings in 2020
The 2020 handbook lists no offerings for ATS2444.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
A clear understanding of the place of Italy in the imagination of English-language travellers
- 2
A critical sense of the historical development of cultural responses to Italy articulated in a range of texts
- 3
Knowledge of the relationship between travel and ideology, especially in specific cultural (including gendered) contexts
- 4
An informed grasp of contemporary critical and theoretical approaches to the diverse discourses of travel and representation
- 5
A grasp of the changing practices of travel and tourism
- 6
Critical perspectives on the processes of the production and reception of travel texts.
Workload and teaching
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement. + Additional requirements + Field trip - This unit is taught intensively at Prato
Where it fits
ATS2444 is part of 3 areas of study in the 2020 handbook.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Professor Robin Gerster
- Unit Coordinators
- Professor Robin Gerster
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ATS2444?
ATS2444 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is ATS2444 offered?
ATS2444 has no offerings listed in the 2020 handbook.
How much work is ATS2444?
The handbook expects about 144 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
Which majors and minors include ATS2444?
ATS2444 is part of Cultural competence and Literary studies.
More details
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 2
- Study level
- Undergraduate
- Faculty
- Faculty of Arts
- Organisational unit
- Literary Studies
- Type
- Coursework
- EFTSL
- 0.125
- Student contribution
- SCA Band 1
- Study abroad
- Not available
- Handbook years
- 2020