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Syllabi are for course approval and reference only. Students will receive up-to-date syllabi when their courses begin.

Students enroll in the following two courses. Each course carries four Boston University credits. Students must enroll for a total of eight credits.

CAS IP 501 Travel Writing in Australia: Journalism and Non-Fiction
The course will focus on producing travel articles and factual pieces on travel and tourism developed around a sense of audience and purpose. Through the study of selected texts (including magazine and newspaper articles), and the drafting of written pieces, students will learn how to refine their writing style in order to integrate local voices, aspects of place, and other detailed research in an engaging narrative. Established travel writers and travel editors will be guest lecturers. There may be publication opportunities within the local, national, and overseas press, for student work of the highest merit. 4 cr.

CAS EN 592 Travel Writing in Australia: Journey and Place in Literature and Creative Writing
This course explores an eclectic collection of Australian writings which focus on a sense of place and the motif of journey. Authors to be studied include Mark Twain, D.H. Lawrence, Peter Carey, Olga Masters, Dorothy Hewett and Nadia Wheatley. The course will span more than 100 years of writing from postcards to poetry, short stories to novels, plays to screenplays. The first-hand knowledge of place that students will gain during the research trip, compared with a writer’s evocation of that place will help to illuminate the writing process and inform a critical reading of the texts. Australian writers, playwrights, screen dramatists and editors will be included as guest lecturers.

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Faculty

Sharon Clarke: PhD, BA (Hons), English, Wollongong University. Prior to joining the Sydney Internship Program as assistant director in 1998, she taught courses at Wollongong University specializing in Australian literature, 20th century women writers, children¹s literature, gender and genre, and creative arts. With more than twelve years of experience in teaching, she is the author of a major biography, children¹s books, and numerous academic articles in her field. In 2004, she became associate director of the academic programs. She has several writing projects underway, including the memoir of a Hitchcock writer, whom she knew personally for more than 10 years. Sharon teaches EN383, Australian Literature during Fall and Spring semesters; and she is the program coordinator for Travel Writing in Australia program during Summer. Her philosophy in teaching literature is to always uncover the living landscape behind the words.

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