INT 246 - Visions of Florida

Using a wide variety of writings from the anthology The Florida Reader, Visions of Florida will explore the ways different individuals and groups have attempted to describe the meaning of the Florida experience. From Spanish explorers and Seminole Indians to yuppie vacationers and college students on spring break, groups coming to the state have envisioned it as a paradise. What happens when their visions encounter reality will be the subject of this course. Readings will include fiction by Ring Lardner, Zora Neale Hurston, and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, journals by Jonathan Dickinson, and John James Audubon, and selections from travel guides and guidebooks. See schedule for class meeting dates.

Prerequisite(s): ENG 140.