About
“Roadside America” HI193 Honors First Year Seminar, Worcester State University
Fall 2021: MWF 10:30 am Sullivan 318
This is a 3-credit* LASC required course. It counts as one of your 7 honors courses.
Welcome! This class weaves history, literature, popular culture and kitsch. We’ll “tour” the country on its literary back roads, analyze film & television about traveling and road trips/tripping, and explore the history and scholarship of the US interstate highway system, America’s love affair with autos, tourism, pilgrimage, memory and culture. From the redwood forest to the gulf stream waters… this land is your land, so embrace it!
Course Instructor:
Dr. Tona Hangen
Department of History and Political Science
Sullivan 327D – Office Hours Signup
email: thangen (at) worcester (dot) edu
Past Syllabi:
2015
2011
2009
2009-2011 course website
*By University definition:
Federal regulation defines a credit hour as an amount of work represented in intended learning outcomes and verified by evidence of student achievement that is an institutional established equivalence that reasonably approximates not less than –
(1) One hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction and a minimum of two hours of out of class student work each week for approximately fifteen weeks for one semester or trimester hour of credit, or ten to twelve weeks for one quarter hour of credit, or the equivalent amount of work over a different amount of time; or
(2) At least an equivalent amount of work as required in paragraph (1) of this definition for other academic activities as established by the institution including laboratory work, internships, practica, studio work, and other academic work leading to the award of credit hours.