This course will consist of a set of readings about place as well as a program of experiential learning based on the “City as Text” model during the Summer Residency. In this course, students will study how other writers have represented place through a set of readings to be completed prior to the Residency. During the Residency, they will discuss the readings and go out themselves on “walkabouts” to explore landscapes and to learn how place itself is a text to be read as well as written.