Austin, TX
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Learn how to write like a professional travel writer while visiting the eclectic city of Austin, TX.
7 days of travel at
$1,475 plus tuition
WRIT 399
3 Credit Hours
Instructed by
Jeanine Rauch
Priority Deadline
March 6, 2026
Travel Overview
Go beyond textbooks and lecture halls. Study USA’s travel courses combine academic learning with hands-on, real world experiences. Every class maximizes its unique location with immersive activities.
You’ll earn academic credit, apply what you’re learning directly to your surroundings, and engage in lively class experiences—all guided by Ole Miss faculty.
All activities are tentative and subject to change depending on scheduling, booking availability, and course adjustments.
What You'll Do
- LBJ Library Museum
- Texas State Capitol Tour
- Emma S. Barrientos Cultural Arts Center
- Botanical Gardens at Zilker Park
- Bat watching on the Congress Ave. Bridge
- Dinner at the Oasis
What You'll Learn
Building on the foundations of WRIT 100/101 and 102 (or their equivalents), students will progress in the following areas:
- Process: Apply a writing process that relies on planning, research, drafting, revising, and editing. Develop a process for travel writing and research in mind. Reflect on their personal research, writing, and composing practices.
- Research: Use an inquiry-driven approach to identify topics by locating, evaluating, and integrating external credible sources, and synthesizing the information into research-based writing and adhering to appropriate citation practices.
- Purpose and Audience: Engage in writing that promotes action, accomplishing rhetorical aims in contexts suitable for a range of purposes with an emphasis on travel writing/publishing purposes. Match writing styles to specific audiences.
- Exploration and Argumentation: Apply rhetorical strategies effectively and ethically to different genres, including reading and responding to complex texts that represent a range of opinions that may differ from their own. Synthesize external sources and their ideas into sound arguments that logically argue a claim. Produce compositions that demonstrate well-informed understanding of selected issues within their disciplines.
- Conventions and Mechanics: Produce compositions that are free of logical fallacies and mechanical errors that distort meaning or interfere with clarity and comprehension. Produce compositions that adhere to the conventions of academic based writing.
Meet Your Instructor
All Study USA courses are designed and led by Ole Miss faculty. Your instructor(s) will be your first point of contact during your travels and lead you through all the class experiences.
Jeanine Rauch
Senior Lecturer and Regional Campus Writing Center Director
mjrauch@olemiss.edu
Dr. Jeanine Rauch has over 15 years of experience in writing and teaching. She majored in creative writing and now uses those creative writing skills to help students expand their ideas as they compose academic research writing. She is a Texas native but has family roots in Mississippi. She enjoys sharing her love of traveling and writing while teaching for Study USA.
“While teaching a course for Study USA, students are afforded the opportunity to explore a new city, make personal connections, and gain new experiences. As students travel, they gather these new experiences and transform them into written words, creating their own descriptions based on their personal travel experience.”
– Dr. Rauch