Here's what happened when I taught a fly-fishing course in the waterways of New Orleans

By Christopher Schaberg, Director of Public Scholarship, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis

Uncommon Courses is an occasional series from The Conversation U.S. highlighting unconventional approaches to teaching.

Title of course:

“The Art of Fly-Fishing”

What prompted the idea for the course?

After two years of Zoom classes due to the pandemic, I thought it would be useful to offer a two-week intersession course at Loyola University New Orleans that got students away from their phones and computers.

I had just written

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