New
Orleans, LA
CityJournalism & Comm Meet an Expert Local Culture
Spend 6 days in New Orleans exploring how environmental changes and disruptions have impacted this historic city. Along the way, you'll explore communications and reporting around these important topics.
6 days travel at
$1,150 plus tuition
JOUR 575
3 Credit Hours
Instructed by
Cynthia Joyce
Apply by
October 4, 2024
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.
What You'll Learn
- Learn to look critically at media outlets and the interests behind them.
- Understand ethical issues that arise within technological and environmental disruption.
- Research and report on subject matters of interest.
What You'll Do
- Connect with reporters from WVUE-TV/Fox 8 and the New York Times.
- Discuss contemporary issues in climate and environmental communications during visits to the New Orleans Mayor’s Office, Turtle Cove, and the Corps of Engineers Flood Control office.
- Gain insights into New Orleans culture through visits to the Jazz Museum, the Ogden Museum, The Presbeytere, and the Historic New Orleans Collection.
All activities are tentative and subject to change depending on scheduling, booking availability, and course adjustments.
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.
Cynthia Joyce
Associate Professor of Journalism
Department of Journalism, School of Journalism and New Media
cjoyce@olemiss.edu
Cynthia Joyce received her Bachelor of Arts from Duke University in 1991 and her Master of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University in 1993. She joined the University of Mississippi faculty in 2011 as an Assistant Professor of Journalism. Joyce has been a writer, editor, and web producer for more than 15 years. She has contributed to several regional and national publications, including Salon, The Washington Post, Newsday, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, and MSNBC, where she was a senior producer from 2007-2011. She also worked briefly as a producer at Nola.com post-Katrina.
“The Study USA experience in New Orleans offers the opportunity for new adventures, even for those of us who have spent time in the city before.
The opportunity for students to learn by doing, to be in the field reporting and navigating a new environment — not just as a tourist, but as a real student of the place — and learning where it fits into the rest of the country's economy and culture is so different from visiting someplace just for the pleasures it offers. ”
- Cynthia Joyce