13 Mar
Courses Tied to UM’s 60th Anniversary of Integration
Topics include minorities in health professions, politics of inequality
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia
Creativity in the American South: Music, Art, and Literature
Dates: On Campus: May 13 and May 20, 2024; Travel: May 14-19, 2024
Credit Hours: 3
Instructors: Dr. Julie Enszer, Instructional Assistant Professor of Gender Studies, and Dr. Elizabeth Venell, Instructional Assistant Professor of Gender Studies
Course Fee: $1695 plus tuition
Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
*Itinerary subject to change.
- Tour important cultural sites in Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.
- Explore how creative artists cultivate space, time, and inspiration.
- Visit the birthplace of Elvis and the Tammy Wynette Heritage Site.
- Examine the conditions of artists’ lives with particular attention paid to race, class, and gender.
- Visit cultural sites in Georgia related to Joel Chandler Harris, Flannery O’Connor, and Alice Walker.
- Ponder how artists and writers build a creative practice that is sustainable.
- Visit the Poarch Creek Indians Museum in Alabama on the way to the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum in Biloxi.
- Close the tour of the creative South with a visit to the Eudora Welty Home and Margaret Walker Center in Jackson.
Students will meet in Oxford on May 13 for an introductory seminar and will depart Oxford on May 14 to travel across Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia. Students will return to Oxford on May 20 with student presentations on campus that afternoon.
The course may interest anthropology, African American studies, gender studies, history, sociology, and southern studies majors and minors. Students interested in interdisciplinary scholarship, culture, or identity may also enjoy this course.
Students will travel across three southern states – Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia - visiting important cultural sites along the way. Students will start and finish the course in Oxford, MS.
Students will depart Oxford on May 14 and will travel through the state, Alabama, and Georgia via van until returning to Oxford on May 20. Shared hotel accommodations will be provided during this course.
$1695 plus tuition. Included in the program fee are housing, group ground transportation, tours, museum admissions, class activities, and two group meals. Tuition, most meals, and personal spending money are excluded from the program fee.
Once accepted to a program, the student accepts financial responsibility for Study USA program fees and tuition and must adhere to the application and withdrawal policy.
No prerequisites are required for this class.
