13 Mar
Courses Tied to UM’s 60th Anniversary of Integration
Topics include minorities in health professions, politics of inequality
Course Detail
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Washington, DC
Memory, Place and Language: The Rhetoric of Memorial Museums
Dates: On Campus: July 29-August 2, 2024; August 5-9 in Washington, DC
Credit Hours: 3
Instructor: Wendy Goldberg, Lecturer in Composition & Rhetoric
Course Fee: $1325 plus tuition
Application Deadline: March 1, 2024
- Explore the intersection of memory, place, and language
- Analyze memorials, museums, and memorial museums to understand how state and public memory functions through rhetoric
- Visit memorials and museums in Washington such as the Lincoln Memorial, National World War II Memorial, National African American Civil War Memorial, National Postal Museum, and the National Museum of the American Indian
- Utilize two bookended visits to the National Holocaust Memorial Museum as a lens for rhetorical analysis during the course.
- Examine through reflective posts and analytical papers how meaning is created.
- Create a multimodal project that interprets, responds to, or reflects on their experience to share with the Oxford, Lafayette, and University community.
Itinerary subject to change. Please verify specific dates with instructor and confirm that the course has adequate enrollment to make before making travel arrangements.
Student will meet from July 29 through August 2 in Oxford before making their own way to Washington, DC for classes August 5-9.
Writing and rhetoric students, museum studies minors, professional writing minors, and other students interested in writing for a public audience.
Students will make their own way to and from Washington, DC. While in Washington, group ground transportation will be provided. Shared accommodations will be provided. Study USA students may have their airfare billed to their bursar account. Details will be available upon enrollment in the course.
$1325 plus tuition. Included in the program fee are housing, group ground transportation for the course, sight admissions, and select group meals. Tuition, transportation to/from Washington, DC, 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.
Consent of the Department Chairperson
