The ways we remember our collective past influence our present and shape our futures. This course examines how we rhetorically construct and struggle over social memory through public remembrances of historical events via war memorials, film and documentary, commemorative celebrations, reenactments, monuments, and museum exhibits. Students extend rhetorical and visual theoretical concepts and methods to evaluate sites of public memory and the social and cultural politics shaping the construction of memory. Fall.
Prerequisite:
COMM 210 Minimum Grade: C
and COMM 220 Minimum Grade: C
and (COMM 275 Minimum Grade: C
or COMM 285 Minimum Grade: C)
Equivalent:
INST 351 - OK if taken since Fall 2018