On Location 2023 explores representations of Black history through diverse practices and sites of collective memory and commemoration in the extraordinarily vibrant setting of Charleston and the Low Country region of South Carolina. Co-led by professors Paige McGinley (AMCS & PAD) and Geoff Ward (AFAS), the immersive course surveys the strategies that museums, heritage walks, tourist guides, restaurants, and other cultural sites and performances adopt to represent this rich, contentious, and traumatic past.
This course will be of particular interest to students in Performing Arts, Music, Urban Studies, History, African and African American Studies, and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies-all of which fall under the broad umbrella of American Culture Studies. Graduate students and advanced undergraduates are welcome. Interested Individuals will need to complete and submit an application. Applications open January 17, 2023. Those selected to participate in this program will receive full tuition remission for the course and American Culture Studies will cover the majority of travel costs associated with this class. For application details and more information, please see https://amcs.wustl.edu/onlocation#
Course Attributes: EN H; AS HUM
