COMM 482 - Public Culture

3 Credits

Description
This course will examine how local monuments, exhibits, and historic sites become significant communicative practices in the production of cultural and national identity. Multiple rhetorical practices of public memorialization will be analyzed, including digital (cultural memes, media objects), spontaneous (pop-up shrines), routine spectacles (parades, pilgrimages, and festivals) along with other more traditional examples of structures or places. Public memorialization continues to be a primary communicative praxis that occasions the practice of interpreting the past to create, reinforce, and perpetuate current ideas of nationhood and identity in the daily life of these contested landscapes.

Prerequisites
the successful completion of 45 credits of course work

Foundational Studies Credit
High Impact Practices

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