Standout Courses for Spring '24
Spring 2024
MW, 10:10-11:25am
CAS497-001: Rhetoric and Public Memory
Dr. Bradford Vivian
biv113@psu.edu
This course will enable students to understand and examine the rhetoric of public memory, or how communities keep the past alive by creating and communicating knowledge about it from one generation to the next. Exploring how people speak of the past in present-day social and political debates can equip students to participate effectively in such important public deliberations.
“The past is never dead ” according to William Faulkner. “It’s not even past.”
Spring 2024
MW, 2:30-3:45
CAS475-001. Public Address: Defining U.S. Freedom in the Long 19th Century
Dr. Bradford Vivian
biv113@psu.edu
This course will examine how Americans rhetorically created, debated, and altered essential U.S. definitions of freedom from colonial times to the early twentieth century -over the American long nineteenth century. Our readings will demonstrate that public speech and debate over the meaning of freedom was a constant feature of those developments. Understanding how Americans defined freedom over the long nineteenth century allows us to examine how Americans continue to use such vocabularies of freedom in contemporary debates.
Spring 2024
AFAM 297 / CAS 297.
Communicating Race and Sport
TuTh 10:35-11:50am
Mike Delayo
mud528@psu.edu
“Communicating Race and Sport” provides the opportunity to learn about and scrutinize connections among communication, race, and sport. We will encounter documentary films, memorials, archival materials, and more in pursuit of sociohistorical understandings of sport and race. Even as these understandings shift with changing times and technologies, communication’s role in understanding race and sport as well their role in understanding communication) remains constant.