Courses: Rhetorical criticism, public address, persuasion, public memory theory, argumentation.

Objectives: Through analysis of public controversies about Confederate monuments on college campuses, students will: (1) explore the concept of “public memory,” how groups of people form shared interpretations of the past; (2) examine how monuments act as rhetorical texts that embody disparate public memories for different groups of people; and (3) engage in rhetorical analysis to learn how public memories are often constructed to serve present interests rather than to preserve accurate accounts of the past.

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通过分析大学校园中的同盟纪念碑争议来教授公共记忆

课程：修辞批评，公共演讲，说服力，公共记忆理论，论辩。

目标：通过分析大学校园中有关同盟古迹的公共争议，学生将：（1）探索“公共记忆”的概念，人们如何形成对过去的共同解释；（2）研究古迹如何作为修辞手稿，体现对不同人群的不同的公共记忆；（3）进行修辞分析，以了解通常如何构建公共记忆来满足当前的利益，而不是保留对过去的准确描述。