New
Orleans, LA
CityArt, Design, & Performance Cultural sites Journalism & Comm
Spend 6 days in New Orleans — one of America's most mystic, haunting cities — studying music, culture and one of America's most mystic, haunting figures: Nobel Laureate Bob Dylan
6 days travel at
$1,700 plus tuition
JOUR 3610
3 Credit Hours
Instructed by
Dr. Ronnie Morgan
& Cynthia Joyce
Priority Deadline
September 30, 2026
Travel Overview
Go beyond textbooks and lecture halls. Study USA’s travel courses combine academic learning with hands-on, real world experiences. Every class maximizes its unique location with immersive activities.
You’ll earn academic credit, apply what you’re learning directly to your surroundings, and engage in lively class experiences—all guided by Ole Miss faculty.
What You'll Learn
- Gain a deeper understanding of the life, career and cultural significance of Bob Dylan.
- Situate Dylan’s work among the diverse peoples & culture movements of the city of New Orleans.
- Gather original reporting and tell original stories using professional journalistic standards.
- Articulate personal insights about complex issues or problems.
What You'll Do
Music in New Orleans is a powerful means of social organizing and cultural expression. Students will visit various cultural sites, including cemeteries, restaurants, newsrooms, record shops and more. They'll connect with and interview a wide range of local characters, including musicians, journalists, politicians and other outlaws.
All activities are tentative and subject to change depending on scheduling, booking availability, and course adjustments.
Meet Your Instructors
All Study USA courses are designed and led by Ole Miss faculty. Your instructor(s) will be your first point of contact during your travels and lead you through all the class experiences.
Dr. Ronnie Morgan
Instructional Professor and Director of Mississippi Scholastic Press Association
morgan@olemiss.edu
Dr. R.J. Morgan, MJE, is an international Dylan scholar and instructional professor in the School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi, where he teaches courses on "Bob Dylan and the South" and “Bob Dylan: Travel Writer.” He’s written about the singer for Mississippi Today, Religion Unplugged, the Overby Center for Southern Journalism and Politics and other forums. In 2025, he lectured at the Bob Dylan's Week Festival in Florence, Italy, and the World of Bob Dylan academic conference at the University of Tulsa. Morgan is currently working on his first book-length project, which focuses on Dylan's appearance at the 1963 Delta Folk Jubilee in Greenwood, Miss., the first integrated civil rights rally of its kind. As an ethnographic travel researcher, Morgan has followed Dylan's "Never Ending Tour" through 25 states, seven foreign countries and the District of Columbia. This is his first Study USA course.
“There are a lot of places I like, but I like New Orleans better.”
– Bob Dylan
Cynthia Joyce
Associate Professor of Journalism
Department of Journalism, School of Journalism and New Media
cjoyce@olemiss.edu
Cynthia Joyce received her Bachelor of Arts from Duke University in 1991 and her Master of Science in Journalism from Northwestern University in 1993. She joined the University of Mississippi faculty in 2011 as an Assistant Professor of Journalism. Joyce has been a writer, editor, and web producer for more than 15 years. She has contributed to several regional and national publications, including Salon, The Washington Post, Newsday, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, and MSNBC, where she was a senior producer from 2007-2011. She also worked briefly as a producer at Nola.com post-Katrina.
“The opportunity for students to learn by doing, to be in the field reporting and navigating a new environment — not just as a tourist, but as a real student of the place — and learning where it fits into the rest of the country’s economy and culture is so different from visiting someplace just for the pleasures it offers.”
- Cynthia Joyce