Washington, D.C. & Maryland
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Spend 6 days in the nation's capital and on Maryland's Eastern Shore as we explore Harriet Tubman's sites of freedom.
6 days travel at
$1,600 plus tuition
WRIT 399
3 Credit Hours
Instructed by
Dr. Angela Green
Priority Deadline
March 6, 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 Do
You'll explore notable sites, with a suggested itinerary that includes:
What You'll Learn
- Students will learn about the arguments and kinds of rhetoric used to defend slavery and to abolish it.
- Students will learn how activism to abolition of slavery was connected to and sometimes in conflict with efforts to secure women's rights.
- Students will learn how to conduct online and library research, including at the Library of Congress, to teach others about the significance of a given site.
- Students will learn effective composing practices using various media in order to choose the best modes and means of communicating with various audiences.
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. Angela Green
Writing Enriched Curriculum Senior Lecturer
akgreen2@olemiss.edu
Dr. Green's expertise is in American Literature and Rhetoric and Composition, the specialties of her PhD in English from the University of Georgia. She has been teaching writing, rhetoric, literature, and combinations of all three for more than twenty years. Dr. Green has also taught students abroad, in the UK and, more recently, in Greece. Her course WRIT 398: Comparing Democracies on Location in Greece has inspired her to return to a period in American life and literature that she especially loves and thinks students will be enriched by learning more about: the 19th century and debates surrounding slavery and "the woman question."
“While this can be difficult history to grapple with, it's necessary history, and I expect students to come away from this experience with a renewed sense of what it means to be American, what it means to be "free" in a political sense, and why the question of who should be or is free remains very much an open one. ”
– Dr. Green