Davis, Elizabeth
MTWRF 12:30 PM
Park Hall 0149
NOTE: This course is a Study Away Program in Maymester 2024. To apply for the program, please visit studyaway.uga.edu and search for Writing and Community at the Georgia Coast or contact Dr. Elizabeth Davis for more information.
This service-learning Domestic Field Study course will partner with the University of Georgia’s Marine Extension to research and write texts that tell the stories of people and seafood along the Georgia coast and Sea Islands. The focus will be on the myriad connections between people and seafood: those who harvest and farm it, those who study and manage it, those who cook it, those who educate about it, those who use it as creative inspiration, and those who work in various ways to protect and sustain it. Students will travel to the Georgia coast for direct engagement with coastal communities, including the Geechee community on Sapelo Island. Students will study methods for facilitating deep listening and community centered civic engagement; conduct field and academic research at Marine Extension facilities, analyze model texts; and engage in a process-based writing practice that prioritizes feedback and dialogue with community members during the development of written texts. The Penn Center residency at the beginning of the field study component of the course will give students access to archival and cultural resources that deepen their knowledge of Gullah Geechee culture to help them accurately and appropriately convey its critical role in the past, present, and future of the Georgia coast in their writing.