Special Events
Analyzing Propaganda and Teaching Media Literacy
October 22, 2024 | 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Montgomery College | Rockville, MD (Flyer (PDF, 
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For more information contact:
Jamie Gillan, jamie.gillan@montgomerycollege.edu
Ken Jassie, kenneth.Jassie@montgomerycollege.edu
Media literacy skills have become essential for young people to successfully navigate and critically assess the ever-increasing mount of information they receive throughout their day - on social media, advertisements, television, and film. Therefore, it is crucial for students to comprehend and identify how media, both historically and in contemporary society, can be used as a tool to incite hate and violence against certain groups. This learning opportunity examines the events of the Holocaust through the lens of media, by examining propaganda deployed by the Nazis to discriminate against Jews and other minorities. Educators will gain the tools to facilitate classroom discussions on the role and impact of Nazi propaganda during the Holocaust and support their students to critically analyze media in today’s world.
Sponsored by: Montgomary College and The Paul Peck Humanities Institute
12th Annual Humanities Days at Montgomery College
The Humanities, Striving to Uplift and Unite in Times of Upheaval
Montgomery College will celebrate its 12th annual Humanities Days from October 21-25, 2024.
Humanities Days questions? Please contact us at: HumanitiesDays@montgomerycollege.edu
Humanities Days
October 21 - 25, 2024
Welcome to Montgomery College's 12th annual Humanities Days celebration! This annual
weeklong series of events is sponsored by the Global Humanities Institute and the Paul Peck Humanities Institute of Montgomery College.
The humanities help us understand ourselves and others through language, history,
and culture. They have the capacity to foster social justice and equality and they
reveal how people throughout time have tried to make moral, spiritual, and intellectual
sense of the world.
This year’s theme is The Humanities, Striving to Uplift and Unite in Times of Upheaval
Throughout history, at both times of change and unrest, and peace and calm, we have looked to the humanities and arts to express what we are experiencing, to answer the deep questions of why, how and what we can do to participate fully in our lives. This particular time in history is no different. As elections loom, conflicts propagate, and we attempt to discover who we are post pandemic and with the rise of AI, we ask, how does the humanities speak to and for us? Considering these questions, we invite members of the Montgomery College community across all disciplines and areas to explore the many ways that your discipline and work speak to the times, prepare students to be constructive participants in discourse, bring us together, and help us understand the complexities of our society and our place in the world.