Program Overview

Normandy Scholars Program

The Normandy Scholars Program is a selective interdisciplinary program open to undergraduate students from all majors at the University of Tennessee. The goal is to study the legacies of World War II and other conflicts through the lens of memory studies, a discipline that examines how social, cultural, political, and technological shifts affect the ways societies react to and commemorate past conflicts in their national histories.

Program Details

The program includes a 3-hour Spring semester seminar class and a May mini-session study-abroad trip to relevant sites in Europe. All students receive a scholarship to help cover the cost of the mini-session study tour.

Program Name

The beaches of Normandy are an enduring icon of World War II. They exemplify how memory becomes linked to places and sites, as well as how those links change over time. Normandy Scholars participants venture beyond the beach to discover sites of memory related to WWII across Europe.

Program Objectives

The program aims to explore the urgent questions that those beaches still represent: How do we remember the Second World War? What has been forgotten? And what do we still have to learn?

Program Structure

• The program is part of the College of Arts & Sciences.
• It includes a study-abroad trip to relevant sites in Europe.
• All students receive a scholarship to help cover the cost of the mini-session study tour.

Program Availability

The Normandy Scholars Program is on hiatus for the academic year and will return in a future year. Applications will open in Fall 2026, with a deadline likely in late September.

Program Location

The program is based at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

University Information

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is the flagship campus of the University of Tennessee System and partner in the Tennessee Transfer Pathway.