America At War
Spring 2024
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Robert DowDescription
Keeping as our primary concern the viewpoint of the individual as he/she journeys through the landscape of war and his/her memory of that experience, we will examine WWI, WWII, and Vietnam. It is through literature, history and film that this course explores the nature of war. Using these mediums we will examine the experience of the individual during wartime, of those who engaged in battle as well as those who did not. We will ask, how do war stories and films influence our values and attitudes about war? How do these stories make us think and feel? It is in this light that we will discuss the historical and political aspects and, as Kurtz so succinctly puts it in Heart of Darkness, "the horror of war." (Gen. Ed. AL)
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Open to Commonwealth Honors College Students only.
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