Instruction Mode: Online
Professor: Alexander Hollenberg
Resource(s): | Type | Description | Required | Textbook | All Quiet on the Western Front, Erick Maria Remarque, ISBN 978-0-449-21394-0 |
Required | Textbook | Survival in Auschwitz, Primo Levi, ISBN 978-0-684-82680-6 |
Required | Textbook | Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut, ISBN 978-0-440-18029-6 |
Applicable student group(s): N/A
Course Details: Module 1: World War I
Unit 1: Introduction and Online Orientation
Unit 2: World War I and the Poetry of the Trenches
Readings: Thomas Hardy, “Channel Firing;” Jessie Pope, “War Girls;” Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est,” “Anthem for Doomed Youth, “Spring Offensive;” Katherine Tynan “A Lament;” Siegfried Sassoon, “The Kiss,” “The Poet as Hero;” Amy Lowell, “In the Stadium;” William Butler Yeats, “Easter, 1916”
Quiz #1 Due (8%)
Unit 3: Women Writing War
Readings:
Rebecca West, “The Cordite Makers,”
Mary Borden, “Conspiracy,” from The Forbidden Zone
Helen Zenna Smith, selection from Not So Quiet: Stepdaughters of War
Online Discussion #1 Due (10%)
Module 2: Anti-War Aesthetics
Unit 4: The War Novel and Understanding Enemies
Readings: Erich Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
Quiz #2 Due (8%)
Unit 5: War and Narrative Technique
Readings: Ernest Hemingway, selections from In Our Time: chapters II, III, IV, VI, VII, “Soldier’s Home,” “Big Two-Hearted River”
Elizabeth Bowen, “Oh, Madam…”
Unit 6: Private Wars: Diaries and Letters
Kathe Kollwitz, selection from The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz
Iris Origo, selection from War in Val d’Orcia
Selections from the Canadian Letters and Images Project
Quiz #3 Due (8%)
Module 3: World War II
Unit 7: The Holocaust Narrative
Readings: Primo Levi, Survival in Auschwitz (selections)
Online Discussion #2 Due (10%)
Unit 8: Representing Trauma and Truth
Readings: Etty Hillesum, selection from Letters from Westerbork
Sara Nomberg-Przytyk, “Friendly Meetings”
Charlotte Delbo, “Weiter”
Quiz #4 Due (8%)
Module 4: Anti-War Aesthetics II
Unit 9: Fictionalizing War in Film
Film: Schindler’s List, dir. Steven Spielberg
Online Discussion #3 Due (10%)
Unit 10: Deconstructing Heroism
Readings: Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Quiz #5 Due (8%)
Final Essay Due (30%)