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Subject: English (UG) (ENGL)
CRN: 42555
Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 308
Old Core Requirements Met:
UG Core Literature/Writing
Other Requirements Met:
Genre Study
Writing to learn
What constitutes a true war story? Who gets to decide? And is an accurate representation by any single voice or ideology even possible given the human dimensions of warfare? In this course, we will listen to a multiplicity of voices from the front line and the home front, beginning with the legacy of the Civil War and closing with contemporary writings about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. We will study what these authors have to tell us about war, gender, and identity in their time and in ours. And through our shared exploration we will come to a fuller appreciation of what Ernest Hemingway, a lifelong eyewitness to war, meant when he wrote, “Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.” Likely authors to be studied include Crane, Cather, Hemingway, Komunyakaa, and Fallon. This course satisfies the core Literature and Writing requirement for students who started that requirement with an ENGL 201-204 class, satisfies the Genre Studies requirement for English and English with Creative Writing majors, and counts as an allied course for select business majors. This course also satisfies the WAC Writing to Learn requirement. Prerequisite: ENGL 201, 202, 203, or 204.
4 Credits