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HIST 180 - FS: First-Year Seminar


FDR: HU
Credits: 3


First-year seminar. Prerequisite: First-year standing. Topics vary by term and instructor.

Fall 2017, HIST 180-01: FS: Uncovering W&L’s Past HIST (3). First-Year Seminar. Prerequisite: First-year class standing.  180-01 is a research seminar that will be reading and writing intensive, and focus on the African American past of W&L and other colleges. We will focus solely on archival research and the issues that eastern colleges have dealt with in reclaiming this past. (HU) DeLaney.

Fall 2017, HIST 180-02:  FS: The War to End All Wars. First-Year Seminar (3). Prerequisite: First-year class standing. Idealists in Britain and the USA justified participation in the First World War by arguing that it would end all wars, but the horrific reality of battle confounded their expectations. In this writing-intensive seminar, we analyze four very different literary accounts of the experience of war: an autobiography of a British officer who became a pacifist in the trenches; an autobiographical novel by a patriotic German who never lost faith in his nation’s cause; a collection of poems by British women who served as munitions workers or nurses; and the memoir of the “Arab Revolt” against Ottoman Turkish rule by “Lawrence of Arabia”. Students are asked to ponder what lessons can be learned today from the “Great War” of 1914-1918. (HU) Patch.

 




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