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The Era of World War I (Hist 510:318:H1) ***This is a Draft Syllabus for students interested in learning about some of the topics, assignments, and expectations for this course. The final syllabus will be available in June*** Instructor: Kate Imy E-mail: [email protected] Office Hours: TBD Course Information M/T/W/Th 12:20-2:10pm Classroom: SC 221 July 6th-August 12th Course Description This course focuses on the global impact of the First World War. By thinking about the international and imperial dimensions of the conflict, as well as its lasting impact across Europe, "The Era of World War One" situates "European" history firmly within the wider world. It approaches the history of warfare from diverse perspectives using sources such as film footage, poetry, literature, advertising, wartime propaganda and memoirs. It asks students to think about how these representations of war have shaped contemporary understandings of the conflict while assessing the long-term effects of making and memorializing warfare in a variety of diverse contexts. “The Era of World War I” encourages students to think about the broad social, cultural, economic and political causes and legacies of warfare in the modern world. Course Objectives 1. Strengthen critical thinking skills 2. Learn to interpret and comment thoughtfully upon a variety of materials (text, film, images) by putting them “in conversation” with one another 3. Improve writing by formulating clear and concise arguments supported by primary source evidence 4. Analyze and interrogate “official” stories and narratives of events as well as personal interpretations by considering how they intersect and depart from one another Required Work and Grade Distribution Participation (Attendance and Discussion) (10%) Four single-page response papers (20% Total) One paper on “Representing the War” (20% Total) One Midterm Exam (20%) One Final Exam (30%) 1 Required Texts Hew Strachan, The First World War Vera Brittain, A Testament of Youth Other Required Purchases Watching the film “Wings” (1927) is required for the class session on August 10th and is available for purchase or rent on youtube. Other Readings Other readings listed on the syllabus will be available on the websites provided or posted on sakai. Assignments Response Papers: Each of the four, one-page single-space response papers will ask you to give a thoughtful response to a selected reading by focusing on a single theme central to the cultural transformations of the era. You will explore the following themes through their respective readings: 1. Idealism. A response to Chapters 4 and 6 of Vera Brittains “A Testament of Youth,” due 9 July. 2. Isolation. A Response to selections from T.E. Lawrence’s Seven Pillars of Wisdom, and a selection of Indian soldiers’ letters, due 13 July. 3. Fear. A response to the 1922 German film Nosferatu, due 5 August. 4. Masculinity. A response to a short 1917 film on “War Neuroses” and the 1927 film “Wings.” “Representing the War” Paper: This 2200-2500 word paper asks you to combine the primary source materials used in the course with a minimum of three visual materials (films and images) available online at the public history websites for the Imperial War Museum, National Archives, and British Library. This paper offers you a chance to gain experience in using and citing digital materials in a responsible way. It asks that you use primary source materials to form a clear and coherent argument about how the early stages of the war shaped, and were shaped by, one of the following themes: 1. Food 2. Radicalism 3. Gender 4. Intimacy 5. Death 6. Belief If you wish to explore another theme it must be cleared personally by me at least one week prior to the deadline. Midterm and Final Exam: Both exams will be in-class and require that you describe and discuss several “identifications” (themes and terms of interest to the course) as well write an essay given in a prompt on the day of the exam. 2 Course Schedule Date Day of the Week Subject Lecture Readings 6-Jul Mon Empires in Crisis, Labour and Migration 7-Jul Tue Selections from Modris Eksteins, Rites of Spring: Anarchy, Suffrage and "The Rites of Arts of Irrationality Spring" (sakai) 8-Jul Wed Lines in the Sand: The Boer War, the Balkans, and the Sick Man of Europe 9-Jul Thu 13-Jul Mon The Early War: Volunteers and Martyrs Strachan, Chapter 2 Colonial Soldiers on the Western Front Strachan, Chapter 3 and 4 15-Jul Wed Mutiny, Desertion and Desperation 16-Jul Thu Stalemate in the Trenches Strachan, Chapter 5 and 6 Trench Life Selections from "Death's Men" by Denis Winter (sakai) The Home Front 22-Jul Wed Wartime Mobilities: Blockade, Disease, Trade and Pilgrimages 23-Jul Thu Cowards or Heros? Pacifism in the War 1. Vera Brittain, selections from chapter 4 and 6 ("Learning Versus Response Paper: Youth and Life" and "When the Vision Dies") Idealism in Vera Brittain's A from A Testament of Youth 2. Testament of Youth Excerpts from David Omissi, Indian Voices of the Great War (Sakai) War at the Intersections of Empires 21-Jul Tue Assignments Due Strachan, Chapter 1 14-Jul Tue 20-Jul Mon Discussion Materials Selections from T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom (sakai) Film: The Battle of the Somme. https://www.youtube.com/watch? "Representing the War" v=krT1lX_Dvm0 Paper Due Excerpts from Chapter 9 "This Loneliest Hour" in Vera Brittain, A Testament of Youth Strachan, Chapter 7 3 Response Paper: Wartime Isolation in Indian Letters and T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom 27-Jul Mon MIDTERM 28-Jul Tue Intimacy, Assault and Murder: The Many meanings of Touch MIDTERM 30-Jul Thu Selected Documents by Vladimir Lenin, Revolutionary Dreams: Ghadr, Ireland http://www.firstworldwar.com/so and Russia Chapter 8 Strachan urce/apriltheses.htm Introduction: Paramilitarism in 1. Selected Documents of Europe after the Woodrow Wilson Imperial Aftermath and New World Great War (sakai), http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/ Leaders: The Rise or Demise of EREZ MANELA, 1917_Documents; 2. Full Text: Ho European Empires and The United Woodrow Wilson Chi Minh to Woodrow Wilson States in Asia (sakai) (sakai) 3-Aug Mon A Muddled War and Hurried Peace 29-Jul Wed Chapter 9-10, Strachan 4-Aug Tue Redrawing Maps of the World 5-Aug Wed Profiteers and Red Scares: Success, Suffering and Finger Pointing After the War 6-Aug Thu Rebuilding: Homes Fit for Heros and International "Aid" Projects 1. The Proclamation of Baghdad (http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php /The_Proclamation_of_Baghdad) 2. The Balfour Declaration http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/ The_Balfour_Declaration 3. AngloFrench Joint Statement of Aims in Syria and Mesoptamia http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/ AngloFrench_Joint_Statement_of_Aims_in _Syria_and_Mesopotamia 1. The U.S. Sedition Act http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/ The_U.S._Sedition_Act 2. Nosferatu (1922). https://www.youtube.com/watch? Response Paper: Fear and v=rcyzubFvBsA Nosferatu Selections from Chapter X "Survivors Not Wanted" in A Testament of Youth 10-Aug Mon New Men: "Heros," Trauma, and Disability 1. Video of "War Neuroses" https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=IWHbF5jGJY0&spfreload=10 2. Wings (1927) https://www.youtube.com/watch? Response Paper: Post-war v=P6h-QPvZjGg Masculinity 11-Aug Tue The War to End all War? 12-Aug Wed FINAL EXAM FINAL EXAM 4