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Class number:
2709
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Title: Civil War Literature |
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Department: English |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
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Current enrollment: 14 |
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Available seats: 1 |
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Start date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025 |
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End date: Friday, May 9, 2025 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: TR: 9:25AM-10:40AM, SH - N128 |
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Instructor(s): Hager, Christopher |
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Prerequisite(s): None |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets Humanities Requirement |
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Note: For majors enrolled before December 2023, this course fulfills the requirement of a course emphasizing literature written between 1700-1900. For majors enrolled after January 2024, this course fulfills the post 1800 requirement or may be an elective/additional literature or film course. |
Course Description:
Americans of the 1860s lived through one of the most profound upheavals in their nation's history. Hundreds of thousands of people died to subdue what northerners called "the Rebellion" and southerners called "the Confederate States of America"-a political and military effort to subvert US democracy and perpetuate the enslavement of millions. By exploring that era's literary productions-stories, poems, diaries, letters, and more-this course examines the pivotal role that reading and writing, the human imagination and expressive media, play in the lived experience of historic events: ideological polarization, political violence, rapid technological change, military conflict, social revolution. In addition to reading widely in texts of the 1860s, students will undertake independent projects inflected by historical research, creative writing, and/or media studies. |