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CNX 165 - War and Trauma

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Why are wars fought? Who fights them? What are the long-term effects? This course explores representations of war from Homer’s The Iliad to Kevin Powers’ The Yellow Birds (2012). We will also investigate war from the perspective of other disciplines, including Psychology, Political Science, Philosophy, and Film. Literary texts might include Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, and Phil Klay’s Redeployment. The course is writing intensive.
Credits: 1

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