HIST 258

Fall 2014 All Classes

All Classes

20thC World to Midcentury

Credit: 3 hours.

Economic, social, political, and cultural developments in twentieth-century world history from late nineteenth-century to Second World War era.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Humanities – Hist & Phil

Cultural Studies - Western

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HIST 258 class schedule data for fall 2014
CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
63169	Discussion/ Recitation	AD1	10:00AM -10:50AM	T	137 Armory	Fritzsche, P Chaplin, T Marquez, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Degree Notes: Hist&Philosoph Perspect, and Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: Topic: World War I and the Making of the Global 20th Century. Meets with CWL 199, Section: AD1, CRN: 63421; FR 199, Section: AD1, CRN: 32544; GER 199, Section: AD1, CRN: 63388, and REES 296, Section: AD1, CRN: 63525.
63170	Discussion/ Recitation	AD2	11:00AM -11:50AM	R	325 David Kinley Hall	Fritzsche, P Chaplin, T White, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Degree Notes: Hist&Philosoph Perspect, and Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: Topic: World War I and the Making of the Global 20th Century. Meets with CWL 199, Section: AD2, CRN: 63422; FR 199, Section: AD2, CRN: 32541; GER 199, Section: AD2, CRN: 63408, and REES 296, Section: AD2, CRN: 63526.
63171	Discussion/ Recitation	AD3	10:00AM -10:50AM	R	325 David Kinley Hall	Fritzsche, P Chaplin, T White, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Degree Notes: Hist&Philosoph Perspect, and Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: Topic: World War I and the Making of the Global 20th Century. Meets with CWL 199, Section: AD3, CRN: 63423; FR 199, Section: AD3, CRN: 63402; GER 199, Section: AD3, CRN: 63409, and REES 296, Section: AD3, CRN: 63527.
63172	Discussion/ Recitation	AD4	11:00AM -11:50AM	T	137 Armory	Fritzsche, P Chaplin, T Marquez, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Degree Notes: Hist&Philosoph Perspect, and Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: Topic: World War I and the Making of the Global 20th Century. Meets with CWL 199, Section: AD4, CRN: 63424; FR 199, Section: AD4, CRN: 63403; GER 199, Section: AD4, CRN: 63410, and REES 296, Section: AD4, CRN: 63528.
63173	Discussion/ Recitation	AD5	11:00AM -11:50AM	F	333 Armory	Fritzsche, P Chaplin, T White, M	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Degree Notes: Hist&Philosoph Perspect, and Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: Topic: World War I and the Making of the Global 20th Century. Meets with CWL 199, Section: AD5, CRN: 63425; FR 199, Section: AD5, CRN: 63404; GER 199, Section: AD5, CRN: 63411, and REES 296, Section: AD5, CRN: 63529.
63174	Discussion/ Recitation	AD6	10:00AM -10:50AM	F	333 Armory	Fritzsche, P Chaplin, T Marquez, J	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Degree Notes: Hist&Philosoph Perspect, and Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: Topic: World War I and the Making of the Global 20th Century. Meets with CWL 199, Section: AD6, CRN: 63426; FR 199, Section: AD6, CRN: 63406; GER 199, Section: AD6, CRN: 63413, and REES 296, Section: AD6, CRN: 63530.
63168	Lecture	AL1	11:00AM -11:50AM	MW	213 Gregory Hall	Fritzsche, P Chaplin, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/25/14-12/10/14 Degree Notes: Hist&Philosoph Perspect, and Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: Topic: World War I and the Making of the Global 20th Century. Description: "You will be home before the leaves have fallen from the trees." --Kaiser Wilhelm II to German soldiers, August 1914. This year, 2014, marks the hundredth anniversary of the onset of World War I. Lasting from 1914 to 1918 and known as "The Great War" to those unaware that more carnage would soon blight the history of the twentieth century, World War I stands as the first incarnation in human history of modern industrial warfare on a truly global scale. This bloody conflict permanently recast the ways in which nations and peoples have considered, experienced and commemorated not just military conflict, but both Western and global culture, society, industry, politics and economics writ large. Our class, which will be team-taught by Professors Tamara Chaplin and Peter Fritzsche, attempts to come to grips with World War I's astonishing historical legacy. Our canvas is broad: we will not only learn about the chronology of the war--from its origins and military operations, to its political ramifications (including the demise of imperial empires and the rise of Soviet socialist communism), to competing experiences of battlefront and home front (with their technological and industrial innovations--including such diverse aspects as aerial and trench warfare, the use of gas and chemical weapons, food rationing, war bonds and the feminization of the workforce), but we will also study the war's psychological and embodied effects (shell-shock, trauma, amputation, prosthetics, plastic surgery and disability) as well as the artistic and cultural attempts to acknowledge, represent and memorialize its devastation (in poetry, art, music, dance, theatre, film and literature). Our sources will be equally varied; we will read history, fiction and memoir, examine newspaper coverage, cartoons, propaganda posters, photographs and film and analyze geographic, architectural and cartographic evidence of World War I's destruction and commemoration. We also hope to think hard together about how this history has shaped our present concerns, from our attitudes towards such issues as terrorism and human rights, to our understandings of masculinity, sexuality and gender, to our ideas about peace-making, revolution, religion and global apocalypse. To aid us in our work, our class will benefit from a series of guest lectures and presentations from specialists in other disciplinary fields. If you are interested in exploring the ways in which modern warfare continues to shape the world in which we live, this class is for you. Meets with CWL 199, Section: AL1, CRN: 63420; FR 199, Section: AL1, CRN: 63407; GER 199, Section: AL1, CRN: 63414, and REES 296, Section: AL1, CRN: 63531.
54190	Lecture-Discussion	B	9:00AM -10:50AM	MWF	106B3 Engineering Hall	Harris, D	Part of Term: B Date Range: 10/20/14-12/10/14 Degree Notes: Hist&Philosoph Perspect, and Western Compartv Cult course. Section Info: Description: This course examines the historical impact of events of the first half of the 20th century on contemporary and future global history. While critically evaluating events in Europe itself from World War I onward, we will also seek to broaden the discussion by looking outward to how such events had a ripple effect on issues such as global decolonization, nationalism, cultural and economic imperialism and a general shift in concepts of identity and the role of the individual in a new and vastly changed world.