HIST 400

Fall 2016 Part of Term 1

Part of Term 1
Aug 22-Dec 7

War, Soc, Politics, & Culture

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Credit: 2 TO 4 hours.

Topics will be listed in the department's course guide at http://www.history.illinois.edu.

3 undergraduate hours. 2 to 4 graduate hours. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours or 8 graduate hours in the same or subsequent terms if topics vary.

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HIST 400 class schedule data for fall 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	66993	Lecture-Discussion	A	2:00PM -3:20PM	TR	Gregory Hall	Djordjevic, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 08/22/16-12/07/16 Credit: 3 hours Section Info: This course explores the relationship between warfare, culture, and society beginning in the Enlightenment and culminating with the recent Yugoslav Wars and the on-going War on Terror. During the semester, we will discuss battles seared in the popular imagination such as Antietam, Omaha beach, and Waterloo as well as lesser known, yet equally significant, killing fields including Koniggratz, Lucknow, and the Masurian Lakes. To understand war and its role in history, we will place wars and warriors witin a matrix of social, cultural, intellectual, and moral relations and assumptions. Soldiers and commanders went into battle armed not only with weapons but also with culturally and socially informed "baggage" which radically affected how they reacted to, thought about, and experienced combat. During the semester, we will come to recognize the reciprocity between war, culture, and society: While inquiring into the cultures of combat, we witness cultures and societies transformed by combat. Our discussion of war engages with critical themes and debates in modern history: Masculinity and gender, race, social conflict, civil-military relations, nationalism, modernization, and the Arts. Lecture and discussion are supplemented by readings penned by leading military and cultural historians, personal testimony by veterans, contemporary poetry and prose, visual and musical works of art, and finally films.