Fall 2008 Courses (subject to change)

Link to ELMS (www.elms.umd.edu)

Faculty across the College of Arts and Humanities and the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences have developed special courses or segments of CORE courses to coincide with A Semester on War and the Representation of War. Participating faculty and students: visit the Semester on War Commons in ELMS.

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Anthropology

ANTH 368I: Peace building, Post-Conflict Reconstruction, and International Development (Grayzel)

Art History

ARTH 749: Seminar in Nineteenth-Century European Art:  The Visual Culture of War, 1750 to 1930 (Hargrove)

Classics

CLAS 309W: Special Topics in Classical Literature: Warfare in the Classical World (Rutledge)

Communication

COMM 468   Seminar in Mediate Communication:  Arab Media (Khamis)
COMM 748   The Rhetoric of the Presidency: U.S. Nationalism, Citizenship, and War (Parry-Giles)

English

ENGL 205: Introduction to Shakespeare (Mack)
ENGL 211: Early English Literature and War (Maffuccio)
ENGL 379J: Special Topics in Literature:  Representing the Holocaust (Jelen)
ENGL 379K: Special Topics in Literature:  Women's Writing During Wartime (Smith and Rudy)
ENGL 379L: Special Topics in Literature:  Graphic Novels and the Representation of War (Macri)
ENGL 379M: Special Topics in Literature:  Plays In Performance: Plays about World War I (Olmert)
ENGL 403: Shakespeare: The Early Works (Mack)
ENGL 428X: Seminar in Language and Literature: Shakespeare and War (Leinwand)
ENGL 431: American Literature, 1810-1865: The American Renaissance: Literature of War in 19th Century United States (Levine)
ENGL 437: Contemporary American Literature (Kauffman)
ENGL 478J: Selected Topics in English and American Literature before 1800: Oratory and War (Valiavitcharska)
ENGL 478P: Selected Topics in English and American Literature: War Against God: Order and Disorder in John Milton and Lucy Hutchinson (Coles)
ENGL 479D: Selected Topics in English and American Literature:  Tolkien on War (Flieger)
ENGL 479F: Contemporary Literature, Media, and the State in an Age of Terror (Kauffman)
ENGL 489Q: Special Topics in English Language:  Language and War (Coleman)
ENGL 758C: Literary Criticism and Theory:  Affect Theory (W. Cohen)

German

GERM 828A: The 18th Century: Gender and War (Koser)

Government and Politics

GVPT 309A: Politics of War: From Vietnam to Iraq (Vietri)
GVPT 403: Law, Morality, War and Terrorism (Franda)
GVPT 409D: International Security (Kaminski)
GVPT 409H: Seminar in International Relations and World Politics: War (Quester)
GVPT 409L: Seminar in International Relations and World Politics: Domestic Politics and International Conflict (Croco)
GVPT 409N: Seminar in International Relations and World Politics: US and United Nations (Conca)

History

HIST 224: Modern Military History, 1494-1815 (Francis)
HIST 329B: The Korean War on Film (Lilley)
HIST 408B: Senior Seminar: Asia Pacific War & Occupation of Japan (Mayo)
HIST 408W: Senior Seminar: From the "Kosovo Maiden" to the Good Soldier Svejk: War in Eastern Europe and its Representations (K. David-Fox)
HIST 429C: The English Civil Wars, 1629-1660 (Baron)
HIST 437: Modern France from Napoleon to DeGaulle (Sutherland)
HIST 442: Twentieth-Century Russia (M. David-Fox)
HIST 443: Modern Balkan History (Lampe)
HIST 482: History of Japan to 1800 (Mayo)
HIST 491: History of the Ottoman Empire (Zilfi)

Honors

HONR 249X: Honors Seminar: War and the Warrior in Medieval Literature (Moser)
HONR 249Z: Troy Matters: Tales Told and Retold (Coleman)

Japanese

JAPN418A: The Atomic Bomb in Literature and Memory: Japan and the United States (Mason)

Jewish Studies

JWST 419I: Representing the Holocaust (Jelen)
JWST 468A: Readings in the Hebrew Bible: War in Bible and Ancient Near East (Berlin)

Philosophy

PHIL 446: Law, Morality, and War (Hoitink)

Public Affairs

PUAF798C: Readings in Public Policy: Interantional Law and Institutions (Levine)

Spanish

SPAN 408M: Great Themes of the Hispanic Literatures: Women and War in Latin America (Cypess)
SPAN 408N: Great Themes of the Hispanic Literatures: The Spanish Civil War and its Aftermath (Naharro-Calderón)

Sociology

SOCY 463: The Sociology of Combat (Segal)
SOCY 465: The Sociology of War (Kestnbaum)

Women's Studies

WMST 498L: Advanced Special Topics in Women's Studies: Women and War, Feminism and Militarism (King)