As part of a campus-wide initiative, the Honors College is offering three specially developed HON 201 seminars this fall that explore the global impact of the First World War and its role in shaping the contemporary world:
- Media, Propaganda and the First World War, John Abbott, Department of History
- “The Yanks Are Everywhere”: British Responses to America during the Great War, Neal McCrillis, Department of History
- Seminar Civilization Without Sexes: The Gender Revolution Inspired by World War I, Jennifer Rupert, Gender & Women’s Studies
11 am, November 11, 2018 is the centenary of the end of “The War to End All Wars,” a war that left nine million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded. The war ushered in a sea change in technology, science, medicine, music, literature, visual art and literature, introducing distinctly modern ways of talking about war, heroism, national identity, race, and gender, and redefining a new global world order. The Honors College will commemorate this seismic event with interdisciplinary programming November 1 – 11, 2018 including roundtable discussions about the Women’s Peace Movement, a poetry recital, and lecture sessions on the role of nurses, the emergence of nationalism, and the ways in which that global conflict was recorded in popular culture and the arts.
For descriptions and other information, see the Fall 2018 Honors Courses Listing.
If you have any questions about the courses or the November programming, please contact Dean McCrillis at mmccrill@uic.edu.
