Students will be able to:
• Identify the myths, symbols, and tropes that recur in war
literature from various genres
• Discuss the historical and literary contexts of wars 
• Reflect on the ethics of “aestheticizing” war and violence
• Recognize literature’s (in)capacity to humanize others  
• Understand the effects of war on national identity and
political culture
• Understand literature’s role in collective memorialization and
forgetting  
• Learn to read closely and think critically  
• Learn to write stylistically sound prose
• Learn to craft an argument grounded in textual evidence

• Violence and Representation 
• Propaganda and Entertainment
• Atrocity and Bearing Witness  
• Empire and Race
• War, Gender, and Sexuality  
• Veterans and Trauma 
• Memory and Forgetting   

Depending on the instructor, the course may consider literature
and war in a particular national, cultural, or historical 
context (for instance, war and American literature from the 
Civil War to the War on Terror), or may approach the topic 
through a particular theme or problem (for instance, the soldier
in wartime and peacetime).

All students are responsible for reading and abiding by the
University’s academic honesty and integrity policy, A Culture of 
Honesty, which can be found at www.uga.edu/ovpi. Academic 
honesty means performing all academic work without plagiarism, 
cheating, lying, tampering, stealing, receiving unauthorized or 
illegitimate assistance, or using any information that is not
common knowledge.  Suspicions of dishonesty will be reported to 
the Office of the Vice President for Instruction.