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Syllabus |
Links Used in Class |
Recruitment Paper |
Remembering WWI Presentation |
| Date |
Topic |
Readings & Assignments |
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Wednesday
22 Aug 18 |
Introduction & The Basics of World War I |
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| Friday 24 Aug 18 |
War nurse: myths and realities |
Veiled Warriors, Introduction |
| Monday 27 Aug 18
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A Call to Action |
Veiled Warriors, Chapter 1 |
| Wednesday 29 Aug 18 |
The culture of caregiving |
Healing the Nation, Chapter 1 |
| Friday 31 Aug 18 |
Appealing to women to replace men | "Women in World War One propaganda" "Women's Mobilization for War - France" |
| Monday 3 Sept 18 |
Objections to medical women at the front |
"Can Women Physicians Serve in the Army?" |
| Wednesday 5 Sept 18 |
No class...enjoy! | Work on Recruitment Proposal |
| Friday 7 Sept 18 |
No class...enjoy! |
Work on Recruitment Proposal |
| Monday 10 Sept 18 |
Proofread Recruitment Proposals in class... |
Recruitment Proposal Due @ Midnight |
| Wednesday 12 Sept 18 |
The Western Front |
Veiled Warriors, Chapter 2 |
| Friday 14 Sept 18 |
The Western Front | Veiled Warriors, Chapter 5 |
| Monday 17 Sept 18 |
Skype session with Bridget Keown, Northeastern University - Listening to Women: Accessing Women’s Pain from First World War Pension Records - “Bought some souvenirs as usual and a cheese:” Nurses’ Lives Outside the Hospital in the First World War |
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| Wednesday 19 Sept 18 |
Types of hospitals |
Healing the Nation, Chapter 2 |
| Friday 25 Sept 18 |
Types of hospitals | Healing the Nation, Chapter 3 |
| Monday 24 Sept 18 |
Proofreading session at class time... |
Annotated Bibliography Due @ Midnight |
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Wednesday
26 Sept 18 |
The Russian and Serbian Fronts |
Veiled Warriors, Chapter 3 |
| Friday 28 Sept 18 |
The Eastern Mediterranean |
Veiled Warriors, Chapter 4 |
| Monday 1 Oct 18 |
War of Attrition on All Fronts | Veiled Warriors, Chapter 6 |
| Wednesday 3 Oct 18 |
Proofreading session at class time... |
Recruitment Paper Due @ Midnight |
| Friday 5 Oct 18 |
Edith Cavell's capture & execution |
"The Mythic Matters of Edith Cavell: Propaganda, Legend, Myth, and Memory" (Handout) |
| Monday 8 Oct 18 |
Writing & convalescence |
Healing the Nation, Chapter 4 |
| Wednesday 10 Oct 18 |
Writing & convalescence | Healing the Nation, Chapter 5 |
| *** FALL BREAK *** |
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| Wednesday 17 Oct 18 |
What is shell shock? |
Regeneration, Part 1 |
| Friday 19 Oct 18 |
Treatment methods |
Regeneration, Part 2 |
| Monday 22 Oct 18 |
Cowardice & repression |
Regeneration, Part 3 |
| Wednesday 24 Oct 18 |
Poetry as commemoration |
Regeneration, Part 4 |
| Thursday 25 Oct 18 |
Watch Behind the Lines in the Pattee Auditorium @ 7:30 p.m. |
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| Friday 26 Oct 18 |
No class...enjoy! |
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| Monday 29 Oct 18 |
No class, due to water main break! |
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| Wednesday 31 Oct 18 |
Comparative perspective | “The Collective Mind: Trauma and Shell-Shock in Twentieth-Century Russia” (Handout) |
| Friday 2 Nov 18 |
Comparative perspective | “‘Who are these?’ Nursing shell-shocked patients in Cardiff during the First World War” (Handout) |
| Monday 5 Nov 18 |
Proofreading session at class time… |
Regeneration/Behind the Lines Paper Due @ Midnight |
| Wednesday 7 Nov 18 |
Innovative treatments: Physiotherapy |
“Australian Physiotherapists in the First World War” (Handout) |
| Friday 9 Nov 18 |
Innovative treatments: Prosthetics |
“Better Legs: Artificial Limbs for British Veterans of the First World War” (Handout) |
| Monday 12 Nov 18 |
Armistice 1918 | Healing the Nation, Chapter 6 & 7 & Veiled Warriors, Chapter 7 & Conclusion |
| Wednesday 14 Nov 18 |
A ‘mysterious malady’ | Stacking the Coffins, Chapter 1 |
| Friday 16 Nov 18 |
News of the flu | Stacking the Coffins, Chapter 2 |
| Monday 19 Nov 18 |
Counting the ill and the dead |
Stacking the Coffins, Chapters 3 & 4 |
| *** THANKSGIVING BREAK *** | ||
| Monday 26 Nov 18 |
No class...SNOW DAY!!! |
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| Wednesday 28 Nov 18 |
Doctors and hospitals | Stacking the Coffins, Chapters 5 & 6 |
| Friday 30 Nov 18 |
Eyewitnesses | Stacking the Coffins, Chapter 7 |
| Monday 3 Dec 18 |
Influenza as political propaganda Plus Interview & Presentation Prep |
Stacking the Coffins, Chapters 8 & 9 |
| Wednesday 5 Dec 18 |
Skype Session with Dr. Ida Milne, Carlow College & Queen’s University Belfast - "Deadly 1918 flu pandemic infected every walk of Irish life" |
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| Tuesday 11 Dec 18 |
6:30 p.m. – Remembering WWI Presentations |
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