Writing the Civil War

Writing the Civil War is a crosslisted Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies/Social Science course taught by Susan Tracy and Will Ryan.

This course satisfies Division I requirements.

Course Description
This course will explore the questions surrounding the coming of the American Civil War, the war itself and how we have come to remember it today. As much a writing seminar as a history class, the course will focus on selections from the voluminous writing the conflict produced: letters, journals, diaries, and autobiographies; poetry, short stories and novels; biographies and scholarly monographs and articles on various aspects of the debates surrounding the war. These forms of writing will also serve as models for student written work. Students will be expected to participate in class regularly and complete four writing assignments, three of which will be rewritten.

Learning Goals

 * Multi-Cultural
 * Project-based
 * Reading
 * Writing