Spring 2022
In Session
Thursdays
1 PM - 4 PM (AZ Time)
March 17, 24, 31, April 7, and 14, 2022
Location:
Main Campus
Tuition:
$185
Attend In Person OR Online!
See Below for full details about our new Hybrid courses
This course centers on the recent, brilliant film 1917 as a touchstone for discussing the literature, film, music, and painting of World War I. Sam Mendez’s movie was nominated for ten academy awards, including best picture, in 2020. The course focuses on four themes: the landscape of the war as surreal; the visual relationship of the film to the painters and poets who depicted the war in vivid terms; the specific allusions to famous literary texts such as Ernest Hemingway’s Farewell to Arms (1929) and Stanley Kubrick’s film Paths of Glory (1957); and the theme of home and homelessness as revealed in pastoral moments in the film.
NEW - Hybrid Course Format
- All classes will be delivered both in person and online via live video streaming. Students will enroll in their preferred format during registration.
- In person classes will be held in the Rubel Room at the University of Arizona's Poetry Center (1508 E Helen St, Tucson, AZ 85721). Enrollment for in person classes is limited by classroom capacity and offered on a first come, first served basis. All students attending on campus will observe the relevant University of Arizona policies designed to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 (more information here). Students who enroll to attend in person will also have complete online access to the course including all class recordings.
- Online students may attend all classes via live video streaming and will be able to participate in all course Q&A sessions with the professor in real time. Students may also access class recordings for a limited time to assist those who may not be able to attend the live class times. Online access will be password protected and only available to enrolled students.
Registration Will Open Online:
Monday, November 22, 2021 at 8 AM (AZ Time)
Required Reading:
- Film: 1917, Directed by Sam Mendes (2019)
- Paul Fussell: The Great War and Modern Memory
- Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)
- T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land. (1922)
- Mary Borden: The Forbidden Zone: A Nurse’s Impressions of the First World War (1929)
- Humphrey Cobb: Paths of Glory (1935)
- Film: Paths of Glory (1957)
