Intro and Orientation
Intro to Art History and RISD Museum Tour
Intro to Philosophy
Intro to Critical Reading
Intro to History and Images of Ancient Greece
Athenian Democracy, War, and a Pandemic
Ajax / Greek Tragedy
Ajax at Trinity
Hyperion
Intro to Ethical Theory
Just War Theory and Practice
Antigone at Trinity
Ancient World Wrap Up
Writing Respite - Peloponnesian War
Monday 11/1: Slavery, the Civil War, the Sides
Thursday 11/4: Lincoln, Race and Slavery
Monday 11/8: Military Service in the Civil War
Thursday 11/11: The Civil War and Veteran Identity
Monday 11/15: Social aftermath of the Civil War -- Reconstruction
Thursday 11/18: Public Memorials – the Civil War and otherwise
Monday 11/22: Memory and Forgetting – Race, and the legacy of the Civil War
Monday 11/29: Ethics Case Study – the Freedman’s Memorial
Thursday 12/2: Writing Respite - Civil War
Monday 12/6: Letter to My Past Self
Thursday 12/9: Letter to My Past Self Continued
Monday 12/13: Letter to My Past Self Round 3
Thursday 12/16: Final Fall Class
Thursday 1/20: Introduction and Orientation
Monday 1/24: World War I: What Happened, Why, and What Was It Like?
Monday 1/27: World War I in Literature
Monday 1/31: World War I in Art
Thursday 2/3: World War II: What Happened? Why? What Was It Like?
Monday 2/7: Literature of Homecoming
Thursday 2/10: Rockwell's "Four Freedoms"
Monday 2/14: Meaning the Aftermath of War - Existential Responses
Thursday 2/17: War as Tool for Social Change; Public Memory & The Good War
Monday 2/21: All My Sons - Trinity Rep Reading and Discussion
Thursday 2/24: Homecoming and Belonging - Philosophical Perspectives
Monday 2/28: Respite for Writing
Thursday 3/3: Name It To Tame It
Thursday 3/7: Expressive Art Presentation
Thursday 3/10: Origins of American Involvement in Vietnam
Monday 3/14: The draft, combat and strategy
Thursday 3/17: In Country - What Life was Like for American Soldiers
Monday 3/21: Moral Dilemmas in War – My Lai Massacre
Thursday 3/24: Bruises on the Soul: Coming Home, and Moral Injury
Monday 3/28: Vietnam - Art and Public Memory
Thursday 3/31: Providence Memorials
Monday 4/4: Respite for Writing
Thursday 4/7: Music and Memory
Monday 4/11: How and Why Did America Get Involved in Afghanistan?
Thursday 4/14: How and Why Did America Get Involved in Iraq?
Monday 4/18: Literature Post 9-11
Thursday 4/21: How do we end a war?
Monday 4/25: Learning from The Past - Meatgrinder
Thursday 4/28: Female Soldiers and Veterans
Monday 5/2: Moral Injury and Veterans of Iraq/Afghanistan
Thursday 5/5: Art and Disability
Saturday 5/7: Norman Rockwell Museum Trip
Monday 5/9: Tecmessa in the 21st Century
Thursday 5/12: Aesthetic Responses to Existential Challenge
Monday 5/16: Respite for Writing
Thursday 5/19: Bringing It All Together - Final Speech Prep
Monday 5/23: Final Line of Departure
Thursday 5/26: Graduation - Speech Delivery