War Stories (ILCS-0075)

Fall 2025 · ILCS 0075 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

Examination of how war has been represented in fiction, non-fiction, memoir, film, and documentary. Priority given to Russian and East European materials, supplemented by other European, Asian, and American texts of the 19th and (mainly) 20th and 21st centuries. Focus on strategies employed by writers, journalists, historians, and film makers in depicting war in different cultures and from differing points of view. Operative questions include: challenges of representing war in a text or onscreen; commonalities and differences in how war is rendered; and how these questions impact the understanding of conflicts. The course goal is to develop sophisticated skills for understanding, deciphering, critiquing and dissecting the ways in which war and conflict are presented, and to recognize the ideological and aesthetic strategies behind these representations. All texts and discussion in English.

Course codes: ILCS-0075, ILCS 0075, ILCS0075, ILCS-75, ILCS 75, ILCS75, ILVS-0083, ILVS 0083, ILVS0083, ILVS-83, ILVS 83, ILVS83, RUS-0075, RUS 0075, RUS0075, RUS-75, RUS 75, RUS75

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