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May 06, 2024
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LAS 319 - Work and Warfare in American Culture3 hours
This course investigates the relationship between work and warfare in America today. Not only does war serve as a rich metaphor for thinking about the workplace, but war itself consumes much of the nation’s working energy, and on a vast scale. Through texts as varied as Working (written by beloved Chicago journalist Studs Terkel), Pope John Paul II’s encyclical On Human Work, and Orson Scott Card’s science fiction classic Ender’s Game, we will explore a variety of topics related to work, including gender, violence, economic and material conditions, and concepts of leadership. Students will write two essays and do an interview project, either written or filmed, that is patterned after Terkel’s method in Working.
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