Humanities Program
GES246: Sophomore Spring SemesterWestern Humanity in Christian Perspective IVWestern Culture from World War I to the Postmodern Era |
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This is the last of a four-course sequence centered on great writings and works of art, music, theatre, and literature from the Greeks through the present. |
Sample Texts: |
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Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents. Elie Wiesel, Night. F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby. T. S. Eliot, Waste Land and other Poems. Thomas Kuhn, Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Flannery O'Connor, Complete Stories. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship. François Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper." John Paul II, Centesimus Annus. The Barmen Declaration. Martin Luther King, Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Karl Barth, The Epistle to the Romans (exerpt). |
Sample Lectures that support the reading: |
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Barth, World War I, and the Resurgence of Eschatology Freud, Scientific Materialism, and the Crisis of Western Civilization Modernism in Literature: Fitzgerald Expressionism, Dada, and the Surreal Science and Epistemology Forerunners to World War II: Economic Depression, Fascisim and Totalitarianism World War II, the Emergence of U. S. Power, and the Creation of Israel Post-War and Postmodern Art Bonhoeffer and the Resurgence of Trinitarian Theology Expressionism and Modernism in Music Postmodern Epistemology Postwar U. S.: Civil Rights Movements, the Welfare State The Cold War and Collapse of Global Communism Global Christianity: Pentecostalism and "The Next Christendom" |