IAH 231B: Human Conflict and Moral Issues

Focus: The United States and World War II
Location UK, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and Germany
Instructor Jeff Charnley, Ph.D.
Course Syllabus

This course considers the key role that moral issues have played in the course of human conflict with a particular focus on the United States and Europe during World War II. The class will combine an on-campus phase of intensive study followed by four weeks in Europe where students will visit locations where some of the critical decisions were made and the actual events happened during World War II. Other issues to be studied and considered will be the relationship between history and memory and to assess the role of moral issues as they developed and changed during World War II. Understanding how eyewitness testimony concerning moral issues has shaped history will be an additional focal point for study in the course.