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Week 1

Monday, June 30 Course Overview; Chat room (7-8 p.m. CDT)
 

Overview of Course Plan, Objectives, Requirements, Final Reflections Essay
"Desire to Learn" (D2L)   
Key Concepts:  Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Survivor's Guilt, Resiliency, Forgiveness, Restorative Justice
Film:  "The Soldier's Heart"   (on D2L)  With certain software installed (9 or later of Windows Media player or version 10 of Realplayer), one can view the film online. See this URL for details:  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heart/view/

 

Tuesday, July 1    Surviving after the Dakota-U.S. Army Conflict of 1862
Films:  "Dakota Conflict" and "Dakota Exile" (on D2L)
Reading:  D2L content pages on "Dakota-U.S. Army Conflict and aftermath"


 

Wednesday, July 2 
 

Surviving WWII: Holocaust Survivors

Sidney Finkel  Sevek and the Holocaust: the Boy who Refused to Die
 Film:  "Europa, Europa" (on D2L site)
Reading: D2L content pages on Surviving the Holocaust
 

 

Thursday, July 3  Surviving WWII: Hiroshima and Nagasaki; Japanese-Americans in Internment Camps
 Films:  "Rabbit in the Moon: WWII Japanese-American Internment Camps" or  "Rhapsody in August"  (on D2L)
 

Reading:  Related D2L content pages

 

Friday, July 4  Holiday--no work required


Week 2

 Monday July 7    Surviving Genocide   (online sources)
Film:  "The Lost Boys of Sudan" (on D2L)
Reading:  Related D2L content pages and "My Parents' Bedroom" by Uwem Akpan.  This short story is available online at this site: http://www.newyorker.com/printables/fiction/060612fi_fiction

 

Tuesday, July 8  Surviving Abuse and Family Dysfunction
Dorothy Allison  Two or Three Things I Know for Sure     Click on University of Washington Daily story: Dorothy Allison   and   Queer Cultural Center Dorothy Allison Pages
 Reading:  Related D2L content pages and links
 

 

Wednesday, July 9  Surviving Life-altering Events   (online sources)
Films:  "The Orphan Trains" or "Be Good, Smile Pretty" (both on D2L)
Reading: Related D2L content pages and links
Documentary:  "The Orphan Trains  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/orphan/ 
Documentary: "Be Good, Smile Pretty."  This documentary deals with the experiences of one "second-generation" survivor whose father died in Vietnam.  http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/begoodsmilepretty/
 http://orphansofwar.org/foundation.html    

 

Thursday July 10  Surviving Prejudice, Rejection, Difference  
 

             James McBride  The Color of Water   (memoir in two voices) 
            Click on James McBride's Home page

Online reading assignment (interviews with James McBride):  http://www.sunysb.edu/writrhet/communitytext/mcbrideinterview.html
 http://www.powells.com/authors/mcbride.html


Friday July 11  Surviving Terrorism, Surviving after September 11, 2001 (online sources)

           Reading: Related D2L content pages and links