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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
World War 1: Trauma, Memory, Controversy
This course explored the traumatic effects of World War 1, focusing on how soldiers and civilians dealt with the trauma and memory of it.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Annika Mombauer
Senior Lecturer in History, Faculty of Arts
The Open University
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Investigate casualty statistics and conduct your own research into war losses
- Evaluate visual and poetic historical sources to understand how the First World War affected art and culture
- Discuss your thoughts with other learners on our online platform
- Explore various types of physical and mental trauma suffered by those who experienced the war
- Assess the difficulties historians face in establishing accurate figures about war losses
- Interpret historical propaganda and eyewitness accounts to understand the civilian experience of war
- Reflect on the causes of the First World War
Syllabus
• The effects of the war on combatants and civilians
• New types of injuries and how victims and medical professionals dealt with them
• Casualty figures and how to interrogate them
• Artistic responses to the trauma of war
• How the war has been commemorated
• The debate among historians about the origins of WW1
Issued on 11th September 2020
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