HIST 397 - Spring-Term Topics in History

FDR: HU
Credits: 4
Planned Offering: Spring

A seminar in a selected topic or problem in history. May be repeated for degree credit with permission and if the topics are different.

Topics for Spring 2011:

HIST 397A: Winning World War II: U.S. and Allied Grand Strategies, 1940-1945 (4). Prerequisite: 15 credits in HIST or POL and at least sophomore standing. Counts toward the American history area of the history major. The United States fought World War II as part of a coalition, one of the most successful wartime coalitions in history. This seminar explores how and why it did so, and why the Allied effort was so successful. Emphasis is placed on U.S. strategic planning, its relationship to U.S. foreign policies, and the ensuing conflicts between U.S. strategies and policies and those desired by its British and Soviet allies, and the ways in which these conflicts were resolved by Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. As such, it also focuses on civil-military relations and Allied diplomacy during the war, as well as how and why the alliance collapsed after victory had been achieved. Readings include key primary and secondary sources. (HU) Stoler.

HIST 397B: Seminar: The Freedom Ride. (4). An intensive study of the Civil Rights Movement through the lens of the Freedom Riders. This reading- and writing-intensive four-week study includes a two-week tour of major Civil Rights protest sites in the lower Southern United States. (HU). DeLaney