THE AMERICAN MILITARY EXPERIENCE TO 1902

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Sophomore standing. Not open to students with credit for HISTORY 345 . Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities or Social Science Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2021 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe the diverse military traditions that collided in colonial America and how and why these different "ways of war" evolved to the dawn of the twentieth century. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Analyze the twin development of the American citizen-soldier tradition and the American profession of arms. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Explain how political, cultural, economic, and technological factors influenced American military institutions, decisions to go to war, and the conduct of military operations. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Explain how and why American military policies, institutions, and practices changed or remained consistent over time and assess if there are persistent themes or areas of continuity that constitute a distinctly "American way of war." Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Analyze warfare as a human experience endured on the battlefield, at sea, in the sky, on the home front, at desolate outposts, and in councils of government. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Assess the relationship between national expansion (in physical, commercial, and ideological sense) and American military history. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Assess significant work in the historiography of early and/or nineteenth-century American military history. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify and describe the diverse military traditions that collided in colonial America and how and why these different "ways of war" evolved to the dawn of the twentieth century. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. Analyze the twin development of the American citizen-soldier tradition and the American profession of arms. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 3. Explain how political, cultural, economic, and technological factors influenced American military institutions, decisions to go to war, and the conduct of military operations. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 4. Explain how and why American military policies, institutions, and practices changed or remained consistent over time and assess if there are persistent themes or areas of continuity that constitute a distinctly "American way of war." Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Analyze warfare as a human experience endured on the battlefield, at sea, in the sky, on the home front, at desolate outposts, and in councils of government. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. Assess the relationship between national expansion (in physical, commercial, and ideological sense) and American military history. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 7. Assess significant work in the historiography of early and/or nineteenth-century American military history. Audience: Graduate