THE AMERICAN MILITARY EXPERIENCE SINCE 1899

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: Spring 2022 Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze the United States' rise as a global economic and military power. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. 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 3. 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 4. Analyze the "national security state" that emerged after World War II and its subsequent development. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Explain the United States’s transition to an all-volunteer force. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. 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 7. Assess significant work in the historiography of twentieth- and/or twenty-first-century American military history. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Analyze the United States' rise as a global economic and military power. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 2. 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 3. 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 4. Analyze the "national security state" that emerged after World War II and its subsequent development. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 5. Explain the United States’s transition to an all-volunteer force. Audience: Both Grad & Undergrad 6. 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 7. Assess significant work in the historiography of twentieth- and/or twenty-first-century American military history. Audience: Graduate