Nov 23, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2024-25
HIST 4742 - The Cold War: a Global History
This course examines international problems of peace and war on worldwide scale since World War II, with a focus on international organizations and alliances. Topics include global balance of power and ideologies, nuclear weapons, strategy and diplomacy, economics, and postcolonial states and societies as well as representations of the Cold War in film, art, and literature.
Requisites: Soph or Jr or Sr
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Learning and Doing, Capstone: Capstone or Culminating Experience
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to frame significant historical questions and engage in discussion and analysis of complex historical issues of great contemporary relevance.
- Students will be able to employ research techniques that historians use.
- Students will be able to employ the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
- Students will be able to apply knowledge of the past to present-day events and experiences.
- Students will be able to place their research in political, diplomatic, economic, social, cultural, and military context.
- Students will be able to to develop informed questions and identify relevant sources that provide information related to these questions.
- Students will be able to critically assess their own written arguments and those of their peers.
- Students will be able to use visual aids (charts, slides, etc.) to communicate effectively about their research to experts and peers.
- Students will be able to critically analyze events by drawing on primary and secondary sources.
- Students will be able to state their conclusions logically and in a priority order.
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