Department of History

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Alexander Bay, Ph.D., Chair

The Master of Arts in War and Society is either a one-year accelerated program or a two-year, interdisciplinary course of study that expands the study of warfare beyond its military, diplomatic and political dimensions by examining the social and cultural aspects of how societies go to war, experience war and its consequences. The thematic areas that comprise the war and society program are: war and race, war and gender, war and empire, war and justice, war and migration, war and culture, war and science, war and the military experience and war and the Holocaust. Methodologically the program emphasizes exploring theoretical frameworks, professional historical practices and diverse historical materials including written, visual and oral historical evidence.

Degrees

• War and Society, M.A.

• Accelerated Bachelor of Arts/Master of Arts in War and Society

Courses

• HIST 503 - Moving History Forward: Perspectives on the Holocaust
• HIST 510 - History Readings Seminar in War and Society
• HIST 510a - Readings in War and American Society
• HIST 510b - Readings in Global War in the Twentieth Century
• HIST 510c - Readings in Home Fronts and War
• HIST 510d - War, Identity and Memory
• HIST 520 - History Research Seminar in War and Society
• HIST 520a - War and Grand Strategy in the Modern Era
• HIST 520b - Memoirs of War and Resistance
• HIST 520c - Migration and War
• HIST 520d - The Soldier’s War
• HIST 529 - Experimental Course
• HIST 596 - Advanced Research Thesis I
• HIST 598 - Advanced Research Thesis II
• HIST 599 - Individual Study
• HIST 696 - Master’s Thesis Research and Writing I
• HIST 698 - Thesis
• HIST 698A - Thesis: Continuous Enrollment
• HIST 698B - Thesis: Extended Continuous Enrollment

• WS 500 - Historical Approaches to War and Society
• WS 529 - Experimental Course
• WS 530 - Selling War: Propaganda, Disinformation, and Censorship
• WS 547 - Special Topics in War and Society

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