| Course Title |
EMERGENCY OF A SUPERPOWER: US POLITICAL HISTORY AND FOREIGN POLICY SINCE 1783 |
| Course Code |
AH4302 |
| Credit |
4 |
| Semester Offered |
1 |
| Duration of Courses |
|
| Degree |
Undergraduate |
| Programme |
Bachelor of Arts |
| Course Description |
This course seeks to explain how the US became a world power in the twentieth century by
examining the important domestic developments that shaped it as a nation, and by
exploring the changing nature of its foreign relations.
|
| Prerequisite |
None
|
| Other Description |
Forming a union: the war of independence and the US constitution; slavery and the
American Civil War; the Wild West and the expansion of the union; America and the First
World War; isolationism and prewar politics; America at war, 1941-45; Cold War politics;
Vietnam and US policy in Asia.
|
| Language of Instruction |
English
|
