AMS 320 - Advanced Studies in American Military History (3)

This course will furnish upper-level UK ROTC Cadets, and qualified History majors or minors with the methodological tools and materials needed to gain a more detailed understanding of American Military History and to put together a major research paper. AMS 320 will emphasize basic research skills: understanding historiographical debates within a military framework, developing effective note taking, outlining techniques, picking a feasible research topic, finding useful primary sources and drawing inferences from them, examining American military campaigns and leaders in order to complete a battle analysis, and short research assignments.

Prerequisite(s): Consent of instructor
Grading Method: Letter Grade
Term Typically Offered: Off-Campus Program