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Dec 15, 2025
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HIST 5750 - World War I
Covers the course of the “Great War” including its origins, conduct and aftermath. We will consider the military, diplomatic, and cultural factors that led to the outbreak of the war as well as how and why European governments and peoples were willing and able to sustain and expand their war. In addition to an intensive focus on the fighting itself the war’s great battles as well as the experience of combat of ordinary soldiers special topics will include (among others) the Armenian genocide, the deployment of WMDs (including both poison gas and blockades), wartime technological and military developments, the war at sea, the break-up of multi-national empires and the changing understanding and representation of the war.
Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,PR,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Student’s work demonstrates critical use and proper citation of both primary and secondary sources.
- Student’s work employs the formal styles of writing, argumentation, and presentation that historians use.
- Student’s work reflects an understanding of historiographic traditions.
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