This course is available on the BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Relations and Chinese, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and International Relations. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BSc in International Relations, BSc in International Relations and Chinese, BSc in International Relations and History and BSc in Politics and International Relations. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
10 hours of lectures and 13 hours and 30 minutes of classes in the LT. This course consists of three elements all taught in Lent: a lecture series, classes, and a film series. This course is an advanced undergraduate option. It is a text-based course and not a survey course. That means we will concentrate on a few required readings?read carefully and in-depth. Rather than being given a list of readings for you to select from, you will be given specific, required readings that everyone must read. For each class, you will be doing required reading of approximately half a book, sometimes less. For each lecture, you are given one recommended background reading. In planning your time, you should read first for the class and second for the lectures. It is essential that you do the required reading for each class before class. The lecture series provides concepts, ideas and histories?intellectual scaffolding?against which to read the course texts. It is an essential and helpful aid to your reading. The film series, attendance at which is voluntary, provides an opportunity for sociability and the exploration of course themes in popular cultures.
Students will be expected to produce 1 essay in the LT.
Hew Strachan, Clausewitz's On War: A Biography (New York: Grove Press, 2007) Paul Fussell, The Great War and Modern Memory (New York: Oxford University Press, 1975) William H. McNeill, The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force, and Society since A.D. 1000 (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1982) Michael Sherry, In the Shadow of War: The United States since the 1930s (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995) Anders Engberg-Pedersen, Empire of Chance:The Napoleonic Wars and the Disorder of Things (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2015) Debbie Lisle, Holidays in the Danger Zone: Entanglements of War and Tourism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2016) Antoine Bousquet, The Scientific War of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity (London: Hurst, 2009) Susan Jeffords, The Remasculinization of America: Gender and the Vietnam War (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989) Bruno Cabanes, The Great War and the Origins of Humanitarianism 1918-1924 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Essay (100%, 4000 words) in the LT. The course will be 100% assessed by essay due after the end of term and based on a topic of the student's choice.Students will be given a list of questions to work from and may choose a question provided or develop their own question (based on course texts) in discussion with the course coordinator.