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Click on the name of an online history graduate course to view the detailed information; you can also find out about the college or university offering the category by clicking on "School's Profile". |
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History of the Family (OC540) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a study of the family?s evolution as a societal movement from its origins through modern times. Course topics include family?s contributions as a social, cultural, religious, economic, and security unit; the changing role of the family over time; comparison of the family as organizing unit versus other forms; and the outlook for the family in the 21st Century. |
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History of the Juvenile Criminal Justice System (HS8212) |
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Capella University |
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This course offers an intensive study of the juvenile criminal justice system and process. Theories of causation and innovative intervention approaches, such as "drug courts", will be examined. The course will review the dramatic increase of juvenile violence and crime in American culture over the last quarter century. It will focus upon the debate between "root causes" for juvenile violence and crime versus the survivability of the children's court system. |
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History of the Royal Air Force (AW509) |
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American Public University |
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AW509, History of the Royal Air Force, encompasses the history of the air arm of the British defense establishment from its early days as an aerial adjunct of the army and navy (Royal Flying Corps), through the establishment of an independent Service, the Royal Air Force (RAF), in 1918 and concluding in the post-colonial period (1970s). Major emphasis is placed on the strategic assumptions and command structure of the junior Service, as well as operational aspects of the two world wars and several imperial actions. Specific themes include: evolution of the strategic bombing theory; establishment of Fighter, Coastal and Bomber Commands; preparations for war in the late 1930s; implementation of a strategic bombing strategy in World War II; senior leadership; aerial tactics; logistics; technological developments and advancements in aircraft designs and avionics; training; and administration. |
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History of the U.S. Air Force (AW515) |
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American Public University |
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The history of the United States Air Force from its earliest conception, roots in the Army Air Corps, separation from the Army in 1947, and contemporary issues of the present day. |
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History of the U.S. Coast Guard (NW513) |
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American Public University |
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A historical study of the development of the missions and organization of the US Coast Guard in war and peace with emphasis on wartime roles, ongoing participation in the drug interdiction campaign, and diverse peacetime missions. |
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History of the U.S. Navy I (NW532) |
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American Public University |
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The history of the United States Navy from its birth to the conclusion of World War I. The course will stress the impact of world wide innovations in naval power, which have required changes in the United States concept of sea power. |
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History of the U.S. Navy II (NW533) |
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American Public University |
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A continuation of NW532, tracing the history of the U.S. Navy from the 1920's to the present day. The changes to American concepts of seapower as the United States emerged as a preeminent naval power will be analyzed in depth. |
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History of the United States Army (LW511) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a study of the history of the United States Army from its origins in the Colonial-Revolutionary period to the Present. The course examines the political, cultural, tactical, managerial and philosophical evolution of the modern American Army. |
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History of the Wehrmacht (LW591) |
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American Public University |
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Was it really Hitler''s military? The Wehrmacht was one of the most efficient and well lead militaries in history. By the end of 1941, Germany, a little bigger than half the size of Texas, had conquered lands equivalent to half of the United States. How did the Wehrmacht accomplish such feats? What was the underlining doctrine that gave the Wehrmacht its success? Who was responsible for its organization and conquests? Such questions will be studied throughout this course. |
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History of Transportation (DM560) |
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American Public University |
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This course is designed to provide the graduate student with a study of the major historical events in the transportation industry. Topics include agricultural, industrial, information, interstate, and transtate transportation events and precedents. The course will provide both broad analysis of the industry and specific seminal events in its history. |
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History of U.S. Small Arms Development (DM581) |
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American Public University |
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This course is an overview of federal government roles in developing small arms for the American military. An historic overview of small arms manufacturing and the application of machinery in the production of firearms, the course assesses the U.S. Army Ordnance Department's responsibility to provide the military with small arms systems. Also covered is the future of small arms systems. |
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Holocaust Resistance (PS571) |
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American Public University |
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This course is designed to provide students with a broad concept of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust based on the archival materials and exhibitions of Beit Lohamei HaGetaot (the Ghetto Fighters? Museum, Israel), the Yad-Vashem Holocaust and Heroism Museum in Jerusalem, the United States Holocaust memorial Museum in Washington DC and other online archives and museums; conceptualize the historical phenomenon of resistance in the Holocaust and to discuss the philosophical, theological and educational meaning of this historical phenomenon. |
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Intelligence Operations in the Civil War (CW519) |
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American Public University |
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This course examines the gathering and analysis of military intelligence on both sides during the Civil War. Areas investigated include espionage, Bureau of Military Information, secret services, cavalry forays, covert activities, and secret missions (including the Lincoln assassination plot). Focus of the course will be to compare and contrast the efforts of both the Union and Confederacy to stay ahead in the game of "knowing the enemy." |
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Law and the Holocaust (PS573) |
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American Public University |
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This course examines the Nazi philosophy of law emanating from the racial ideology, and how it was used to pervert Germany's legal system in order to discriminate against, ostracize, dehumanize, and ultimately eliminate, certain classes of people. The course also addresses the role of international law in seeking to rectify the damage by bringing perpetrators to justice, while also constructing a system of international human rights designed to avoid a repetition. |
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Lee and His Lieutenants (CW516) |
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American Public University |
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An in-depth analysis of the leadership of the Army of Northern Virginia, focusing on Robert E. Lee and his key commanders. Historical myths are re-evaluated in light of recent scholarship. |
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Medicine and the Holocaust (PS575) |
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American Public University |
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This course will consider the post World War I conditions, including the German mindset, that became the fertile soil that supported the germination of the greatest genocide the world has ever seen. Were Germans innately anti-Semitic? Were they already a chemical reaction forming ever so slowly into a final solution? And was Hitler simply the catalyst that hastened a process already underway? Or were they a tolerant people who were hypnotized and duped by a singular evil? What conditions developed in the interwar years that seduced health care professionals to abandon the precepts of the Hippocratic Oath and turn instead to the taking, not the preservation, of life? |
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Naval History of World War I (NW548) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a study of the naval history of World War I and examines what happened and why it happened. It will cover the abstract strategies and how different nations applied these to their own circumstances. It will also cover material limitations upon World War I naval warfare and strategy. |
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Perception and the Holocaust (PS572) |
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American Public University |
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The Holocaust is amongst the most singular and unique events not only of the 20th Century, but in the recorded history of the world. At its center is an individual, Hitler, and a group, the Nazis, who have become regarded as the epitome of evil. As such, it has also become one of the most discussed, represented, and mis-represented of events. In this course, we will examine the historiography of the Holocaust, the Nazis, and Hitler, the memoirs and autobiographies of victims, perpetrators, resisters, and bystanders, the portrayals of Hitler, the Nazis, and the Holocaust in popular media and culture, and the phenomenon of Holocaust denial. |
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Reconstruction and Post-Civil War America (CW522) |
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American Public University |
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"Had Lincoln lived to continue his post-Civil War plans for America, Twenty-First Century society might be significantly different. As it happened, however, his untimely assassination left a huge reconstruction vacuum which has never been totally resolved. This course is designed to examine the forces which shaped the history of America during the Reconstruction period." |
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Russian Space History and Programs (SP573) |
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American Public University |
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This course covers Russia?s leading role in space in the 20th and 21st Centuries, to include its space policy, structure, organization, and accomplishments. The future implications of an economically struggling Russia in space are considered. |
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