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Introduction to the U.S. Army (MH392) |
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American Public University |
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This course is an introduction to the primary land component organization of the United States military. It covers the purpose, missions, and contemporary issues of the Army in a way that the military or non-military student may understand this organization's role in society. |
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Introduction to the U.S. Coast Guard (MH395) |
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American Public University |
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This course is an introduction to the U.S. Coast Guard. It covers the purpose, missions, and contemporary issues of the Coast Guard in a way that the student may understand this organization's role in society. |
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Introduction to the U.S. Navy (MH393) |
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American Public University |
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This course is an introduction to the sea service component of the United States military. It covers the purpose, missions, and contemporary issues of the Navy in a way that the military or non-military student may understand this organization's role in society. |
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Introduction to Wargaming (MH405) |
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American Public University |
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This is a course in the application and methodology of games as applied to warfare throughout history. The concept of ancient games will be covered as well as board games in relation to the Napoleonic period through the Civil War to the current battlefield and its relationship to computer simulations. Attention will be given to the evolution of wargames into the modern computer assisted exercise (CAX). |
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Law and the Holocaust (SS471) |
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American Public University |
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This course examines how the Nazis used the institution of law to promote and protect their racial ideology and subvert Germany's legal system. The role of international law is investigated to determine if it truly provides a means to bring perpetrators to justice as well as constructing a system to avoid repetition of such injustice. |
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Low Intensity Conflict (MH402) |
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American Public University |
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This course will introduce the student to the major components of low-intensity conflict, including insurgency, counter-insurgency, terrorism, and psychological warfare. The term "low-intensity conflict" has a controversial political history; there is neither a rigorous definition nor a consensus on the exact boundaries. For the purpose of this course, "low-intensity conflict" (LIC) covers any warfare short of the actual confrontation between the armed forces of two states. It thus includes hostile action between states short of war, including psychological operations and cyberwarfare, as well as military operations involving non-state actors, such as popular insurgencies, terrorist groups, and even criminal organizations (such as drug cartels) whose activities have political consequences. LIC thus refers to a range of activities, not to a particular forces, doctrines, or forms of organization. Although the Department of Defense organization associates LIC with special operations forces, there is no conceptual connection. Originally, the concept of LIC fitted into a larger framework, with medium intensity conflict referring to conventional warfare and high intensity conflict to the use of weapons of mass destruction. The use of chemical weapons by the Japanese terrorist group Aum Shin Rikiyo in 1995, however, showed that framework falls short of reality. (IMPORTANT NOTICE: MH402 (Section Z) is available as an internship course ONLY to students currently serving in a Special Operations and/or Low Intensity Conflict assignment or position. |
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Maritime Leadership (MH130) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a study of leadership at sea during times of stress, conflict, and all-out war. It is designed specifically for the intellectual advancement of military enlisted students who are in or seek positions of leadership. Course topics include the study of maritime leadership in various forms of conflict and confrontation, concepts of leadership as described from leading maritime theorists and leaders, and the unique aspects of leadership as it is defined within the confines of limited space afloat. The course?s content is drawn from leading texts on the official Commandant of the Coast Guard and Chief Petty Officer of the Navy?s Reading Lists. Course texts include: Abrashoff, It's Your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy; Phillips, The Founding Fathers on Leadership: Classic Teamwork in Changing Times; Taylor, Military Leadership: In Pursuit of Excellence; and Montor, Naval Leadership: Voices of Experience. The course is open to any interested student. |
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Maritime Operations (MH160) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a study of maritime operations, to include historical, principle, and conceptual approaches to the subject. It is designed specifically for the intellectual advancement of military enlisted students who are in or seek positions of leadership. Course topics include a variety of maritime operations, such as drug interdiction, warfighting in ?brown waters,? and operational decision making from a tactical and operational perspective. The course?s content is drawn from leading military ethics texts on the official military service reading list published by the Commandant of the Coast Guard. Course texts include: Fuss, Sea of Grass: The Maritime Drug War: 1970 ? 1990; Corbett, Some Principles of Maritime Strategy; and Smith, Taking Charge: Making the Right Choices. This course is open to any interested student. |
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Medicine and the Holocaust (HS372) |
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American Public University |
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This course on Medicine and the Holocaust will first examine the Nazis? euthanasia program, as a backdrop to the later genocide. How did physicians react to the termination of life considered inferior by Hitler?s standards? Were they reluctant to abandon the Hippocratic oath?s admonition to first do no harm? Or did they willingly take up the needle to terminate life that was flawed? Once involved with this limited destruction of life, was it a giant leap to the genocidal slaughter of Jews, Gypsies, and Slavs? Or a natural slide down the slippery slope of human destruction? Both the German medical establishment as a whole, and individual physicians specifically, such as the infamous Josef Mengele, will be examined for clues as to how enlightened professionals could degenerate into torturers and killers. The medical atrocities inflicted on helpless victims in the name of science and supported by major pharmaceutical firms will be considered in detail. A careful look at Auschwitz and other death camps will be undertaken. By course end, the student will have a thorough knowledge of this most heinous aspect of the greatest slaughter of human life the world has ever seen. |
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Modern Africa (HS341) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a study of modern African history and contemporary affairs in the 20th and 21st Centuries. |
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Naval Biography (MH230) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a study of great naval lives and careers from different ranks, times, and specific duties. It is designed specifically for the intellectual advancement of military enlisted students who are in or seek positions of leadership. Course topics include the enduring lessons and principles learned through the study of specific naval personnel. The course?s content is drawn from leading naval biographies on the official Chief Petty Officer of the Navy?s Reading List. Course texts include: Stockdale, In Love and War: The Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years; Harlan, All at Sea: Coming of Age in World War II; Ballendorf, Pete Ellis: An Amphibious Warfare Prophet, 1880-1923; and Leech, A Voice from the Main Deck: Being a Record of the Thirty Years' Adventures of Samuel Leech. The course is open to any interested student. |
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North American Prehistory (HS385) |
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American Public University |
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A study of what is modern day Canada, United States, Latin and South America from the earliest settlements through the beginning European colonization. |
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Operational Art (MH323) |
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American Public University |
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A study of the three levels of thinking associated with the art of war with emphasis on the historical development and use of each by the world's great commanders and their armies. |
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Operational Art and the German Tradition (MH360) |
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American Public University |
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A survey of the origins, contexts, and evolution of the German tradition of operational art based on battle studies from Jena-Auerstadt (1806) to the Battle of France (1940). |
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Perception and the Holocaust (SS470) |
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American Public University |
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The course focuses on the perceptions and misperceptions of the Holocaust as they have been manifested during that period, afterwards, and to the current day. It includes the study of hate, denial, myths, lies, and distortions created around the Holocaust, its survivors, and its other aspects. |
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Polish and Jewish Holocaust Perspectives (HS471) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a study of Polish and Jewish perspectives of the Holocaust. |
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Reconstruction (HS410) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a detailed study of the post-Civil War period. Its topics include both southern and northern aspects of Reconstruction. |
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Small Unit Leadership (MH120) |
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American Public University |
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This course is a study of small unit military leadership traits, principles, and cases. It is designed specifically for the intellectual advancement of military enlisted students who are in or seek positions of leadership. Course topics include effective small unit leaders and leadership characteristics; squad, platoon, team, and other small unit organizations of the U.S. military, and the critical roles of morale, courage, and teamwork play at the small unit level. The course?s content is drawn from leading military leadership texts on the official Sergeant Major of the Army Reading List. Course texts for this course include: McDonough, Platoon Leader; Malone, Small Unit Leadership; Nye, The Challenge of Command: Reading for Military Excellence; and Baynes, Morale: A Study of Men and Courage. The course is open to any interested student. |
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Society Technology And Environment (HSS 202) |
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New Jersey Institute of Technology |
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Prerequisite: HSS 101. Uses case studies to examine the relationships between the creation and use of technologies, the human and natural environment, and the development of social and cultural institutions. Its central theme is the manner in which human society structures the environment in which it lives: nature and culture, city and country, civilization and development. This course satisfies 3 credits of the Basic Social Sciences GUR. |
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South American Prehistory (SS381) |
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American Public University |
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This course studies the cultural development of the first inhabitants of South America from the initial occupation to the European conquest. Attention is devoted to the rise of complex civilizations in the central Andes and adjacent Pacific coast and the culmination of the Inca empire. |
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