MLS320 : Advanced Studies in American Military History

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. The course will emphasize basic research skills. Understanding historiographical debates within a military framework, developing effective note-taking and 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 assignments.