AMS 320 - ADVANCED STUDIES IN AMERICAN MILITARY HISTORY

College of Arts and Sciences

Credit(s): 3

This course will furnish University of Kentucky Students 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. AMS/HIS 320 will emphasize basic research skills: understanding historiographical debates within a military framework, developing effective note taking, 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 research assignments.

Prereq: Consent of instructor
Meets UK Core: Community, Culture and Citizenship in the USA.
Crosslisted with: HIS 320