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Liberal Study
Upper Level
Credits: 4
Meets General Education Requirement In: Other World Civilizations-Full
Term(s) Offered (Subject to Change) :
Pursue an interdisciplinary approach to understanding Vietnamese history, with special emphasis on America's complex wartime involvement. Explore a wide variety of points of view on the major issues and controversies surrounding the U.S.-Vietnam War and its aftermath. Examine Vietnamese nation building, French colonization, the contradictory and unclear objectives of the United States, the post-World War II foreign policy that led the United States into Vietnam, the importance of cross-cultural differences in the study of Vietnamese-American relations, the domestic conflict in the United States versus the military battles in Vietnam, and the reasons for the outcome, with lessons and legacies of war.
Recommended: previous courses in American history, world history or the social sciences.
This course fully meets the General Education requirement in Other World Civilizations.
