Syllabus Initiative

This site is designed as a teaching resource for SHAFR's membership and friends. It contains a respository of syllabi submitted by SHAFR members from their own courses which may be used as a reference by those preparing to teach foreign relations history. The syllabi below are organized by graduate and undergraduate courses, and then subdivided by the type of course (e.g. chronological, thematic).

Please consider contributing your syllabi to add to those listed below. This project will provide a useful resource only if members of SHAFR are willing to share their syllabi with the broader community. To submit a syllabus, email it as an attachment to webmaster@shafr.org, or mail a paper copy to the SHAFR Business Office, 106 Dulles Hall, 230 W. 17th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210.

Undergraduate Courses:

Colonial Period to the Present:

University of Texas at Dallas, "HST 2301" (Stephen Rabe)

Shippensburg University, "American Diplomatic History" (Robert Shaffer)

Chapman University, "American Diplomatic History and Foreign Policy" (Leo Lovelace)

United States Naval Academy, "America in World Affairs" (Richard H. Werking)

University of Colorado at Boulder, "U.S. Diplomatic History to 1941" (Thomas Zeiler)

Weber State University "American Diplomatic History" (William Thomas Allison)

University of Cincinnati, "U.S. in the World I" (John McNay)

United States Air Force Academy "The History of U.S. Foreign Policy" (Grant T. Weller)

Independence and 19th Century:

Ohio State University, "United States Diplomacy from Independence to 1920" (Peter Hahn)

University of Vermont, "History of U.S. Foreign Relations to 1914" (Mark Stoler)

University of Minnesota, "Americans and International Affairs to 1917" (Nicole Phelps)

University of Cincinnati, "U.S. in the World II" (John McNay)

Wright State University, "United States Foreign Relations to 1914" (Jonathan Reed Winkler)

 

20th Century:

Ohio State University, "United States Diplomacy since 1920" (Peter Hahn)

University of Texas at Dallas, "HST 3369" (Stephen Rabe)

University of Texas at Dallas, "HST 3379" (Stephen Rabe)

University of Vermont, "History of U.S. Foreign Relations since 1914" (Mark Stoler)

University of Florida, "History of American Foreign Relations, since 1914" (Robert McMahon)

University of Maryland, Baltimore County, "The U.S. and the World since 1900" (Brad Simpson)

Ohio State University, Newark, "American Diplomatic History since 1920" (Mitch Lerner)

University of Minnesota, "American Foreign Relations since 1914" (Nicole Phelps)

Trinity University, "U.S. Diplomatic History" (Donald N. Clark)

University of Cincinnati, "U.S. in the World III" (John McNay)

Brock University, "U.S. Foreign Policy since 1945" (Tami Friedman)

Cold War:

United States Naval Academy, "The Early Cold War: The Truman Administration, 1945-1953" (R.H. Werking)

University of Vermont, "Seminar: U.S.-British-Soviet Relations from World War II to Cold War, 1940-1950" (Mark Stoler)

University of Florida, "The Cold War" (Robert McMahon)

U.S. Coast Guard Academy, "America in the Nuclear Age" (Gary Donato)

Brock University, "The Cold War" (Tami Friedman)

Vietnam:

University of Florida, "America in Vietnam" (Robert McMahon)

West Chester University, "The Vietnam Wars" (Robert J. Kodosky)

Third World:

University of Georgia, "Problems in American Foreign Policy: The Third World" (Larry Grubbs)

Texas A&M University, "Inter-American Relations" (Andy Kirkendall)

University of Evansville, "The United States and the Middle East" (Daniel Byrne)

University of Notre Dame, "Decolonization and the United States" (Daniel Byrne)

Other Thematic Courses

University of Toronto, "Gender and International Relations" (Carol Chin)

 

Graduate Courses:

Reading Seminars:

20th Century:

Ohio State University, "Studies in U.S. Diplomatic History, 1914 to the Present" (Peter Hahn)

University of Texas at Dallas, "HST 6325" (Stephen Rabe)

Ohio State University, Newark, "The Cold War" (Mitch Lerner)

Vietnam:

University of Texas at Dallas, "HST 7355" (Stephen Rabe)

Research Seminars:

Ohio State University, "Seminar in U.S. Diplomatic History" (Peter Hahn)

University of Colorado, "American Empire" (Thomas Zeiler)

2008 SHAFR Summer Institute at Ohio State University. (Note: The following three syllabi were prepared by participants of the 2008 SHAFR Summer Institute at Ohio State University. By design, they are concise outlines of content and readings only and they are intended to provide basic frameworks for adoption at colleges and universities.)

"U.S.-Iraq" (Jeffry Engel, Qiang Zhai, Thomas Zoumaras, Matt Jacobs)

"U.S.-Iraq" (Tom Gaskin, Fabian Hilfrich, Michaela Hoenicke Moore, Sandra Scanlon)

"U.S.-Iraq" (Sayuri Shimizu, Molly Wood, Chris Jespersen, Andrew Johns)