CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Expanded Syallbi & Assignments Initiative

The SHAFR Teaching Committee is updating and expanding its online collection of syllabi to include assignments. At present, there are nearly 50 syllabi in the collection. With the addition of assignments, and the updating of some syllabi, the collection will be an even stronger resource for faculty, providing a place to share the intellectual structure of our courses and our reading lists, plus ideas for skills instruction and classroom management techniques.

All contributions are welcome, from instructions for brief in-class exercises to major research projects. We are also continuing to accept syllabi for the collection, though you can submit an assignment without sending your whole syllabus. Please include information that will help readers understand the institutional context of the course and/or the assignment, including the number of students enrolled, the level (intermediate undergraduate, graduate, etc.), and the frequency and duration of class meetings.

Please send submissions as .docx, .doc, or .pdf, to Nicole Phelps at [email protected].

The updated Syllabi & Assignments Initiative will be online soon. SHAFR’s original collection of syllabi are posted below.

Syllabi updated 20 March 2013

Undergraduate Courses

Colonial Period to the Present

• Berry University, “History of American Diplomacy” (Christy Snider)
• University of Vermont, “Foundations of US Foreign Policy” (Nicole Phelps)
• Henry Ford Community College, ” America in the World: American Foreign Relations since 1607″ (Hal Friedman)
• Henry Ford Community College, “America and the World: A History of U.S. International Relations since 1776″ (Hal Friedman)
• Henry Ford Community College, “America in the Modern World: A History of U.S. International Relations, 1776-1997″ (Hal Friedman)
• Eastern Michigan University, “Foreign Relations of the United States” (Hal Friedman)
• Michigan State University, “Writing: The Evolution of American Thought” (Hal Friedman)
• Florida International University, “International Relations of the United States” (Thomas Breslin)
• 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)
• West Chester University “Diplomatic History of the United States (Robert J. Kodosky)

Independence and 19th Century

• Michigan State University, “US Foreign Relations to 1914″ (Hal Friedman)
• Central Michigan University – Metro Detroit, “American Diplomatic History, 1775-1898″ (Hal Friedman)
• 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)
• Towson University, “U.S. Foreign Policy until 1900″ (Elizabeth Gray)

20th Century

• Ashland University, “American Foreign Policy (since 1895)” (John Moser)
• Brock University, “U.S. Foreign Policy since 1945″ (Tami J. Friedman)
• Central Michigan University – Metro Detroit, “American Diplomatic History, 1898-Present” (Hal Friedman)
• 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)
• College of William and Mary, “U.S.-Foreign Relations, 1900-present” (Hiroshi Kitamura)
• Towson University, “20th-Century U.S. Foreign Policy” (Elizabeth Gray)

Cold War

• Henry Ford Community College, “The United States and the Cold War, 1917-1991″ (Hal Friedman)
• Columbia University, “Performing the Cold War: How the United States Sold Itself Abroad (Full Semester)” (Victoria Phillips Geduld)
• Columbia University, “Performing the Cold War: How the United States Sold Itself Abroad (Summer Session)” (Victoria Phillips Geduld)
• Henry Ford Community College, “Capitalism, Communism, and the Contest for Global Domination: An International History of the Cold War, 1917-1991″ (Hal Friedman)
• 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)
• University of Texas at Dallas, “HIST 3370. The American Experience in Vietnam” (Stephen Rabe)
• Wittenberg University, “Topics in Diplomacy: The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan” (Molly Wood)
• West Chester University, “The Vietnam Wars” (Robert J. Kodosky)
• Reed College, “The Vietnam War” (Edward Segel)
• Towson University, “U.S. and Vietnam” (Elizabeth Gray)

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

• Cornell University, “Causes and Consequences of US Foreign Policy” (Elizabeth Sanders)
• University of West Chester, “Diplomatic History of the United States” (Robert J. Kodosky)
• University of West Chester, “America Goes to War!” (Robert J. Kodosky)
• University at Albany, “The Diplomacy of the Nuclear Age” (H. Peter Krosby)
• College of William and Mary, “Studies in History of Diplomacy” (Michael A. Butler)
• Augusta State University, “National Security and Foreign Policy, 1898-Present” (H. van Tuyll)
• University of Vermont, “Gender and US Foreign Relations” (Nicole Phelps)
• University of Vermont, “The 1890s: Globalizing America” (Nicole Phelps)
• University of Toronto, “Gender and International Relations” (Carol Chin)
• College of William and Mary, “The Nuclear World” (Hiroshi Kitamura)

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)
• University of Texas at Dallas, “HUHI 6320: The American Experience in Vietnam” (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)