HISTORY PRACTICUM: EMERGING GLOBAL CHALLENGESHISTORYWhat are the issues and dilemmas that we will be tasked with in the immediate future?How should we strategically move forward in our contemporary world with the knowledgewe have of the past? The goal of this course is to provide students with a 昀椀rmerfoundation for understanding diverse challenges, identifying their common roots,and outlining policy responses that are relevant and strategic. Achieving this goalrequires a mix of history, theory, and policy analysis and also calls for broad readingand intensive discussion. The 昀椀rst unit of the course focuses on the central textThe Power of the Past: History and Statecraft by Hal Brands and Jeremi Suri whichprovides the basis for how historians and policy makers balance their knowledgeof the past with their current context when responding to modern dilemmas. Forthe remainder of the course students engage with case studies of intersectingdomestic and international challenges such as responding to a global pandemic,the emergence of arti昀椀cial intelligence, and democracy and nation-building. Thiscourse pushes students to synthesize the analytical skills built over their Field historyexperience, broaden their contemporary issue expertise, and develop a coherentindividual worldview that offers useful prescriptions for future policy. The coursewill not encourage agreement among students, but it will demand a considerationof multiple points of view before students settle on their own original explanatoryframeworks for contemporary global challenges through a 昀椀nal national securitypaper on the issue of their choice.
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