This summer WAGE Senior Fellow and UW History Professor Jeremi Suri will teach an online course on the History of U.S. Grand Strategy.  This pilot, graduate-level course explores how grand strategy shaped U.S. interactions with states, peoples and cultures during the 20th century, offering a fresh perspective on America’s foreign policy successes and failures.

The course will run for eight weeks, from June 15 to August 7, 2009.  Each week, new lectures and downloadable reading assignments will be posted to the course website.  The online format allows you to view materials at your convenience, post comments and questions on a class message board, and engage in online discussion with the instructor and fellow classmates.

To learn more or to pre-register, contact Scott Mobley, course coordinator and military liaison, at mobley@wisc.edu or (608) 265-0484, or visit http://iss.jasons.wisc.edu.

This online course is sponsored by the UW-Madison College of Letters and Science with additional support from the Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE), Division of Continuing Studies, Department of History, Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), Learning Support Services, UW JASONS, Wisconsin Alumni Association, and WARF –Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.

CAMPUS NEWS STORY: "New history course on U.S. ‘grand strategy’ reaches out to modern military leaders" by Brian Mattmiller, 24 February 2009