In the process of exploring women's roles and contributions, students will gain a perspective on history, sociology, religion, and the arts. This course reviews the history of aviation from the pioneer balloonist to the 1990's, including use of air power in Desert Storm. Progressive developments in aerodynamics, aerospace equipment, the aerospace support structure, and the use of aerospace vehicles are considered. This course is a study of the economic, political, and social forces in Colonial America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The background, causes and results of the American Revolution, the adoption of the Constitution, and founding of republican government are studied.
Emphasis is on the Revolutionary period.
This course examines the major economic, political and social developments in the United States from 1900 to 1945, with emphasis on the 1914 - 1945 period. This is a study of warfare from prehistoric to modern times. The course focuses on how political, social and economic conditions shape the battles and the tools that are used in warfare. In addition, moral and psychological aspects will be considered. The course also focuses on how geography plays an important role in shaping warfare, its causes, and outcomes.