SUNY College at Brockport Undergraduate Catalog

Modern War and Society
Interdisciplinary Minor

Modern War and Society, an interdisciplinary minor that requires 18 credits, provides a broad gauged perspective on a vital contemporary issue. The nature of human conflict, international power relations, the battlefield in various contexts, the literature of war, and myriad sub-topics make up the substance of the program. The Departments of English, History and Political Science offer an array of seventeen mostly upper-level courses. Students must meet the following requirements:

HST 355 Modern War, 1740-1939
Five electives which must include courses from at least two departments and at least one 400-level offering from the following:
- ENL 495 Literature of the Holocaust
- HST 327 American Military Experience
- HST 351 Nazi Germany
- HST 356 War Since 1945
- HST 362 World War II
- HST 417 The American Revolution
- HST 419 The Civil War Era, 1848-1877
- HST 441 World War I
- HST 459 Modern Germany
- HST 463 Revolution and Communism in China
- HST 465 Vietnam: Race and Film
- PLS 111 World Politics
- PLS 333 American Foreign Policy
- PLS 448 Leadership