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CIBER is excited to announce an innovative online course designed for business professionals, educators, and military personnel around the world who can benefit from a better understanding of cultural, historical and geographical relations between the United States and other countries.
This summer, WAGE Senior Fellow and UW History Professor Jeremi Suri will teach “American Foreign Policy: A History of U.S. Grand Strategy,” the first online course in a planned Capstone Certificate in International Affairs (IAC). CIBER funding supported the development of this pilot, graduate-level course that 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. An understanding of such interactions and an appreciation of their consequences can help international business professionals build better relationships with their global contacts now and in the future.
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 Web site. The online format allows students to view materials at their convenience, post comments and questions on a class message board, and engage in online discussion with the instructor and fellow classmates.
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.
Registration/Contact Information 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.
CAMPUS NEWS STORY: “New history course on U.S. ‘grand strategy’ reaches out to modern military leaders” by Brian Mattmiller, 24 February 2009.