Strategy and Statecraft (STR)
STR 301 Perennial Challenges in Strategy and Statecraft 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine diplomatic, military, and intelligence related responsibilities and challenges inherent in strategy and state leadership. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
STR 302 Foundations of American Strategy and Statecraft 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore the history of diplomacy and war in the American regime. Examine the practice of American statecraft in relation to foreign affairs and the permanent principles of grand strategy. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
STR 303 Classic Texts of Strategy and Statecraft I 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the texts and ideas that shape foreign affairs and war in the preclassical era and antiquity through the European Renaissance. Explore issues such as the justice of war and peace, the relationship between the regime and strategic imperatives, the philosophic arguments for just war, and the ontological nature of conflict. Study sources such as Herodotus, Sun Tzu, Augustine, and Machiavelli. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
STR 312 Topics in Strategy and Statecraft 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine one or more topics in foreign affairs, diplomacy, intelligence, and war. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Lower Division
STR 314C American Military and Diplomatic History I 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
STR 314D European Military and Diplomatic History I 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Lower Division
STR 119S, 219S, 319S, 419S, 519S, 619S, 719S, 819S, 919S Topics in Strategy and Statecraft 1-9 Hours
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad advisor in the School of Civic Leadership. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Lower Division
STR 323 Classic Texts of Strategy and Statecraft II 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine the texts and ideas that shape foreign affairs and war from the Reformation through the present. Explore questions such as the nature of victory, the relationship between politics, technology, and war in the modern state, the possibility of order during conflict, and the psychology of conflict. Study works such as Clausewitz, Tolstoy, Alfred Mahan, Reinhold Niebuhr, and contemporary reflections on grand strategy and war.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 324 Strategy, Statecraft, and Justice 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine problems of justice in the context of war, defense, and diplomacy. Explore the relationship between a society's moral foundations and foreign policy, questions of ethical conduct and warfare, and the challenges of citizenship with respect to foreign policy decisions. Discuss readings that may include Reinhold Niebuhr, Hans Morgenthau, Henry Kissinger, as well as memoirs and contemporary scholarship. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 325C American Military and Diplomatic History II 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 325D European Military and Diplomatic History II 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 129S, 229S, 329S, 429S, 529S, 629S, 729S, 829S, 929S Topics in Strategy and Statecraft 1-9 Hours
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
This course is used to record credit the student earns while enrolled at another institution in a program administered by the University's Study Abroad Office. Credit is recorded as assigned by the study abroad advisor in the School of Civic Leadership. University credit is awarded for work in an exchange program; it may be counted as coursework taken in residence. Transfer credit is awarded for work in an affiliated studies program.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 331 Topics in Classic Texts of Strategy and Statecraft 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 331C Statecraft and War in Literature 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Discuss the challenges of strategy, statecraft, and war through literature. Explore issues such as the individual and society, narrative voice, historical memory, technology, and ethics. Discuss readings that may include works such as the Hebrew Bible, Homer, Shakespeare, Hugo, or Heinlein. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 331D Grand Strategy in Theory and Practice 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Explore great power competitions of both the past and the present and the ways states seek to achieve their goals in the international system today. Evaluate how political regimes shape military and diplomatic policy. Analyze the role of economic power in the global system. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 332 Topics in Military and Diplomatic History 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 336 Topics in Practice of Statecraft 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine themes and case studies in war, defense, diplomacy, intelligence, or law. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Varies with the topic.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Upper Division
Topic 1: Practice of Statecraft. Examine themes and case studies in war, defense, diplomacy, intelligence, or law.
STR 336.1 Practice of Statecraft 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine themes and case studies in war, defense, diplomacy, intelligence, or law.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 341 Advanced Topics in Military and Diplomatic History 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Analyze one or more eras in diplomatic and military history. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Varies with the topic.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Upper Division
Topic 1: Advanced Military and Diplomatic History. Examine one or more eras in military and diplomatic history.
STR 341.1 Advanced Military and Diplomatic History 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Examine one or more eras in military and diplomatic history.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 343 Advanced Topics in Classic Texts in Strategy and Statecraft 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Varies with the topic.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Upper Division
Topic 1: Advanced Classic Texts in Strategy and Statecraft. Discuss classic texts in war and foreign affairs at an advanced level.
STR 343.1 Advanced Classic Texts in Strategy and Statecraft 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Discuss classic texts in war and foreign affairs at an advanced level.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 347 Advanced Topics in Practice of Statecraft 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Discuss themes and case studies related to war, defense, diplomacy, intelligence, and law at an advanced level. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Varies with the topic.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Upper Division
Topic 1: Advanced Practice of Statecraft.
STR 347.1 Advanced Practice of Statecraft 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 362 Strategic Analysis 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 363 Capstone in Strategic Analysis 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Strategy and Statecraft 362 or 364H.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 364H Honors Strategic Analysis 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and consent of dean.
Restrictions: Restricted to students in the Strategy and Statecraft Honors program.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 365H Honors Capstone in Strategic Analysis 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Strategy and Statecraft 364H and consent of dean.
Restrictions: Restricted to students in the Strategy and Statecraft Honors Program.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 366 Advanced Topics in Strategic Analysis 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing; additional prerequisites vary with the topic.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: May be repeated for credit when the topics vary.
Academic Level: Upper Division
Topic 1: Advanced Strategic Analysis.
STR 366.1 Advanced Strategic Analysis 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 177I Internship in Strategy and Statecraft 1 Hour
1 Lecture Hours 4 Lab Hours
Participate in a professional internship. Reflect on internship to improve ability to both articulate preferences and skills, and to match them with appropriate career-related choices. May be taken three times for credit. One lecture hour and four laboratory hours a week for one semester
Pre/Corequisites: Consent of advisor.
Restrictions: Restricted to Strategy and Statecraft majors in the School of Civic Leadership.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: Yes (03 times)
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 378H Honors Thesis I in Strategy and Statecraft 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Upper-division standing and consent of instructor and dean.
Restrictions: Restricted to students in the Strategy and Statecraft honors program.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 278I, 378I Internship in Strategy and Statecraft 2-3 Hours
2,3 Lecture Hours 8,12 Lab Hours
Participate in a professional internship. Reflect on internship to improve ability to both articulate preferences and skills, and to match them with appropriate career-related choices. For 278I, the equivalent of two lecture hours and eight laboratory hours a week for one semester; for 378I, the equivalent of three lecture hours and twelve laboratory hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Consent of advisor.
Restrictions: Restricted to Strategy and Statecraft majors in the School of Civic Leadership.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division
STR 379H Honors Thesis II in Strategy and Statecraft 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Strategy and Statecraft 378H and consent of instructor and dean.
Restrictions: Restricted to students in the Strategy and Statecraft honors program.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division