History 450 - JYW Seminar in History

This seminar trains students in historical research techniques and the writing of history, and fulfills the University's Junior Writing requirement. See the History Department course description guide for various sectional sub-titles and descriptions.

Open to Seniors and Juniors in History, Middle East and Judaic majors only. Nuclear Politics from WWII to Present : Through common readings, films, and a major individual research project, this Junior Writing Seminar explores U.S. nuclear history from the atomic bombing of Japan in 1945 to the Iran Nuclear Deal of 2015. Key topics include the nuclear arms race, the Cuban Missile Crisis, popular culture stories and movies about nuclear holocaust and its aftermath, and anti-nuclear activism from the world government movement of the 1940s to the nuclear abolition movement of recent decades.