HIST 479 - World War II: Global Warfront, Local Homefront

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4
Historical examination of the World War II era, from the Great De-pression to 1950. Analysis of military and ideological conflicts, with special focus on the Pacific War and California. Legacies for under-standing human rights, democracy, and international alliances.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE-2 with grade C- (CR) or better (GE Areas A1, A2, A3 and B4 for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division GE Area 4 requirements (Area D1-2 requirements for students on the 2024-25 or earlier catalogs).
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous, or Online-Synchronous.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Course Typically Offered: Variable Intermittently

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Describe the root causes of World War II, including origins in the Great Depression and the rise of totalitarian governments;
Analyze the United States’ declaration of war and wartime mobilization in the context of events at Pearl Harbor;
Investigate the miliary, ideological, and racial conditions of the Pacific War;
Describe the war-front experiences of diverse members of the military services;
Analyze the home-front experiences of diverse communities in the United States, with particular attention to the Bay Area and California;
Consider examples of mass violence, warfare, and internment, in light of human rights and ethical conventions for military conflict;
Describe the international alliances forged during World War II, and their enduring global significance today;
Reflect on the legacies World War II for understandings of democratic forms of government.

GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Learning Outcomes

analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods;
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences; and
demonstrate an understanding of and ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.