University of Calgary : Strategic Studies STST

Strategic Studies STST

STST 600 611 651 653 655 657 659 661 751 753

Instruction offered by members of the Faculty of Arts.

Graduate Coordinator – P. Brennan

Graduate Courses

Only where appropriate to a student's program may graduate credit be received for courses numbered 500-599.

Strategic Studies 600

MSS Co-operative Education

Strategic Studies Co-operative Education Work Placement
Course Hours: M(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the co-operative education option of the MSS program.

Strategic Studies 611

Canadian Military Studies

Canadian military studies, excepting the two world wars. Topics will include the evolution of Canadian defence policy, past or present, the development and evolution of the Canadian Forces or any of its main elements (army, navy or air force), Canadian military operability with the military forces of Allied nations, and the relationship between Canadian foreign policy and the use of the Canadian military.
Course Hours: H(3-0)

Strategic Studies 651

Reading Seminar

Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Graduate Co-ordinator.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT

Strategic Studies 653

Research Seminar

Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Graduate Co-ordinator.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT

Strategic Studies 655

Classics of Strategy

Strategic thought from Sun Tzu to Clausewitz, Mahan to Corbett. Analyzes the writings of classic strategic thinkers and then, by way of case studies, examines their theories as they pertain to military and political planners from the Peloponnesian War to the present.
Course Hours: H(3-0)
Also known as: (formerly History 655)

Strategic Studies 657

Intelligence; Information Operations; and "Command, Control, Communications and Computers"

An assessment of the history of intelligence, information operations, and command systems for military and diplomatic institutions as well as contemporary theory and practice related to these issues.
Course Hours: H(3-0)

Strategic Studies 659

Sea Power

The meaning of sea power and an assessment of how modern states use it. An analysis of the writings of major naval strategic thinkers and case-study examination of the application of those theories from Nelson to the present.
Course Hours: H(3-0)

Strategic Studies 661

Circumpolar Security

Assessment of the security environment of the Arctic region. This seminar will assess both the differing theoretical conceptualizations of security in the Arctic and the policies of the circumpolar states as they pursue Arctic security.
Course Hours: H(3S-0)

Strategic Studies 751

Reading Seminar

Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Graduate Co-ordinator.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT

Strategic Studies 753

Research Seminar

Course Hours: H(3-0)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Graduate Co-ordinator.
MAY BE REPEATED FOR CREDIT

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