HISTORY 153S
Gateway Seminar: New Directions in Military History
Dannie Brice
Description from DukeHub
This course introduces students to college-level historical inquiry, with a focus on military history. Why and how have people engaged in warfare? How has this changed over time, and how has this impacted race, religion, gender, sexuality, and technology? The specifics of the course -- geography, chronology, etc. -- will vary from year to year, and can be found in the course synopsis. Students will always, though, learn to think critically about armed conflict, and learn to think historically about armed conflict through the use of archives, memoirs, and oral histories.
Skills
- research methodsAI review: "through the use of archives, memoirs, and oral histories"
AI-resilient: 2 of 5
- No: Physical, lab or field work
- No: Live work with people
- Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "justice"
- No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
- Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 18 seats per section
The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works
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