Module Identifier | IP31920 | ||
Module Title | THE VIETNAM WAR | ||
Academic Year | 2002/2003 | ||
Co-ordinator | Professor Martin S Alexander | ||
Semester | Intended for use in future years | ||
Next year offered | N/A | ||
Next semester offered | N/A | ||
Course delivery | Lecture | 11 Hours (11 x 1 hour) | |
Seminars / Tutorials | 10 Hours (5 x 2 hours) | ||
Assessment | Semester Exam | 2 Hours | 60% |
Semester Assessment | Essay: 1 x 2,500 words | 40% | |
Supplementary Exam | Students may, subject to Faculty approval, have the opportunity to resit this module, normally during the supplementary examination period. For further clarification please contact the Teaching Programme Administrator in the Department of International Politics. |
- Discuss the origins of US intervention in Vietnam
- Describe the multifaceted and multi-national dimensions of the Vietnam War
- Identify military and pacification strategies of the USA/South Vietnam on one side, and North Vietnam/the Viet Cong on the other
- Discuss critically the Vietnam War's main military operations and tactics
- Analyse the nature of US anti-war protest and assess its impact on US conduct of the war
- Evaluate critically the legacies of defeat in Vietnam for post-1975 US foreign and military policy
10 ECTS credits
- ability to marshall arguments, supported by historical evidence, orally and on paper in both succinct summary format (single-page bullet-point presentations) and in extended form (an essay)
- IT capacity required to word-process, and disseminate as e-mail attachments, bullet-point presentation summaries
- practice of skills at answering questions deploying evidence in support of argument under strict time pressure (in the examination)