How did the United States become the most powerful nation on earth? Popular narratives often stress the exceptionalism of the United States: an apostle of...

Superpower: A Global History of the United States, 1898-1989 (HIST0079)

How did the United States become the most powerful nation on earth? Popular narratives often stress the exceptionalism of the United States: an apostle of universal democratic liberty, brought out of its nineteenth-century isolation because of its unique commitment to democratic liberty. More critical narratives, by contrast, have argued that there was an elite project to turn the United States into a new kind of global empire, one which was profoundly contradictory to the true nature of American democracy.

This module will seek to test these conflicting interpretations by exploring the development of US power in the twentieth century, but also to transcend them by showing how the history of US foreign policy can be situated within transnational and global processes. We will examine US diplomacy, international relations, and economic and military interventions overseas. However, we will also explore other kinds of global connections, such as the often outsized role played by specific subgroups within American society whose gendered, racial, class-based and religious concerns transcended national borders. We will look at the development of supranational institutions and ideas. And we will explore the way in which the United States’ increasingly intense engagement with the rest of the world changed the nation at home, whether in terms of the strengthening of the federal state, the transformation of politics and society, or even the reconstruction of the landscape of America itself.

VOICE PATHOLOGY|VOICE ASSESSMENT|VOICE NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS|MUSCLE TENSION DYSPHONIA|VOICE CA

This module aims to provide an overview of the anatomy and physiology of voice, respiration, neurology and muscular contribution to voice as well as vocal...

Clinical Management of the Professional Voice User (SURG0148)