MADISON — The Friends of the Madison Public Library are again offering minicourses for the fall semester, giving residents the chance to take five-week, in-person classes taught by area college faculty.
The courses will be held in the Chase Room of the library, 39 Keep Street, and are open to the public.
The first course, “Dawn of a World Power: The U.S. from the Spanish-American War to the Interwar Crisis,” will be taught by Gary Darden, associate professor of history at Fairleigh Dickinson University. The course examines U.S. global expansion through military intervention and economic activity in the years between the Spanish-American War and the end of World War I, along with the resurgence of isolationism in the 1930s.
Classes will be held Thursday afternoons from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. on September 10, 17 and 24 (there will be no class October 1), and October 8 and 15.
The second course, “U.S. Foreign Policy,” will be taught by Phil Mundo, professor emeritus in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Drew University. The course will review U.S. foreign policy from the nation’s founding to the present, focusing on key events and turning points and examining competing explanations of U.S. actions.
