Cuban Crisis Course
Explore the Cuban Missile Crisis through primary sources, Cold War strategy, and global reactions. Designed for humanities professionals, this course sharpens your analysis, narrative skills, and crisis interpretation for teaching, research, and policy work.

flexible workload of 4 to 360h
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
The Cuban Crisis Course offers a concise, source-driven study of the 1962 confrontation, from Cold War background to resolution and long-term impact. You will work with key primary documents, reconstruct timelines, and assess competing interpretations while learning practical methods for archival research, critical evaluation of evidence, and clear, well-cited argumentation on nuclear strategy and diplomacy.
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Develop skills
- Reconstruct the Cuban Missile Crisis timeline using primary sources with confidence.
- Analyze nuclear strategy concepts like deterrence, MAD, and brinkmanship fast.
- Evaluate Cold War archives for bias, reliability, and corroboration in case studies.
- Explain crisis decision-making in NSC, EXCOMM, and Soviet Politburo settings.
- Apply historiographical and IR theories to craft clear, balanced crisis narratives.
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