Still thinking of teaching a seminar on WWII for some incoming freshman in the spring. After a little thought, I narrowed it down to the Pacific Theatre, using the following events as a tentative outline:

Events precipitating Pearl,
Pearl Harbor,
Wake Island,
Midway,
Tulagi and Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands,
Philippines,
Iwo Jima,
Okinawa,
Proposed Japanese Invasion / the bomb,
Various Japanese Wartime Atrocities,
Compare & Contrast Japanese Terror vs. Fundamental Islamic Terror,
Compare & Contrast America's fight against Japanese Terror vs. FIT

This course would be an overload, and it may very well suck a ton of my time. Although it would be a refreshing change of pace. Any thoughts or comments?