Course Description
A multidisciplinary, comprehensive exploration of contemporary terrorism that helps develop knowledge and skills needed to critically assess terrorism and terrorist incidents.
Athena Title
Managing Disaster 4
Prerequisite
DMAN 7100 and DMAN 7200
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
1. Provide students with a fundamental definition of terrorism 2. Provide an overview of historical and modern terrorism, including the causes of terrorism 3. Be able to assess national and international terrorist organizations 4. Public health response to terrorist events 5. Introduce methods of counterterrorism and strategies in homeland security pre and post terrorist event 6. Explore the future of terrorism
Topical Outline
• Terrorism: A Conceptual Review -Terrorism: First Impressions -The Nature of the Beast: Defining Terrorism -Beginnings: The Causes of Terrorism • The Terrorists -Terror from Above: Terror by the State -Terror from Below: Terrorism by Dissidents -Violence in the Name of Faith: Religious Terrorism -Violent Ideologies: Terrorism from the Left and Right -Terrorist Spillovers: International Terrorism -Emerging Terrorist Environments: Gender-Selective Political Violence and Criminal Dissident Terrorism • The Terrorist Trade and Counterterrorism -Tools of the Trade: Tactics and Targets of Terrorists -The Information Battleground: Terrorist Violence and the Role of the Media -The American Case: Terrorism in the United States • Securing the Homeland -Counterterrorism: The Options -A New Era: Homeland Security -What’s Next: The Future of Terrorism
Syllabus
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