HIST 0712 - A GLOBAL HISTORY OF TERRORISM

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will acquaint students with the remarkably long, diverse and widespread use of strategies of terror to advance political, economic, religious and social agendas. Our analysis will focus upon terror from below that is terror by non-state actors; will range from ancient Greece to the present; and will touch upon every inhabited continent. Using examples from many societies, we will discover that the human motivations for terrorist acts have changed little, but that their expression has changed a great deal, from the days of the Spartacus slave revolt, to the calculated terror of the Algerian revolution, to the media-centered “madmen strategy” of Al-Qaeda and Isis. Our organization will be roughly chronological, and will be combined with a typology of different kinds of terrorism. This inherently comparative approach will enable us to make this a true world history course, moving with ease from place to place, movement to movement, while still having a solid temporal and analytical framework to keep the material coherent.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Global Issues General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Phil. Think or Ethics General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Ethical/Policy GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.

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