ASST 327
Violence, Terrorism, and Collective Healing
Last Offered Fall 2007
Division II
Cross-listed SOC 327
This course is not offered in the current catalog

Class Details

What do terrorism and violence mean and how do we think of its perpetrators? This course will investigate the concepts of terror and violence, and how they can be made into collectively recognized and remembered events. Participants will engage with relevant works in order to question and debate what terrorism and violence mean and how these concepts are addressed by various disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. Further, this course will investigate how representations of terrorism and violence are connected to the themes of: securing political power, collective resistance, community, and international power relations. Crucially, the course seeks to enable participants to critically reflect upon the publicly available perspectives on terrorism and violence. The course will encourage the interpretation, discussion, and writing on the following themes:`tradition’ and religion; militancy and nationalism; public spaces and resistance; the role of emotions in violent movements; community, gender and collective recovery; and memory, orchestrating public panic, and war. Our materials combine analytical, historical, theoretical and literary texts, and films; all of these speak to the themes of this course and its participants will be encouraged to interpret, critique, and connect the existing arguments made in the course materials.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 19
Expected: 15
Class#: 1165
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: full participation and attendance in class; two oral presentations; one 4-page response paper; one paper topic proposal; and a term paper
Prerequisites: none; open to non-majors
Enrollment Preferences: Anthropology and Sociology majors
Distributions: Division II
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ASST 327 Division II SOC 327 Division II
Attributes: INST South + Southeast Asia Studies Electives

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