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Official Course Syllabi 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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LAWE 1500 - Analysis of Terrorism

Credit Hours: 3.00


Prerequisites: None

A detailed examination of the causes, phenomena, and significance of terrorism of all types, including those which are revolutionary in origin, as well as state, liberation, and criminal. The workshop, having provided a sound knowledge of the origins, leadership and policies of terrorism, will monitor its path and practices in the world of today as well as providing some assessment of the threat of tomorrow. By means of the workshop approach, each student will learn to track the activities of the various terrorist groups.

Contact Hours: 3
Billable Contact Hours: 3
OUTCOMES AND OBJECTIVES
Outcome 1: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to define terrorism and identify topologies of terrorism.

Objectives: The student will:

  1. Identify arguments of elements to be included in the definition of terrorism.
  2. Define political as it is used in the term terrorism.
  3. Identify the ways in which terrorism can be a tactic of the revolutionary and a strategy of the state.
  4. Identify left and right wing ideology.
  5. Identify the elements of terrorism from above and below.
  6. Identify the elements of nationalistic groups.
  7. Identify the elements of crusaders, criminals and crazies.
  8. Identify the elements of state-sponsored terrorism.

Outcome 2: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify the legal and political aspects of terrorism.

Objectives: The student will:

  1. Identify the issues concerning political asylum.
  2. Define political offense exception to extradition.
  3. Identify the elements of crimes under which terrorists may be prosecuted.
  4. Identify issues related to formulation of a national policy toward terrorism.
  5. Identify the weaponry of terrorism.

Outcome 3: Upon completion of this course, students will be able to identify methods of counter-terrorism.

Objectives: The student will:

  1. Define counter-terrorism.
  2. Identify issues related to intelligence oversight.
  3. Define the role of the media.
  4. Identify the elements of hostage-taking and hostage negotiation.
  5. Identify the elements of narco-terrorism.
  6. Identify the victimization process.

COMMON DEGREE OUTCOMES
(Bulleted outcomes apply to the course)

  • 1. The graduate can integrate the knowledge and technological skills necessary to be a successful learner.
  • 2. The graduate can demonstrate how to think competently.
  1. The graduate can demonstrate how to employ mathematical knowledge.
  • 4. The graduate can demonstrate how to communicate competently.
  • 5. The graduate is sensitive to issues relating to a diverse, global society.

COURSE CONTENT OUTLINE
  1. The Criminology and Controversy of Terrorism
    1. Definitions, Tactics, and Behavior
    2. Origins of Modern Terrorism
    3. Changing Group Structures
    4. Advent of Religious Terrorism
    5. Financing Terrorism
    6. Types of Modern Terrorism
  2. International Terrorism
    1. Evolution of Jihadist Networks
    2. The Umbrella Effect
    3. The Question of Israel and Palestine
    4. Middle Eastern Terrorism in Metamorphosis
    5. Nationalistic and Ethnic Terrorism
    6. Ideological Terrorism
  3. Domestic Terrorism
    1. Conceptualizing Terrorism in America
    2. Terrorism in the United States
  4. Issues in Homeland Security
    1. In Search of Homeland Security
    2. Protecting the Homeland and Protecting Civil Liberties
    3. The Bureaucracy of Homeland Security
    4. The Media: Affecting Terrorism and Homeland Security

Primary Faculty
Hliebay, Eugene
Secondary Faculty

Associate Dean
Lopez, Michael
Dean
Mirijanian, Narine



Official Course Syllabus - Macomb Community College, 14500 E 12 Mile Road, Warren, MI 48088



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