A History of Terrorism
UndergraduateMAQ-MHIX20002020
Course information for 2020 intake
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 18 weeks
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
A History of Terrorism
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- Analyse the nature of terrorism in the modern period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
- Apply key scholarly and historiographical concepts related to an understanding of modern terrorism in assessment tasks.
- Interpret relevant primary sources and secondary materials relevant to the history of terrorism.
- Construct evidence-based arguments about the history of terrorism in written and oral, visual or digital forms.
- French Revolutionary Terror
- Nineteenth century Russia
- Fin de siècle Terror
- Red Terror: the Soviet Union
- Fascist Terror: Nazi Germany
- Ideological Terror 1960s-1970s
- Nationalism and Terror
- Islamist terror
- Far Right Terror
Few issues demand as much attention, in the military, political, and media spheres, as terrorist attacks. Each new attack unleashes a torrent of questions: how can attacks be prevented, who is responsible? Since the French Revolution terrorism has shadowed the unfolding of the modern world. Developing political and economic systems have generated violent reactions; regimes have resorted to terror as instruments of suppression and control. Terrorists have struck in the name of nationalism, religion and anarchy. In this course, we will examine terrorism historically as a form of insurgency that allowed violent extremists a low-cost route to political influence. We will address the historic evolution of terrorism since the nineteenth century, and government's efforts to counteract it. The modern world cannot be understood without exploring the nature of terrorism, and the unit will examine manifestations of terrorism in western and non-western contexts, from the Jacobins to Islamic State.
- Diagnostic assignment (20%)
- Presentation (15%)
- Research Essay (40%)
- Exam (25%)
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