JLC-386 Terrorism, Extremism and Education (3)

This course examines instances and theories of national, ideological, ethnic, religious, and political extremism and their relationship to education. Students develop a working definition of extremism and then analyze how state authorities, rebel movements, extremist associations, and ethnic and religious organizations mobilize youth populations, shape public narratives, and use, manipulate, or abuse ideologies that lay claim to collective identities during the development and transformation of extremist movements. The course pays particular attention to the ways that educational systems have worked to foment and prevent extremism in comparative, historical, and cross-national contexts, as well as to efforts to combat extremism outside of formal educational systems. The course focuses on extremism and hate incidents in U.S. education with additional case study material including Germany under Nazism and right-wing extremism in contemporary Germany; child soldiers and education in post-conflict societies; and education and religious extremism. Crosslist: EDU-386 and SOCY-386. Usually Offered: spring.