| TERRORISM | |
Saturday, June 28, 2008 9 a.m. to noon Cost: $50 Instructor: Dennis Showalter Location: Palmer Hall, 1025 N. Cascade Ave., Room 217 In an election year seven years after 9/11, the issue of terrorism continues to overshadow America’s domestic and foreign policies. What is terrorism? What are its causes? How is it best addressed? These questions inform candidates’ speeches, talk shows, and Internet blogs alike. This community course proposes to provide material for thought and discussion in three contexts. It will first consider terrorism as a doctrine and a tactic. It will then survey the history and discuss the evolution of modern terrorism from the French Revolution to the end of the 20th century. Finally it will examine the genesis of the 9/11 attack, and the responses to it. While that section will focus on the US, experiences elsewhere, particularly in Europe, will be incorporated. Dennis Showalter, professor of history at Colorado College, is considered one of the top military historians in the country today. A guest lecturer at West Point, the Air Force Academy and the Marine Corps University, Showalter is also past president of the Society for Military History. Showalter has taught at Colorado College since 1969, and has won several awards, most recently the 2005 Samuel Eliot Morison Prize by the Society for Military History. He has published over 23 books and countless articles on military history. Professor Showalter received the Gresham Riley Achievement Award from Colorado College in 2005. |
