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Teaching about Terrorism: Lessons Learned at SWOTT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2009

Gregory D. Miller
Gregory D. Miller
Affiliation:
The University of Oklahoma
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Abstract

This article discusses some of the challenges and lessons for teaching undergraduate-level courses related to terrorism. The author outlines some of the primary issues that instructors can expect to face, and provides strategies for dealing with several of these challenges. The goal is to relay useful information to those teaching, or planning to teach, courses on terrorism, with the larger hope of strengthening the community of terrorism scholars and possibly developing some best practices for teaching courses on terrorism.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , October 2009 , pp. 773 - 779
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 2009

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