A History of Terrorism

About this subject

• What you'll learn

  On successful completion of this subject, you will be able to:

  1. Analyse the nature of terrorism in the modern period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
  2. Apply key scholarly and historiographical concepts related to an understanding of modern terrorism in assessment tasks.
  3. Interpret relevant primary sources and secondary materials relevant to the history of terrorism. 
  4. Construct evidence-based arguments about the history of terrorism in written and oral, visual or digital forms.

• Topics covered

• Description

• Assessments

• Textbooks

• About Macquarie University

Entry requirements

Others

40cp at 1000 level or above OR (10cp in HIST or MHIS or POL or POIR or MHIX or POIX units)

Additional requirements

• Other requirements -

  Students who have an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion under Macquarie University's Academic Progression Policy are not permitted to enrol in OUA units offered by Macquarie University. Students with an Academic Standing of Suspension or Exclusion who have enrolled in units through OUA will be withdrawn.

Study load

0.125 EFTSL

This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.

Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.

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