Development and description of an interdisciplinary course on the science of terrorism

Author

Page, E.J. ; Allen, L.A. ; Gray, J.P. ; Bateman, S.M.

Author_Institution

United States Coast Guard Acad., New London, CT, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

9-9 March 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The development and description of an interdisciplinary, team taught course on the Science of Terrorism is presented. Faculty members from Physics, Chemistry, and Marine and Environmental Sciences collaborated to design a course introducing students to the science behind bioterrorism, chemical and toxicological terrorism, nuclear and radiological terrorism and cyberterrorism as well as epidemiological and GIS models. The course concludes with a simulated terror attack for which students need to use their knowledge of the science of terrorism to defuse.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; educational courses; geographic information systems; terrorism; GIS models; bioterrorism; chemical terrorism; chemistry; cyberterrorism; environmental sciences; epidemiological models; interdisciplinary course; marine sciences; nuclear terrorism; physics; radiological terrorism; team taught course; terrorism science; toxicological terrorism; Biology; Chemicals; Diseases; Materials; Physics; Terrorism; Weapons; Interdisciplinary course; epidemiology; science; terrorism;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), 2013 IEEE

Conference_Location

Princeton, NJ

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-5622-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISECon.2013.6525224

Filename

6525224