College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences 2015-2016 Catalog

281 natural disasters. There will be interactive exercises as well as a case study approach used. Offered Winter term. NSAM 6640 – Critical Incidents Response This course will provide an in-depth analysis and understanding of inter-group and intra- group dynamics associated with the organizational response to critical incidents such as hostage/barricade management, terrorism, kidnapping, natural and other disasters, and tactical operations, which comprises the negotiations team, the tactical team, and the on- scene commander, as well as coordination of efforts with government, organizations, and the community. Topics include: inter-group and intra-group conflict intervention and communication strategies, negotiation, tactical, and command protocols, hostage/barricade resolution continuum options, and case studies. Offered Summer term. NSAM 6641 – Conflict and Crisis Negotiation This course will provide an overview of law enforcement crisis negotiation and its application to crisis situations, such as domestic violence encounters on an individual level and hostage/barricade encounters on an organizational level. Lecture, expert demonstration, and interactive negotiation with role play will provide an experiential learning environment for understanding and applying active listening skills, empathy, rapport, influence, and behavioral change concepts to conflict and crisis situations. Offered Fall term. NSAM 6643 – Social Aspects of Terrorism This course will examine a wide range of different cultures and societies with a special emphasis placed upon political violence. Regions explored are: Basque country, Chechnya, Colombia, Northern Ireland, Palestine, Sri Lanka, and Zimbabwe. Of particular importance are the dimensions of terrorism, trauma, and violence through an understanding of colonialism, discourse, history, material culture, media, rebellion, revolution, and separatism. Additionally, the course will focus upon the causes of 9/11 and the recent fomentation of international terrorism. By exploring the subject of terrorism form an anthropological perspective will demonstrate the complexities and various interpretations concerning the political uses through the appreciation of interdisciplinary analysis. NSAM 6650 – International negotiation: Principles, Process and Issues This course describes and analyzes the major principles, processes and issues of international negotiation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It seeks to provide students with the analytical tools skills required to explain and predict the outcome of specific (bilateral or multilateral) negotiations through the study of various explanation factors, including: stability and change in the structure of the existing "international system"; the individual characteristics of the nations-states parties (power/capabilities, interests, culture/values, negotiating styles, etc.; the strategic and tactical moves of those considered as "key players"; as well as the role of smaller states and non-state actors NSAM 6651 – Theories of Ethnicity & Nationalism Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism: This course is foundational for theoretical understandings of ethnicity and nationalism. Students will analyze general theories from key debates and critically examine various points of view in relation to defining boundaries, conflict, context, difference, identity, migration, minority/majority, race and tribalism in regard to ethnicity, as well as community, fantasy, ideology, neo-Marxism, modernism, perennialism, political, primordialism, semiotic, sociocultural, socioeconomic, imagination, invention, and tradition in association with nationalism and nationalists, and the entwinement and interrelation between all of these prevalent notions and themes. Upon completion of the course students will better grasp ethnic belonging, ethno-nationalist