Whatever your plans for the summer, whether you’ll be in Washington or home, working or interning, traveling abroad or spending time at the beach or elsewhere, you can still take AU courses and further your education. You can earn three or more credits, without ever coming to campus, by taking one of the nine courses AU is offering this summer using distance education technology. These courses will be taught entirely online by fulltime AU faculty. You won’t ever have to sign on to the course at a specific time of day, so you will be free to schedule your own class participation and study time each day. Using asynchronous technology created by Blackboard, Inc., the leading provider of Internet infrastructure software for distance education, and other technology that is also easily accessible from anywhere in the world, AU is pleased to offer the following full-credit AU courses for credit toward your degree at AU and also transferable to other colleges and universities. Tutorial instruction on Blackboard and any other technologies used will be provided to all students prior to beginning of class. For more information and to register, please visit the AU Distance Education website.


JLS-496/JLS-696 Justice in the Face of Terror
N01L 06/06/05 – 07/29/05
With Margaret A. Weekes
3 credits

Throughout history, and particularly since 9/11/01, society has grappled with the critical issues of the construction and maintenance of a just society in the face of terror. This course studies issues of justice and responses to terror from the perspectives of history, ethics, literature, politics and law. The aim of the course is to give students the tools necessary to understand responses to terrorism and to begin to evaluate the justice of societal responses. Students will study justice in the context of specific situations of terror and develop frameworks for just responses to terror and the creation of a new and more just society. Students will analyze vengeance and retaliation, competing attempts at legal and social control, and the roles of compassion and understanding in the quest for justice. Students will also be encouraged to analyze the significance for justice of the positioning of women and groups marginalized or conceptualized as “other,” because of race, religion, ethnic origin or other reasons.


JLS-496/JLS-696 The Road to Global Justice: From Nuremburg to Baghdad
N02L 06/06/05 – 07/29/05
With Carolyn Cohan
3 credits

This course includes a general survey of the origins of post-WII international human rights law, its philosophical underpinnings, and the current treaties and international norms that are recognized as significant in this field. The course goes beyond the standard treatment of the subject to focus on current controversies in international human rights law, particularly those that have engaged the US or with respect to which the US position is seen as contrary to the positions taken by most other Western nations. Such issues include criminal investigation and prosecution of terrorist-related figures, extradition, the U.S. opposition to the International Criminal Court, and the federal courts’ decisions concerning immigrants in the U.S. The strong focus on current issues lends itself well to the online format since much of the material needed to study and discuss these issues is available only online and is not yet collected in textbooks.


JLS-596 Terrorism Prevention
N01
With Brian Forst
3 credits

This course focuses on aggression, crime and terrorism –commonalities and differences—in order to identify and develop effective interventions against terrorism. Primary topics include: the Clash of Civilizations model and how it has shaped terrorism policy; the role of fear and its relationships with actual perceived risk and media; and the prospect of dialogue and mutual understanding among civilizations.