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OLET2120: US Violence: Terror, Guns, Punishment
2025 unit information
Centred on the War on Terror, this OLE introduces students to the political, cultural, and economic issues that drive American violence. Students will identify the relations between the history of American empire, global terrorism, and the privatisation of state violence. Students will study and interpret cultural texts such as Hollywood and television, propaganda from state and non-state violent actors and groups, and first-hand accounts of war. Building on this global scene of American violence, students will critique the use of the death penalty in the US, and categorise the interpretations of the Second Amendment in relation to the debate on gun control.
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| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | United States Studies Centre |
| Credit points | 2 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Identify the cultural, political, and economic issues that drive the War on Terror
- LO2. Interpret relevant written, oral, visual, material, cartographic, and digital texts
- LO3. Illustrate connections between American foreign and immigration policies and the global war on terror
- LO4. Describe the use of the death penalty by American states
- LO5. Interpret the history, and categorise interpretations of, the Second Amendment of the US Constitution
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Semester 2 2025
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Online | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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